Four are from a new colony, not that far from the homeless camp colony. They're really good looking cats. I had to trap them, however. While my car was open, as I set a trap, a white feral got into my car, then panicked when I came up to the open back. He was on my dash, then tried to break through a front window. It was ki

The old couple caught the old mother, who is at least ten, and been a kitten factory since six months of age. She was owned by an older man, Jonesy, the Sprite Oldies, call him, who never got her fixed and finally died, leaving her on her own. Finally, this old kitty will get spayed. I told the Sprite Oldies, she'll prob

Click post title to go to the story, about a guy shooting into trailers at Heatherdale, hitting one person, who also had a warrant on him, although the police do not believe he was the intended target.Heatherdale is where I got about 90 cats fixed and where Comet comes from. There are some really nice people who live there

One of my youtube subscribers sent me the video above. In it, Keifer Sutherland introduces a speech made by his grandfather called Mouse Land. Animations have been added.

Click the post title to go to another reason medical costs are skyrocketing. This machine, while a lot of fun, cost a whole lot of money. I'm sure the hospital felt they had to purchase it to stay competitive. But there are some statements in the article that don't really jive, like this type of surgery reducing time spent

Starr, from the homeless camp, and Teddy's sister.Shady, from the BS colony. The BS (Big Situation or Bullshit colony) was located amongst houses along a short dead end street outside Albany where I got about 140 cats fixed, rehoming many. I still have Mops, Buffy and Shady from the BS colony here.Shaulin, still here, fro

Crusty is still here. I am not comfortable with taking him back, so far. The woman who had fed the cats really didn't want me to turn him loose near her trailer, which is akin to dumping him. I am not happy about this whole situation. I do not want another cat here, am completely overwhelmed in cats I can't find homes f

Crusty is going back to the trailer park today. I have no place for him. He'll be fed there, as he has been since someone dumped or abandoned him. If I come up with somewhere for him, I know where he'll be. If I come up with a vet willing to try to help his eye condition, and the money to get that done, I know where to

I'm worn out. I had to call the old couple tonight and ask they close the traps an hour earlier than usual. They've showed me up!Of course it was me driving over there after 11:00 last night to pick up their latest catch--yet another black and white.I couldn't sleep in the night, had all this work to do once home finally,

More reports of atrizine, a pesticide widely used in the US, including heavily used on grass seed fields in the mid valley, castrating frogs and turning one in ten of male frogs exposed into females.Sure, further studies are needed, to see if this drug, filtering into our drinking water, or in the dust in the air kicked up

Can you believe, in a recession, Pacific Power wants to stick it to customers by increasing rates by 20%? I can't. What, do they think the rest of us are made of money? You got to be kidding, Pacific Power. Included in their rate hike is an increase in their profit margin.Wrong time, power people. This house is all el

The 86 year olds are showing their age. It's turned into a drive in the fog, trying to trap there. The couple has run out of gas and can't even tell the cats they feed anymore.We'ver retrapped one hungry fearless brown tabby tux three times, since he was neutered last Friday. We've trapped one of the orange boys twice mo

I caught the black long hair in Adair this morning. It is not the neutered relocated boy. Her face is round, nose petite. This is going to be a girl, the third kitten. If she is still alive, I wonder if the fourth kitten they fed is, the gray. Well, we'll see.Also going up today, another male and a female in heat, from

Well, I'm still at it. The Sprite Oldies are still trapping. They keep calling me to say an orange cat is in the trap. I say, "Does it have an eartip?" "No," they say. I go over. And it's the same darn cat again. I show them the eartip and they say, seeming very interested, "Oh, ok, so that's

Tsarina, formerly known as Little Miss Sunshine, whom I dug out of a buried woodpile outside Philomath, is seen in photo above, from her Ridgefield WA home, wishing me a Happy Birthday. Thanks for the photo, Midori!(Love her exotic leopard spotted bedding)Mixed news on two cat situations. Another cat has shown up at the A

Five Albany cats have stepped forward to honor my birthday by each giving up to me their reproductive organs. Actually, there was some coercion involved. Tuna and a live trap. I don't like to call it coercion. It has such negative connotations. ...I like to call them volunteers.Happy Birthday to me....from.......Sprite Old

Click post title to go to a thoroughly disgusting story about corporate buyers taking bribes to purchase rotten tomato's, made into puree and paste and other things sold to unknowing citizens. These people have no ethics or concern for lives.I say execute them all. Like they do in China. How else can such horrible behavior

I hadn't kept track of the date. I thought today was my birthday but it's tomorrow. I don't have any plans except to take cats to the clinic, if I catch them tonight, and pick them up in the evening. I suppose everyone wants to feel special on one day. Maybe not. I wish I could spend time with my family, but that isn'

I took in 38 cats to be fixed in February.Numbers By sex:24 males. 12 Females. 2 of the females were pregnant. One was in heat. One prev. neutered male.Numbers by temperament:20 were feral. 18 were tame.Numbers by County:12 came from Benton County. 26 were from Linn.Numbers by City:3 from Adair. 3 from Corvallis. 6 f

Photos of the two boys fixed Friday from the Sprite Oldies colony. The orange tabby is the second full on orange tabby fixed from there. I also took in an orange tabby tux to be fixed from there--five boys in all so far. There are still five to catch. This is one of two tabbies, one long hair, one short hair, left to ca

Click the post title to go to the local paper story. I posted something about this, from the crime log, awhile back. Now there is another story in the local paper. The FBI is asking the public for help in finding these men, photographed by a security worker at the Detroit Dam. Apparently the nine men were photographing

For decades, I have helped other groups out, when they asked, always thinking they would help me in return, should I need it. That hasn't worked out for me. Except for with Poppa.So a couple months ago, already exhausted, I get a call from KATA. She says an old woman who fed cats had died. The old woman lived not far from t

I got a reprieve. I had resigned myself to taking the tabby tux male, caught by the Sprite Old couple, clear to Portland if I had to, to be fixed today. I didn't want him in a trap in my garage all weekend. I figured I could return the three males fixed yesterday from that street this morning and make sure the old couple un

The old couple are still trapping. I forgot to tell them to close the traps. So they call me tonight, and say they've caught the mother cat, who is a torti. I go over, but it's a brown tabby tux male in the trap. I point this out to them. They peer and peer at the cat, still convinced it's the torti.I went down to say h

This is the black tux stray from the trailer park colony, fixed last Tuesday, whom the caretaker took with three other boys she was feeding to a friend of hers" rural garage, where they will stay and once released, be fed. I hope it works out for those boys, because it is terribly stressful on cats to be relocated and

It's catching up to me. First, I never recovered from trapsing around the homeless camp, after the three not yet fixed teens and others to relocate to a barn home. Fast track onto that, settling in the five camp cats, until they could be relocated.Today, I did take the two younger boys, James and Peter, to the warehouse t

We relocated four of the big boys tonight, the ones she knew were ones she fed and strays. The others will be released back at the park. We discovered the other three, two orange cats and a black one, are tame. The tabby on white needs treatment for his eye infection. The original colony caretaker will do that.If the th

I caught the last male out there at the trailer park. Now, the only one left to catch is the in heat female. Seven big boys were fixed today. The 8th male, fixed in 2008, is in my garage, too. All 8 will be leaving tonight, for their new garage home, which is next to a barn. I hope their containment time up there, does

I was only able to trap three of what appears to be ten cats being fed at the trailer park. A neighbor gave me a good description of all ten. This is a big boy colony, although there is one already fixed female, whom I got fixed a year ago October, when fixing cats for the woman who then died, just after Thanksgiving. I