RATchester!

 

Last week was a zoo.  Very busy with work.  And after work even worse.  But I am back and starting this post with a disgusting picture of a HUGE rat I saw on Niagara and Central.  Yes, we do have Rats, and the city doesn’t seem to have any control with eliminating them, but the cats continue to do their job, and its proven at many of my spots that I feed at.  There is one spot that I go to – on private property that I have permission to be on – that its like a landmine, you have to watch where you step as there are many little dead critters scattered around.  The cats have a ball playing and killing these guys.

The weather has been getting much better.   The mornings are warm and that is good for all the cats out there that have been pregnant and having their babies under porches, or where ever.  At least the poor babies won’t freeze to death.  But if they manage to stay alive past a week or so, they are in danger of predators eating them up.  Please help to spay and neuter.  Do something to end the tragedies happening out there.  Speaking of, I’ve had some great help recently.  A friend drop trapped FOUR pregnant females on Ferndale Crescent, where a huge limb came down two weeks ago from our last windstorm.  Sad to say, but they were spayed.  Do you REALLY thing there needs to be more cats in this world?  Be real, those cute little things grow up to be adult cats.  The kind I find splattered on the streets occasionally, like the one I had to peel off from the middle of Fourth Street two weeks ago.  Esther was with me, and I don’t think she has seen something like that too often.  I wrapped it in a towel and placed it to side of road, there were no bushes or trees, I think she thought I was the monster, but really it was the person that smashed the cats skull in and kept driving.  I see this far too often.

 

The second grey I rescued two weeks ago, that Sheryl is fostering, Melanie, had her babies last weekend (?) - I am so bad.....).  Their eyes are already opening!  She had three – two boys and a girl.  Berry, Buddy and Bunny, all spring themed names.  They are doing great, and mommy Melanie has already been adopted, when babies are weaned of course. 

A shelter on Parsells was removed from behind a house.  Nothing I can do when they are neatly piled up and on the curb when I pull up.  Granted, there were rat holes, but I had been placing poison far down the holes so it would have eventually been cleared up.  But the house’s occupants are a bit nuts, especially the young guy who is up at all hours.  Hanging out the window, even in the dead of winter.  We placed a plate of food and bowl of water behind the house, placed the board against it to keep yesterday’s rain from soaking it as the few resident cats don’t get that on the other side of the back fence, on Melville, is another shelter.  I must try to get them over there.  Cat call.

So, again, please spay and neuter your pets.  I can’t do this forever.

Have a great day!

"The secret of change is to 

focus all of your energy 

not on fighting the old, 

but on building the new."