I have to admit, going outside in the mornings has gotten a bit nerve racking. My daughters fed the outside cats early this morning, and it’s much the same for them, now, too. We keep looking around, wondering what we fill find.
Happily, this morning, all we found were active, playful – or napping! – kitties.
Finding Rolando Moon chilling in the wheelbarrow was quite funny!
While I was watering the garden this morning, ahead of the upcoming heat, I was watching the cats and noticed that only one kitten was with Brussel. Which sort of confirms to me that three of the recent losses were from her litter. The one remaining kitten, at least, looked very strong and healthy.
As for the new litter that was brought to the junk pile, I am thinking there is two kittens in the litter, but that I’m sometimes seeing other white and greys playing with them. I saw the two of them lying in the open together, with Mama nearby, and they seem a bit older than I originally thought, too. I was entertaining the possibility that Button was part of this litter and had been brought over ahead of the others or something, but I still think that’s unlikely. Possible, but unlikely.
One of the things we are talking about doing is building a larger, outdoor cat cage. Something like a catio, but self contained and moveable. When we get to the point of trapping females to get them spayed, we will need somewhere to isolate them for 2 weeks. We can’t use the sun room for that anymore; I don’t think we can fully close the doors, due to shifting. Mostly the outer door. I think the inside door can still close.
I was talking to the Cat Lady about it and asking if her husband had any construction sites in the area, and the possibility of scavenging building materials that would otherwise be doing to the landfill. He’s an engineer and doesn’t typically deal with that side of his contracts, but there aren’t any builds in our area, anyhow right now. She promised to bring it up with him, and maybe he can throw some castoffs into his truck when visiting a work site. Most of the building projects we have in mind are pretty small, so we could manage with castoffs. It would be a win-win, since it would mean at least a little bit less going to the dump.
They are in the process of having a catio being custom built at their new house – something to make it easier to keep the cats up for adoption separate from their house cats. They have a catio from their previous house that doesn’t work where they are now. They will try to get it to us. That would make things a lot easier, I think. Depending on what it’s like, we might just need to do some modifications. If that doesn’t work out, we can use the parts and pieces for something that suits our space.
We are such sucks for the cats.
Anything we can do to make it easier to catch and fix the outside cats will be a huge help, too.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 