I was dog dead tired last night. I had made the trip to Snipped with 14 cats and instead of napping during the day, at some point, as usual, I worked doing laundry at the clinic, hoping they could get a break and not be there til 9:00 p.m. again. I got up at 3:30 in the morning, after five hours of sleep, to begin the day

Five Crawfordsville ferals were fixed today, four of them girls. All three brown tabby tux girls were quite ill, but we decided to fix them anyhow, since this was their only chance. All survived and now will be housed and given some tender loving after care including antibiotics and wormer. In addition, Bitsy had a heart

Early morn at the Elk rest area. Looking west from Elk area.Highway 101 Bridge into N. Bend.Low tide in Empire. Rebar Creature. Rebar rock. Low tide in Empire. Kelp exposed at low tide. Looking across the bay at low tide. Bridge into N. Bend. Buses through the bushes. Crows at low tide. Birds at low ti

I got deflated. My joy, that is, my sense of accomplishment with those extremely difficult Albany side by side colonies. Both have been difficult to trap. One because of the schedules and sideways location of where the cats are fed. The two adults work long hours at early shift jobs and have kids and are chronically wor

I took 16 local cats to be fixed yesterday. Well, 14 actually. I had to find someone to take the other two to Heartland, where they were fixed. Both of those were ferals from the Albany Side by Side colonies. A KATA volunteer agreed to take them to Heartland early morning and pick them up after they were fixed. Flawed,

Face off Gray male, right ear tattered and beat up from fighting but not ear tipped.Spicer Origins long hair black tux. The cat is large, but I'm not so sure it is not a girl. The nose and feet are smallish. She or he has a cold.I caught two more cats at the two block apart colonies in Albany. I caught that big gray face

The cats at Spicer origins are hungry. I've had no luck with trapping there, last couple of days. This a.m., I left out some food and texted the caretaker asking him to feed again. Otherwise, they end up dead out on the road, crossing into the fields, trying to find food. I ran into the big problem male at the other colo

Last kitten caught at Spicer colony. Mom still needs caught.This morning, as now is my ritual, I get up at 5:00 a.m., dress while hot water is heating on the stove, grind my coffee beans, and sit the plastic filter atop my cup. I then add a brown cone shaped paper filter and a couple teaspoons of freshly ground coffee, pou

Click post title to go to the story. A Monroe rabbit and Guinea Pig breeder decides it's not making her money and turns over dozens of animals to Heartland.Breeders suck in so many ways.Last year, many cat rescuers/fixers/shelters called it "the year of the Siamese" because so many of the strays and even feral co

Here is a list of things I wish I had done in my life. Some things I might still be able to do! What is your list?--Become an astro physicist--Travel into space--Build a completely off the grid sustainable cabin, producing my own energy, catching and using my own water, using a compost toilet and growing my own food, trad

I went swimming today at the Albany pool. I had a blast. The woman invited me whose three teens I trapped a month and a half ago. There was an exercise class she attends, but I slipped over and swam a few laps.It was so fun. But afterwards, within minutes of exiting, my skin began to prickle and itch. My eyes went red an

Grumbly with his mouth full of cat toy.Fantasia, of the Quirky Sisters, likes her basket bed, a prized fought over bed space.Best friends and cousins, Suri and Grumbly Rumby.The other half of the Quirkies, Echo.Gretal, doing so much better with all teeth gone.Cougie, one of the business cats.The gray and whites--Honey on th

I have been catching cats to be fixed at two locations about a block apart in Albany.So far, with the latest catch, a little female, I've caught nine. There are at least five more between the two locations. At least.That's a lot of good fixing done for one block!Six have been males and three have been females.This is the

There have been two terrible instances of children swept away in Oregon waters recently. In Albany, a man drove too close to a swollen creek and his car was swept into the creek. Inside the car, besides the man, were his young son, his girlfriend and her toddler. New details have emerged about how the young woman, only 1

This woman took in a feral kitten. She was very ill. I went over the same day, trapping other cats there. She was holding the kitten. I was shocked then, because the kitten was severely dehydrated and the woman had not noticed.I went home and got some fluids, gave her 30 cc, told the woman to give her that amount two mo

It's ugly. They turn to hair and beard cutting on each other.The horror. These people must be stopped. Badly cut hair is an atrocity, as we well know.Click post title to read article.The FBI and most law enforcement, with shaved heads and no beards, should not fear. But the rest of us.......

