Happy to have the weekend here, though I've got papers to grade and Neo's working on two new paintings--one of our lovely ValGal from here. (check out his site. I think he posted it as a work in progress, which he usually doesn't do.) He'll be on to Amilie and Jewelz some time later this Fall, I think. With the track season over, he's back to the girls! Ha.
A friend in town has arranged for us to take all our outside feral kitties in for spay/neuter and shots with a clinic down in Cape May next week. We'll be able to get the two feral babies we adopted in the summer fixed there, too, though they've already had their shots. In any case, this involves us getting one feral mama cat trapped Wednesday night, and then getting all the kittens rounded up and into carriers that night so they don't have any food, etc., before Thursday morning surgery. We're talking 8 cats altogether. All the kittens will let us pick them up, etc., but this is still going to be one heck of a circus. I have to work Thur., so Neo and the local friend and her husband are transporting all the kitties down there and then back later that afternoon. Then we have to keep EVERYBODY inside in crates until they have healed up a little. This is going to be CRAZY.
Our two babies, Enzo and Sammy, will stay inside with us. We've bought a dog house and got a way to heat shelter for the other 6 cats outside. The kittens were born July 1, so they're still little guys. I think Neo is in love with the runt of the litter and insisting we adopt her, too, which will officially make us both crazy cat people with five inside kitties. The two dogs and the iguana are out numbered (us, too). I'm investing in some of those automated cat litter boxes that are way over priced. Ha.
We had hoped to find homes for the kitties, but our friend, Linda, who is helping with all this said the local ASPCA had taken in 400 kittens this summer and adopted out 37 of them. The rest they are just lining up and killing. We just can't do that, even if we're funding food for a whole cat farm. We just can't put them into that kind of fate.
So---anybody want a kitten?? Ha. I tried every possible avenue I could to find homes for these little guys. Looks like our backyard is it. Thank goodness we got some help with getting them all fixed and getting their shots. We'd never be able to afford all that, and we definitely can't afford any more feral kittens born in our backyard.
I'm a sucker for animals, and I ended up married to a man who is exactly the same way. I thought that was just wonderful, until we got over run with feral kitties. May have been better if at least one of us wasn't so soft-hearted.
The good part--our bichon dog, Nico, is crazy about those outside kittens, and they all love her. They run over to find each other the minute she goes outside. The one time they'd figured out how to get out of our fence and wander our alley way, Nico looked everywhere in the backyard for them--even under the holly tree where they'd been born two months before. She knew all there sleeping spots and where they hid and she checked every single place for them and kept looking at me like "where are they, mom??" She'll be happy to still have her buddies hanging out in our backyard.
Jackson--the bigger dog--on the other hand, is scared to death of these kittens. Ha. Big guard dog, that one!
Wish us luck with the kitty saga. Anyone wanna help me grade papers?????
A friend in town has arranged for us to take all our outside feral kitties in for spay/neuter and shots with a clinic down in Cape May next week. We'll be able to get the two feral babies we adopted in the summer fixed there, too, though they've already had their shots. In any case, this involves us getting one feral mama cat trapped Wednesday night, and then getting all the kittens rounded up and into carriers that night so they don't have any food, etc., before Thursday morning surgery. We're talking 8 cats altogether. All the kittens will let us pick them up, etc., but this is still going to be one heck of a circus. I have to work Thur., so Neo and the local friend and her husband are transporting all the kitties down there and then back later that afternoon. Then we have to keep EVERYBODY inside in crates until they have healed up a little. This is going to be CRAZY.
Our two babies, Enzo and Sammy, will stay inside with us. We've bought a dog house and got a way to heat shelter for the other 6 cats outside. The kittens were born July 1, so they're still little guys. I think Neo is in love with the runt of the litter and insisting we adopt her, too, which will officially make us both crazy cat people with five inside kitties. The two dogs and the iguana are out numbered (us, too). I'm investing in some of those automated cat litter boxes that are way over priced. Ha.
We had hoped to find homes for the kitties, but our friend, Linda, who is helping with all this said the local ASPCA had taken in 400 kittens this summer and adopted out 37 of them. The rest they are just lining up and killing. We just can't do that, even if we're funding food for a whole cat farm. We just can't put them into that kind of fate.
So---anybody want a kitten?? Ha. I tried every possible avenue I could to find homes for these little guys. Looks like our backyard is it. Thank goodness we got some help with getting them all fixed and getting their shots. We'd never be able to afford all that, and we definitely can't afford any more feral kittens born in our backyard.
I'm a sucker for animals, and I ended up married to a man who is exactly the same way. I thought that was just wonderful, until we got over run with feral kitties. May have been better if at least one of us wasn't so soft-hearted.
The good part--our bichon dog, Nico, is crazy about those outside kittens, and they all love her. They run over to find each other the minute she goes outside. The one time they'd figured out how to get out of our fence and wander our alley way, Nico looked everywhere in the backyard for them--even under the holly tree where they'd been born two months before. She knew all there sleeping spots and where they hid and she checked every single place for them and kept looking at me like "where are they, mom??" She'll be happy to still have her buddies hanging out in our backyard.
Jackson--the bigger dog--on the other hand, is scared to death of these kittens. Ha. Big guard dog, that one!
Wish us luck with the kitty saga. Anyone wanna help me grade papers?????
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I was going to post 'Jees luky Dads busted us', until I saw it
was Locked. How did transporting 'blenders full of razor blades' [ catS ]
in a car work out for you? No significant lose of blood?
That is a real wine.
today, i am the dynamic duo of
sleepyhead & lazybones!