I have been taking care of several colony's for many years. Most of them I managed to get the people where they are located at to take care of them.
The man who had been taking care of one of them for 5 years got a new job and I am back taking care of it.
Of course, some new cats had shown up. DAMN! second night I trap and I get a tame cat who has some kind of neurological thing going on with his hind quarters. I am beside myself over this because this colony had always been a problem with two or three injured cats being dumped there every summer. Very difficult place to "police" because of the amount of traffic there. It is a glass business and there is a bowling ally and laundramat near plus a Goodwill where people bring things at night and leave so other people come to see what they can get.
I just do not have the money to take care of these injured guys. I am having enough trouble taking care of the guys I have now. This is a colony of the feral cat orginization that I work with, but they have changed so much (pretty much from a TTVR orginization to one where the people bring the cats to them 3 times a month to get them tested, vaccinated and desexed. The woman who started it quit because she said they have lost their heart) I don't think they are gonna be much help beyond the desexing and providing food.
The cat is sweet and at the vets now. I pick him up in the AM (ok, later in the AM). She did not find any broken bones in the initial exam, but he has lost muscle tone in his hindquarters. She is gonna test him for diabetes and do a more thorough exam of him when he is out to be neutered. He really needs to be Xrayed, but...
The man who had been taking care of one of them for 5 years got a new job and I am back taking care of it.
Of course, some new cats had shown up. DAMN! second night I trap and I get a tame cat who has some kind of neurological thing going on with his hind quarters. I am beside myself over this because this colony had always been a problem with two or three injured cats being dumped there every summer. Very difficult place to "police" because of the amount of traffic there. It is a glass business and there is a bowling ally and laundramat near plus a Goodwill where people bring things at night and leave so other people come to see what they can get.
I just do not have the money to take care of these injured guys. I am having enough trouble taking care of the guys I have now. This is a colony of the feral cat orginization that I work with, but they have changed so much (pretty much from a TTVR orginization to one where the people bring the cats to them 3 times a month to get them tested, vaccinated and desexed. The woman who started it quit because she said they have lost their heart) I don't think they are gonna be much help beyond the desexing and providing food.
The cat is sweet and at the vets now. I pick him up in the AM (ok, later in the AM). She did not find any broken bones in the initial exam, but he has lost muscle tone in his hindquarters. She is gonna test him for diabetes and do a more thorough exam of him when he is out to be neutered. He really needs to be Xrayed, but...