2009 Colony Cats UPDATE

Hard to find time to keep this up to date...

October already, I'll try to think back on what has happened



SADLY, Sir Ocelot had to be euthanized earlier this year..

He was looking skinnier than normal and seemed to have trouble eating. But he would come around now and then, being very friendly and happy to see us, and have a "Sir Ocelot party" for all, with wet food . One day, we were finally, FINALLY able to trap him! Our most allusive one... Thinking we could get him fixed and treat him for fleas and all other problems he might have.... but unfortunately, we got a call from the vet.... Cancer had attacked all the back of his throat, and with tears, we decided the only truly humane thing to do was to put him to sleep. We miss him. The alpha of the colony.....

 

ORANGIE, on the other hand, had scared us with some skin problem, around his mouth and belly... The vet thought it was cancer, but we treated it with a depo shot and happily, it almost went away. Another depo shot every couple of months and it seems to go away..... The vet said might be something called Rodent ulcer.. (Nothing to do with rodents though..)

 We added 2 chickens to the colony too! But have then on the property now.... Roosters actually...

The five kittens we rescued from the dumpster are doing great! Taz, the all black girl is the smallest but thee most aggressive! Bender had some ear sores, but may have been from Orangie playing too rough with her... (Orangie LOVES her...)

 

We caught the Gray and White male and got him fixed. He is still shy but we see him a couple times a week, eating and doing well.

Had a new adult orange male, "Ballsy" fixed, and two from down the road, an Orange Boy and orange / white Boy. The Orange Boys were caught the same day and brought to a neuter scooter. When I picked them up, after the surgery, they were accidently placed in the wrong cages! These boys were fairly new and I really didn't know them that well by looks, but knew well enough to be 90% sure they were in the wrong cages! They were released in different places, and luckily I "guessed" right!
Several months later and Ballsy is really friendly to a couple of us, and loves to be petted!

Early this summer we got a call from the humane society... They had one of our cats, may be a Siamese mix??? We had no Siamese that was missing... But it had a tattoo that was registered to our colony, so I went to get it..
Turns out to be a dirty Stubbie! Very good to see him again! Gone almost a year !

We brought him up to the property and he is still there. Probably one of the best cats around! So happy and good! Loves to lay on top of us!

Another return from the dead.... Sister Oscar!

Gone perhaps two years, and we get a call from the humane society... who had a striped tabby of ours... The only one I knew was missing was sister Oscar.... but two years, I thought no way.... but YES, Sister Oscar! Missing a lot of fur, but it was him! We brought him up to the property too. We changed his name to Mister Oscar.... He gets along great with the other cats... (Except Baby girl...) He also prefers being inside to outside! He eats ALL the time! I don't think he realizes that he doesn't have to look for food any more... We will have to put him on a diet if this keeps up! He does have runny stools, but the vet says no worms or problem they can figure out... Oscar would love to spend his day on someone's lap, and head butts with other cats...

We have 7 cats on the property, now being October.... and 13 at our condo. We had it down to 11 a couple months ago, by bringing Munchie Boy, Munchie Girl, Guido, Spaz and Baby girl to the property,
but on September 16, we got a call from one of our drivers that there were some baby kittens at a nearby recycling center. That the people working there had been feeding it junk like bread and potato chips! Baby kittens! Can't people figure out that babies need special nutrition?!! We picked up two kittens, a boy and a girl. We called the vet but they couldn't' take them til the next week... We fed them canned kitten food and special milk for baby kittens... They both ate, but the boy wasn't doing well... We got them to the vet Monday, when they gave the boy fluids, and some canned food and vitamins... Very sadly, the boy died that night... I wished I forced the vet to see them the day we found them... he would have had a better chance....

The girl is doing really well though! Princess is at the condo... yet too afraid to play with the other cats, but is a wild bundle of energy. Pumpkin wants to play, but so far Princess just cowers... Taz and Grannie have swatted her a few times, so of course Princess is afraid of bigger cats....

On October 3rd, we were leaving the office, and a few blocks away, noticed what looked like a dead cat on the side of the road... We drove closer and it was alive... barely! Panting heavily and not moving, in the hot sun! We were able to pick it up and brought it right to the vet... who just locked their doors for the day... but saw us and were willing to help us with the cat...
We thought it was hit by a car, but after examining the cat, the vet said the injuries were more in line with being kicked or hit with something! Broken rib, collapsed lung, crushed liver.... and starving and dehydrated! We didn't think she had a chance.... The vet kept her over the weekend, and we brought her to the condo on Monday... Where she is now, and doing great! The vet said if she was out in the sun an hour longer she probably would not have made it! The vet named her Coco Azul, a tawnie siamese mix with blue eyes... We had her rechecked by the vet who said her liver had recovered 100%! Truly a miracle! She must have been someones pet... so sweet and beautiful.... Even with the near $1000 vet bill, she deserves a chance at a happy life...... and now has one..

We still need to catch Simba, a kitten that showed up earlier this year, who is now big enough to be fixed....

And there is another new gray and white fluffy cat, without a tail, that is coming around more often....
and I saw a new fluffy orange one down the block that I hadn't seen before....





Sir Ocelot...

sir ocelot 

orangies lip "rodent ulcer"

orangies belly


chicks and cats

gray white Tom

Ballsy

Stubbie


Sister Oscar 2006

Mister oscar 2009


Princess rescued 2009

Prince, sadly didn't make it...


Happy Princess

Coco Azul, rescued from the side of the road 2009

Simba




No one should go hungry, orlive a life of pain....

Take responsibility for what goes on around you.

Don't just pass things off to others....
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