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So, I was given four spots at the clinic this morning to
bring in four cats off the street to get spayed and neutered. This is when I have to set four traps around
the locations of where I go each morning, 19 different locations to be
exact. I place a smelly tuna inside the
trap, and when they go in and step on a trip plate, the door snaps and closes
them in. The cats are quite frightened
to you don’t want to leave the traps unattended too long. They calm down immediately when you place a
blanket over the trap to make it quiet and dark for them.
Now, knowing that I have to set four traps is stressful
enough, let alone still feed at those locations. So you withhold the food, and set the trap,
drive off, set another, and then another, and then another. At one location there was a raccoon so I had
to skedaddle him off the porch, up a tree he went, and I had to have faith that
it wouldn’t go back on the porch and go in the trap. Waste of tuna, and time. I knew there was a beautiful red male there
that walks right up onto this porch of a vacant house, and its quite friendly,
but ‘felt’ like he was unneutered. In a
perfect world/day, I would rescue this guy.
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| Melville Red |
I had Kings sit on the front porch of a vacant house on
Webster Ave. where I set a trap behind the house. Crazy Marilee has been known to close the
trap if I am not there, so I had him sit there to alert me via cell phone if
she came walking by. She didn’t, and
voila, got one pretty grey/white boy. I
think it’s a boy. And boy have I gotten
THAT wrong before! Oh, PS, I took all
three black kittens to vet on Thursday where they confirmed the sex of
them. Mookie is a girl, Dixie is a
girl, and Bear if a boy. All three are spoken for and will be adopted
when they are a little bigger.
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| Ferndale Crescent TNR |
I raced back to the Melville spot before I headed over to
the ‘back nine’ (across Goodman) and sure enough, there was the sweet red boy inside
the trap. I felt so bad. But off we went to check on the other
two. One was Parsells #2 where they JUST
WONT GO IN. BUT I know there are unneutered
cats there! I decided to leave that one
til the end of my route. It would still
be semi dark. I ran back to the other
trap and they are wise there now also.
(Melville #3). I took the trap,
put the food down, and whisked the empty trap off to Central between 5th
and 6th streets. I know there
are fluffy black cats that I see in the dark there and was hoping to get one of
them.
Nothing. I check on
it after I finished feeding on the ‘back nine’, and raced to Parsells to check
on that, nada, nothing, zippo. And that
was two hours of my time this morning.
Two cats, two hours. I always feel so bad when I have to call the clinic
to tell them that I could not fill the slots they allotted me. And Mom set her trap for the mother cat of
the black kittens out in Webster, and they are on to her also. It’s a sad feeling, knowing you could be trapping
some pregnant or very viral males out there, and you fail at it.
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| SAFFY |
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| HERMIE |
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| CONNOR |
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| POPPY |
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| PARSLEY |
I have four kittens left.
Poppy, Saffy, Tucker and Buster.
All others will be adopted eventually - Parsley, Hermie, Buffy and
Connor are still up for adoption. All
are still coming out of their shells so to speak (Hermie, ha ha!) (Hermit Crab?) J
That’s all I have time for today folks.
More tomorrow.
Have a great day!
"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."
Good morning Janine! Could you please give an update on Connor's health? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteKathy M.