Relocations and In Take
June Closeout
Our Cats after Release
Miss Kitty
Phone Calls/Emails You Don’t Want to Get
BMG (Bitch – Moan - Groan)
OMG (Oh My God)
Relocations and In Take: Placed 9 this week with intake at 10:
1
Adoption in Red
Oak (Dexter)
2
Backyard in Plano
(Mango, Tippy)
3
Barn in Flower
Mound (Jerry, Johnny, Jenny from Balch Springs)
1
Spay and return
to Barn in New Fairview (Shelley)
2
Bonham Rescue
June Closeout: We just had our BEST JUNE EVER with 78
placements! YEAH! That gives us a YTD total of 352. Only YTD June 2009 has been better with a
total of 389…but we are “in the hunt” this year for sure. That year we placed 84 in January which got
us off to a great start! We placed cats
in the following Texas counties in June:
Collin Denton Grayson Palo Pinto Rockwall
Dallas Ellis Johnson Parker Tarrant
Our Cats after Release:
Palmer – Kelly,
Kirby, and Baxter are still around. When
the property owner opens the doors in the morning, they are seen scurrying
around.
Burleson – Baby
Kitty was all rubs and purrs until she was released. Now he had not seen her but the food
disappears and the poop appears!
Lillian – Bev and
Bobby were a “couple” – gray tabby and an orange tabby. Bev has a cloudy eye so I was careful where I
placed her. The Lillian location is
purr-fect!
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| Bev and Bobby in their new home |
Pottsboro –
Sandy, Butch, Scar, and Simba went to this location 3 weeks ago. Sandy and Butch have been elusive but Scar
and Simba are taking care of business in the auto workshop.
Miss Kitty:
I
took in a 15-year old cat last year who had both of her caregivers diagnosed
with terminal illnesses. Miss Kitty had
lived outside all her life in an insulated feral house. I had her caged in the cat rooms where she
had her own window. I had tried letting
her out but she peed in the big feeder! GROSS! So I tried a smaller bowl
– she peed in that, too! GROSS
AGAIN! She seemed content in that cage
with her own food, water and litter box and I put a heating pad in the carrier
for the winter months. She enjoyed her
canned food each night and immediately gobbled it down. About a week ago, she seemed to be more
unsure on her feet. I moved her into the
family room into a bigger cage so she had more room to move around. When I returned home on Friday from picking
cats up at the Feral Friends clinic, she was barely breathing. I rushed her to All Care where Dr. Clawson
put her to sleep. Miss Kitty will be
missed here at Barn Cats. We had her
almost a year. RIP, Miss Kitty! At least she did not go through another cold
winter living outside
by herself.
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| Miss Kitty |
Phone Calls/Emails You Don’t Want to Get:
Tuesday, I picked
up a cat at All Care in the afternoon then checked messages. A former barn placement in Wise County had
captured a cat that had been reproducing under her house for several
years. It was 4:30 in the afternoon
(RUSH HOUR) and I started out to pick up the cat. She was in the barn in a cage that was
crawling with ants! ALSO, the plastic
tray in the bottom of the cage had warped and the bottom caging was
exposed…much larger spaces and this small-size cat could potentially get out! We scooted it along the ground and carefully
placed it into the Barn Cat truck. NOW –
all I have to do is get in into the house!
I called Neighbor Nancy and we put a big sheet around the cage, securing
the bottom, so she could not get out. We
then put the sheet-wrapped cage onto a cart and rolled it into the house. There we put it into the hallway where we ran
her out of the cage and into a carrier.
Cat Wrangling 101! “Shelley”, the
cat, was tested, spayed, and given her shots on Thursday. We also gave her a Convenia shot (antibiotic)
for the ant bites. I will return her to
her barn home after she recovers. The
other 2 cats that I placed there 5 years ago are still around that barn.
I had been trying
to connect with a barn owner to pick up our caging She was not returning my calls on Monday or
Tuesday. Wednesday night about 8:50 pm,
I received a call from her brother that one of the cats had a swollen, bleeding
eye and the skin was just hanging off her bones! WHAT? Why hadn’t they called me! Well,
I asked him to get her into the cage and call me back. I was ready to go there THAT NIGHT to south
of Fort Worth so I could get her to the vet first thing on Thursday
morning. Well, he did not catch her
either Wednesday night or Thursday morning. Wednesday night all I did was toss and turn and worry about that
cat. Sometime on Thursday, the sister
called and said the cats were fine….so….what is going on? It appears that the brother is taking some
sort of medicine that causes hallucinations. Bottom line: The cats were fine
when I picked up equipment on Friday. The swollen shut, bleeding eye has miraculously healed – a remarkable
recovery! GEEZ – What next?
BMG:
You know, it is
interesting that folks cannot bring a cat to Lewisville but it is fine for me
to travel to where ever they are to pick up that same cat! Hummmmmm! I had someone tell me that Lewisville was “outside her comfort zone” –
FROM THE MID-CITIES! WHAT? You know, Barn Cats travels to 37 Texas
counties and 5 Oklahoma counties…and she cannot get to Lewisville from Hurst,
Euless, or Bedford?
OMG:
Have you guys noticed how
brilliant the Crepe Myrtle trees are this year? The red ones are especially gorgeous. Nancy says it is because the color is so bright against the green of the
trees. The pink ones are amazing as
well. TAKE A LOOK…from my backyard:
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| Pink Crepe Myrtle |
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| Red Crepe Myrtle |
Thanks for following the
Barn Cats blog. See you next week! Peg
