TNR Tuesday

It is very difficult to trap two cats on Tuesdays when you still have to feed over 70 cats at 19 different locations all within an hour and half.  If you place the trap at one spot, you have to go to the next one to feed, come back, check on trap, go do another spot, come back, check on trap.  If there is nothing biting, still, you have to move the trap to another spot, and then go and feed at another spot.  Its a lot of running around, and leaving the trap unattended for a short while, which is OK, but its the running around.  I had the trap set up at two different locations - one at Baldwin, and one on Pennsylvania and Fourth, but they are too smart there.  I knew I could grab one of the kittens that were born last spring, because he lets me pet him now after I place the food and he is eating, the one on Parsells behind the house there.  That is how I got this guy this morning.  He was upset, but I reassured him all would be fine.  He was going to the doctor, he would be neutered so that he can't make babies, and given shots to make him well, and then I would let him back with this mom, sister and brother.  All of whom were spayed and neutered.

Mom cat Penny, the one that was rescued from the basement with her five newborn kittens on Karnes Street will be spayed today also.  It was discovered that she has worms.  Totally gross.  Nevertheless, her kittens have them too, obviously.  She is with three of them at a foster, and I have three of them, one being Peppercorn from another mother.  My three went to the vet yesterday and had a kitten wellness check where they were given deworming medicine, so hopefully Arnie will begin to grow big and strong now!  He is the runt of the litter.  This whole fiasco is costing me a fortune.  I have asked the man to help with finances, it the man in Arizona who's mother is the one that he asked for help for, with her coming in from Henrietta to feed the ferals, with her house being vacant and up for sale (kitty stuck in basement!).  Habitat for Cats have taken care of spaying/neutering the ferals outside, and I have undertaken to care for the mother and kittens.  I haven't heard a word from him, which I am disappointed about.

I went back to check on the food I dumped on the grass under the fence on Niagara, and it was still there on my way to work.  What I am concerned about is the ants.  They will out marching soon, with the warm weather.  Whats the point of placing food on the ground for the cats to eat it if its covered with ants?

That's all I have today folks.  Its never a dull moment.

Have a great day!

"Don't mistake my kindness for weakness.  I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me."