How is Tina doing?
Tina is still wary but settling more than at first. She is still outside. I thought she needed the familiar cats to hang out with. Hopefully inside eventually.
ETA: Speaking of Tina and, more to the point :winkgrin:, Tina’s teeth, my hand is feeling better today. This is the first day since the weekend that I can tell a major difference in how much it is hurting. Still red and angry right around the fang marks but the distance the red goes decreasing.
Great Job !!! DT ``` very imprssed with your feline skills !
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And I, for one, am very impressed with your story telling skills. (and your very loving heart)
I went late this afternoon. Had had no luck the last few days with a trap, but I had hopes for today, as it was cold last night, snowing this morning, and in general has a wind chill south of ick. Definitely worst day of the season so far.
Nope. Nobody home. I really think the missing have folded their tents and moved on. Remember, this situation has been going on for them since early October when she left in the ambulance that morning.
I have left word and contact info, but as of tonight, unless I hear something, I am calling chapter Move-the-Cats over. I did my best. As she herself would say, that’s all any of us can do.
Good news, a farm about 20 miles from here wants a female as long as she’s spayed, which all of the females are. The only unaltered cats in this bunch are the youngest kittens who hadn’t been done yet, and they are male. These folks are relatives of someone I know and will be a good home. We can’t coordinate until after Thanksgiving, but they will come out to meet the cats probably in the week or so after that.
Here is Baby Cat. I hadn’t had a chance at a picture of her the day upthread that I was taking pictures. I have always thought Baby Cat was the most gorgeous thing. She really is the orange swirl she looks like in the flash. I might wind up keeping her just to have her around to look at, although if she stays, I will change the name. CL, much as I loved her, was not the most imaginative namer of felines.
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk8/dressagetraks/Baby%20Cat%20112115_zps2bumiwxn.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk8/dressagetraks/Baby%20Cat%202%20112115_zpssyjtnday.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk8/dressagetraks/Baby%20Cat%203%20112115_zpsyg9jzdlb.jpg
And here is Sarge, wondering what on earth has happened to the place lately. Humph!
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk8/dressagetraks/Sarge%20112115_zpsgz3edo2x.jpg
Thank you, OP, for ensuring that these cats find a safe home! So sorry to hear about CL though…she was lucky to have you to watch over her beloved kitties, and they were lucky to have such a loving owner!
I would take Tina in a heartbeat if I were closer…I have a big soft spot for those “special” cats. I had one that was not quite right mentally (I think too much inbreeding…she was a farm cat with a nutty mother and similarly loopy siblings) but I LOVED LOVED LOVED that cat! She mostly hissed and seemed to “flip a switch” with just a little too much attention, but I really loved her. Thank you for paying special attention to Tina.
Baby Cat is certainly a beauty. I’m glad you are thinking of keeping her. I, too, think the three that are missing have moved on. I hope that they land safely. I certainly have my fingers crossed that you can find homes for all that you want to adopt out.
The cats have an interview next Sunday, the 29th. My friend is coming out with her relatives so they can pick a cat, and she’s also been campaigning for a cat herself, but her husband is reluctant. Maybe some purrs will bring him around!
Thank you for being so conscientious. Not everyone is. I wouldn’t be able to live knowing these guys were fending for themselves.
You know you just inherited a new title right?
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Thanks. I’ve jokingly called her a calishell, but I couldn’t figure out what the technical term would be.
dressagetraks,
I am just in awe and admiration of you. Completely.
Thank you. Not just for “doing the right thing,” but for being an amazing friend, animal lover, and HUMAN BEING.
Every one of us can learn something from you and this situation.
Thank you for sharing, and again- thank you for being you.
All the respect.
You are amazing to make sure all of these kitties land safely. You should definitely keep BC! 
By the way, I am considering renaming Baby Cat Joyce. Doesn’t fit into my loose system of animal names (literary and/or musical), but I’m not rigidly locked into that system.
I have posted a few times thanking you for being such a caring person, but, I figure one more time won’t hurt. You’ll find a good name for this lucky cat, I’m sure.
I have to tell you, though, that every time I see that you have posted, I have this stubborn little hope that says “maybe she found Elvis.” I still believe that, somehow, you will.
Yep, me too! Actually I’m secretly hoping we get a holiday miracle and all 3
outlaws are found and get to spend Christmas in a warm snuggly home.
James Joyce, literary enough for anyone.
StG
Icky, damp, rainy, blech day for the cats to have an interview, but the people have been in touch this afternoon already and are still coming out. Hopefully the cats will look personable and sociable rather than just damp and annoyed. I went to family Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday yesterday, and my stepmother sent me off with a care package for me and one for the cats. I think I’ll go out and distribute some from theirs right now before the prospective people arrive, to “prime” them and maybe make them think of seconds in a little bit.
I’m not skipping Mom, by the way. Meeting at the nursing home about her on Wednesday, so I just moved the weekly visit day.
No word from Elvis et. al, but Poly and Cotton are back with me. Their prospective home didn’t work out with them, through no fault of their own.
Hopefully another cat or two will leave today. I have high hopes for these people. Anybody who would come out today is seriously interested in a cat.
Well, that was a success but not in the way I expected. The cats were indeed reluctant to get out in the rain, even for Thanksgiving feast. I finally got the attention of most, but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of Tina, Rascal, or Lucy today.
They were just eating turkey trimmings when an SUV pulled up a bit early, and out popped five people, including a young kid. Every head went up, and every cat scattered. The people were really patient, and we spent several minutes trying to coax cats out from under the house. My friend was petting Baby Cat, one of the few who didn’t run, and was just saying how pretty she was when she tried to pick her up. Nope. BC doesn’t do that on the first date.
They wandered around the place and actually petted and admired Sarge quite a bit. She also was about to pick up Sarge, and I warned her in time. She is clearly a compulsive cat picker-upper, which I enjoy myself, but most of them need a closer acquaintance than five minutes before you try it, and Sarge is the most recent convert to life with people among the whole pride.
I had been thinking of this as a potential home for the blacks, and Panther was the other cat who didn’t scatter. He even went over to them to say hi. Bagheera had vanished into cat warp, so my team of blacks was missing half the pair.
And then in the meanderings around and looking at cats and my inside cats looking out (constant Kitty Kitty driving them nuts), they finally got a look at Maggie. Originally, I wouldn’t have considered offering Maggie. But she’s pretty and sweet, the most unaggressive thing with other cats alive, and she is . . . well, pretty and sweet. My other four housecats have personality of differing quirks and edges and degrees. Several of the outside cats do, also. But Maggie is just a sweet little cat. It’s sort of like food without salt or spices. To a good home, yes, I decided I would give her up. They liked her quite a bit, and so Maggie went off with them, along with Panther. I initially didn’t want to split the blacks, but now that Poly and Cotton are back, Bagheera will still have a few bonded brothers around, and Maggie and Panther actually know each other and did fine (black cat mixup briefly, didn’t realize two were in until Pharaoh appeared). Hopefully they will do well.
Two more down. This is a good place, and they seemed like good cat-folk, the kind who will come out in the rain to see cats.
Panther did clearly like them. He is the one cat of all who approached them instead of vice versa.
A cat Thanksgiving dinner.
Most of the gang.
Satin (left) and Sarge could be son and father!
Emily Dickinson. Still the queen of the outdoors.
The gorgeous Baby Cat, maybe Joyce (still deciding)
Ruby
