Challenges

It's a strange and eerie world we are living in right now.  This Covid-19 virus has people crazy.  Everything is shut down, including the one animal clinic that we have in Rochester that the cats have relied on for so many years to get them spayed and neutered.  The only doctor we have at this clinic is self-quarantined due to possible exposure to this virus.

All I can do is go out and feed them.  If I do find kittens at some point, they will be rescued and treated as I would have in the past, but momma will continue to produce babies until she can get spayed.  Daddies will continue to keep getting the females pregnant until we can get them in for neuter.  

Luckily, my travels so far this year have not encountered any babies.  I have, however, seen a lot of 'hookups' with the males and females roaming the streets.  We know, in a few months, there will be babies born somewhere, either under a porch, or in a dilapidated garage, or even on someone's open porch in the city.  

The weather is still cold enough that most of the newborn babies will not survive.  They will die a painful death.  That is why the importance of spay and neutering is so real.  And right now, we can't even do that.  

Once this Corona epidemic dies down, let's pray that things return to normal. We must keep fighting the good fight in spaying and neutering these cats.    The suffering is great, and I won't always be there to feed them.  As much as I wish I could, I just can't.  

Stay well.

Have a nice day.

"Being challenged in life is inevitable,

being defeated is optional."