07/01/13 to 07/07/13

Relocations and In Take

Our Cats after Release

Phone Calls/Emails You Don’t Want to Get

BMG (Bitch – Moan - Groan)

OMG (Oh My God)

Relocations and In Take:   Placed 2 this week with intake at 11: 

1                    Trade to an adoption group

1                    Kitten to an adoption group

NO PLACEMENTS in barns this week. It has gotten too hot now (like every other July). I did go out on Thursday (July 4^th) with 2 cats to a 25-stall barn and did not leave the cats. Yes – there are 25 stalls but they are in groups of 4 or 5 and all open to the weather. There was no place with good ventilation for a placement this time of the year. BUMMER!     

Our Cats after Release:             

1.      Princeton – This is a group of five siblings that originally came from Feral Friends (Yogi, Vincent, Cheerio, Hanson, Henry). We saw 3 of these cats and the barn folks have seen the other two…so…all good news. 

2.      Melissa – (Eric, Ernie, Linda, Django, Janelle, Jake, Paris) They had all the equipment ready to go and we did not see any of the cats.  However, they have been seen on the property in the evening – which is when you should see them!

3.      Mansfield – Harley, Duffy, Michelle, Mike, Samantha, Patrick, Sithander, Tummus, and Peekaboo were all placed in this barn right behind the owner’s house. I saw 4 cats when I picked up equipment.  =They were all gray tabby cats. Also, there are neighbors just over the fence….so….I am sure they are all around – I just did not see them in the middle of the day.

4.       Southlake – I had two cats that were very bonded – Vinnie and Vicky. I placed them on a back porch in Southlake. Unfortunately, Vinnie had not been seen for several days but Vicky was still around. We did not see her though.

Teddy

 

5.       Rockwall – Teddy is doing GREAT here in Rockwall. He was sitting on top of a stall and I could not get him to turn around. CAMERA SHY! 

         

    6.      Mineral Wells – Great story here:  Aliester and Mr. Moon were placed here – both friendly cats from the Tri-City Shelter. The property owners found Aliester BITTEN BY A RATTLESNAKE over the weekend. They took him to the vet for anti-venom and he is fine.  This picture below was taken 5 days after the treatment. 

               

  

   7.    New Hope – Majesty and Tammy

      were placed here in a playhouse with a ceiling fan! Got a photo of Tammy but Majesty was not around when we were there.                                                             

                                                               

Phone Calls/Emails You Don’t Want to Get: 

I had a call from a shelter in Austin. For those of you that do not know, Austin is about 4 hours from us…and way out of our service area. However, I am going to try and hook them up with a person in Coupland in Williamson County that took some of our cats in April – you never know.

BMG: 

Here we go again – the weather has turned and we are expecting 104 later this week. Placements will be at a standstill unless there are fans, water misters, even maybe air conditioning to keep the cats cool during the time they are caged.                                                                                                                                                                                              

OMG:    

I took a look at an adult cat that had been returned to an adoption group after 4 years and now is aggressive. When adopted, they were a couple and now have 2 kids.  Also, the cat is now declawed. I sent a message to our friend and animal communicator, Barbara Morrison who is in Graham, TX. I asked her to “tune into” that cat and see if she can tell what is bothering it. 

WELL – so, see that you think…

“As I feel it, it was abused many time by the children, I feel using sticks to torment the cat.  It was cornered and then abused to see how it would fight.  It is nuts because they made it nuts.  It feels like they were acting out fighting wild cats in the jungle as a game and with little supervision for the children it went on for a while.  Is this couple fostering children?  Feels like the children are or where not taught how to behave as young children.  Just what I am picking up…I know how the organization has to worry about animals that do not behave properly, and would not be adoptable at this stage, and take up space of adoptable animals.  I had a client a while back that was helping at a human society and there was a cat such as the one you talked about that would attack people who were working there.  So she took it home thinking she could rehab it at her house.  The cat acted not much better and she didn’t know what to do.  At this point her sister, living in a different house took this cat and it does try now and again to be aggressive but has calmed down a lot.”

                        Barbara Morrison   www.animalstalk.com                                                                                                                                                                           

Thanks for following the Barn Cats blog.  See you next week!           Peg