Blog 12/28/15 to 01/03/16

                              HAPPY NEW YEAR!   

Relocations

Our Cats after Release

December Closeout

2015 Closeout

Bad Calls/Emails:  Corsicana Cats

BMG (Bitch/Moan/Groan):  6-Year-Old Declawed Cat

OMG (Oh My God):  "Jimmy" - Katrina Cat

Relocations and In Take:   We had 3 placements this week.    

     2     Barn in Denton (Koby, Ariel)

     1     Workshop in Frisco (Amelia)

 

Our Cats after Release:  No equipment picked up this week.   

December Closeout:  We Placed 21 in 7 North Texas counties:

Collin              Denton            Hunt                Wichita

Dallas              Ellis                 Tarrant

2015 Closeout:  We placed 550 in 2015.  That sounds great until you see that we placed 761 in 2014…so we are 211 less that the year before.  Got to blame that on Mother Nature – rain, heat, and then more rain!   I also had some surgery in December where we also lost 2 weeks of placements.  It is always something!    

Bad Calls/EMAILS:  Corsicana Cats

I am having problems getting folks to trap and get cats to me.  When a guy called from Corsicana with a story about a neighbor who moved and did not take her cats, I told him to pack them up and bring them to Lewisville – thinking this will be like everyone else!  NOT!  New Year’s day he showed up with 9 cats with only one that is fixed.  AND most are friendly!  I will get them vet’ted this week and traded to adoption groups.  One of his other neighbors does not feed his dogs and they were coming to his house to EAT THE CATS!   We will find them a safer place, for sure!   More next week….  

BMG:  6-Year-Old Declawed Cat

This young woman got a cat from her sister in 2009.  He is about 6 now and is declawed.  She moved to a new house and he was nervous.  SO what did she do?  She took him to Animal Services!   WHAT?  There are 400 adoption groups in the DFW area and she takes a declawed cat to animal services.   IDIOT!  I am sorry this nice cat ended up with such an uncaring person.  The more time I spend in rescue the more I hate people.       

OMG:  "Jimmy" - Katrina Cat

I featured “Jimmy” in our end-of-the-year letter.  Jimmy was from New Orleans and came to us following Katrina.  He passed away in June without making it to the 10-year anniversary of the hurricane.  He survived for 3 months in that slug before being trapped by one of the Alley Cat Allies volunteers.  Barn Cats took 54 cats from New Orleans in the 6 months following the disaster.  Jimmy stayed at my house and was very happy with his own “colony” inside.  He was feral as they come but got along fine in the house.  I miss Jimmy!

Thanks for following the Barn Cats Blog.          Peg