I found Shy- the kitty with half her face engulfed in an abscess – well Kota found her. She was back by the creek inside  of a blackberry thicket. She has been gone for several days. She was too far gone to even give her a decent burial so I just put some ferns and leaves over her body. She will suffer no longer poor girl.

For the last few days, I have been cat wrangling and trying to get all the sanctuary cats safe inside before the insanity starts. We have a few neighbors who try to get away with illegal fireworks so it can and does get a bit noisy around here at dusk. So far, the only kitty I haven’t been able to capture and tuck away for 24 hours is Bron- the orange kitty with one bum eye. I can only hope that once the fireworks begin- Bron will just duck under the barn and wait it out.

I’m not sure what the baby skunks will do. Hopefully not get so stressed out they run into harm’s way.They should be moving on in about two weeks as territorial disputes are breaking out daily. They can travel up to 12 miles to find a new home, which I do hope is soon!

This morning, Kota and I took our walk back to the creek and the culvert has been blocked off- not with debris floating downstream but a family of beavers have set up residence and built a pretty impressive damn right at the opening of the culvert. It is quite the sight- but the water is backing up.We can’t mess with them, by law both the skunks and the beavers are protected- so we will just have to wait and see what happens from here.