I am running on such little sleep right now. With ten kittens who need to be neutered, the night is crammed with activity on the stairs and in the hallways and virtually all over the house. Mike is fortunate to some extent. When he goes to sleep he takes out his hearing aids and his world becomes silent. It then becomes up to me to try and keep the peace during the night- keep the boys from killing each other as their tom-catness goes a bit out of control.
This is the first time in rescue that I have had such a heavy crop of rescued kitties and have kept them past their normal time of being neutered. They are month over-due. ALL of them will be getting neutered next week- YAY!
I had to wait as I was several hundred short of getting them all done.
As I lie in bed and listen to the scuffles, growls, and tumbles and hear the girls calling out to the males and trilling their love song- I am just amazed that some people can actually do this on purpose- leave cats intact so the males become slowly more aggressive and heat cycles become painful and uncomfortable and THINK NOTHING of it.
I have the girls in one room with two currently in heat, the boys have the run of the house, because I have Mr. Cool and another two arrivals in the other rooms. I am seriously thinking of turning the old stables into a cat holding area!
I got a call this morning from a good friend with two older cats. She is moving out of the country and although I know she loves her cats, she has to come up with $8,000.00 to ship them over as well as another thousand for their shots and health exams before the new country will accept them. Add to that, the two spayed girls will have to spend 6 months in quarantine and Sharon is not sure they could survive that. She wants to leave them with me and see if I can find them a loving home where they can go on living in comfort together. Tall order right now as adoptions are down. But I told her I would try- and my hope is that next week after the spays and neuters some of these beautiful kittens once placed on PetFinders will find loving home- and then perhaps- I might be able to get some much-needed sleep!
Just a reminder, the comment contest giveaway will last till the last day in December and Jan 4th the winner will be announced and the book sent to the winner-
Can someone please send me the Sleep Fairy tonight so I can get some wonderful sleep? LOL
Finally, after a long week of absence, the Sleep Fairy found me last night! I told her to see you next. 🙂
I’ve been voting for you daily, since you put up the information on the Pepsi contest. I have the text number saved in my phone to send every morning, and I click the computer link as well. Keep letting people know about it and posting the link – everybody is so busy at this time of year, it’s helpful to remind them about the contest.
Karen,
I am sorry to say that I found out the contest isn’t really on the level. It is hard to talk about but perhaps this link would explain it best. After two weeks of no movement in the category I was after, I began to be suspicious and did some research.
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and there are more websites about it as well. I really never had a chance which means in the end, the cats lose out-
Oh I am so very sorry about the contest! Hate that for you and the cats. I hope you are able to get some much needed sleep tonight. I had 2 of my rescue girls come into heat and I thought that yowling would make me crazy~~ not that it’s really that far for me anyway~~ and finally was able to get them spayed 2 weeks ago. Plus so much better for them too. Take care and try and get some rest!
I forgot to ask~ have you had any luck finding Hook?
It would have been nice if your friend was able to donate that money to your cause on behalf of her cats. It would help pay for their care instead of going to ??? just to have them go to another country. That just seems so excessive. Do you know why it takes 6 months of being quarantined? That seems excessive too. Is that what happens anytime you move to another country or are rules different depending on where you go? (okay….I’m done with the 20 questions)
Have a good day!
Brum, the rules vary by the country you are moving to, but a many countries have weirdly strict rules. (The argument, usually, is to keep things like rabies from spreading, which we think a bit of a reach) We haven’t had any first hand experience, but several blogging buddies have had to relocate, and a lot of the time the beans wind up rehoming the kitties because of $hit like that.
Mary Anne, check out ChipIn. A lot of people use it, and it shouldn’t have been all that hard to raise a couple hundred dollars that way.
Can’t use chipIn at the moment- but it is okay, the kitties will be spayed before the end of the month. Still no sign of Hook, talked to my vet and he said that if something bad had happened to Hook, we would have found him by now because (excuse the crudeness) the smell or the insect trail. That’s why I think he is outside and roaming. He also said it is very hard to permanently injure a cat like that because of how their neck is structured. So I am hopeful that Hook will come home sooner than later.