My power bill is high. It's much higher than for this billing period last year although I used less power and the average temperature was lower than for the same period last year.My brother explained it this way: The more consumers conserve power to save money, the higher utility companies will raise rates, to make up the

As I was driving home, from the Snipped clinic, looking at all the different shades of green alone, along the route, with no way to really name them, other than "shade of green", it came to me, we need far more color names and that we are quite limited in our color vocabulary. I decided to start with green and beg

Nightshot of Jackson street high water closure last Thursday.Night shot, auto setting, barricades for high water a block from me.The elk rest area, on 38, flooded out. Where are the elk? Probably in the hills.At the elk place, just outside Reedsport, which was flooded.Boredom at the Snipped clinic. I was going to sleep i

Two days, that's all he got in his new home before they gave up. Sad! They knew what he was like and thought they could manage. I suggested they adopt Suri with him, but they didn't want three cats. Two days later they wanted him gone. Only I wasn't home yesterday. I was at the S/nipped clinic, with ten local cats be

Click the post titles to go to a local paper story with links two slideshows. One is photos of local flooding, including many of Scio's major problems with Thomas Creek running down Main street.Also shown is flooding on Conifer Blvd. in Corvallis, along with Lancaster and Cambridge streets, off Conifer.There are a few phot

I took the three ferals from Spicer Origins up to the FCCO clinic this a.m., to be fixed. All three turned out to be boys!!!Water in Albany has greatly receded since yesterday. Thankfully.A child and a very young mother, only 18, died in the car that was swept into Periwinkle creek from the Mega Foods parking lot. That i

I went to check traps and had to drive through high water in three places on Three Lakes. It was running across the road. But that was nothing.I come back 34th street and hit high water. I made it through that patch, but the next was much longer and deeper. I elected to turn around. I have a low car. The air intake ha

This is why I called him Grumbly Rumby--the attitude he had at first. He was mad at the world. He'd growl, rumbling low. He grumbled if I picked him up. He changed. Now he'll likely get a new name with his new home. He'll always be Grumbly Rumby to me.Grumbly's gone. He's been adopted. Hopefully it will work out. H

I took these photos earlier, of my yard, and of a flooded parking lot on Three Lakes. I then spent two hours digging ditches to try to drain water out of the cat yard so my garage wouldn't flood. It worked for awhile, but has filled up again. There's no place for the water to go. Three Lakes Road flooded parking lot. No

Grumbly has a great home option in Philomath. He's leaving us this afternoon. They have another cat, a Siamese girl, and are just great people, the kind you dream of adopting one of your cats. I just hope he behaves the first few days, which are rough on a cat going to a new home. I am sad because I will miss him, but I

The snow melted to slush and the rain began. That was last night. Now the winds are whipped up and scheduled to hit 100 mph gusts, to the west, on the coast.Nothing new here. In fact, many Oregonians, at the mere mention of a big windstorm, take off for the coast to watch it come in. Ducks to the core, we are here. We

The three Vancouveria youtube episodes are so funny. I LOVE Portlandia, although I don't get the channel that airs the series, that spoofs Portland, Oregon culture. My brother records them and I watch them there. Now, on Youtube, there is Vancouveria, Portlandia with a Vancouver twist. Vancouver is working class and cons

We rarely get snow here in the mid valley region of Oregon. So when we do, even if it's a tiny amount and doesn't stay long, we go nuts! We usually get a lot of snow in the coast range, to the west, and the Cascade Mountains, to the east. But this year, we've had very little even there, causing concern for summer water s

I am fed up with the stinky air here, where I live near all the industrial plants. It's disgusting many nights. I can't even breathe in sometimes. It's gotten much worse, too. There was a different even more awful smell tonight, coming with the wind blowing from the south. Probably a 34th street plant emission smell.