Good morning! There is not much to report on the pins, I just wanted to say hello. Pins in progress. Here is what I have been up to instead of clogging your in-box.
It is kitten season! I didn’t know that was a thing until I fed a feral cat that was visiting my yard. Then suddenly I had 5 coming for dinner. Two were pregnant females. I realized I need to do something before we have dozens. I read up on TrapNeuterRelease programs. I bought my own trap. I put fliers on doors in about a 400ft radius from my home which is near a cross road of fences in the neighborhood looking for the kittens. Posted in Nextdoor and FB. Finally got help from our neighborhood organizer. Within 2 days I got messages from ladies just outside my radius that the kittens were in their yards. Shadow’s kittens were coming out to play. I couldn’t get traps set up until a few days later, after thunderstorms came through . The kittens had scattered. We caught mom and 2 days later got 3 kittens but never saw the others. I got Shadow spayed and kept her for 7 days with the babies.
Big cage with lots of room, but mom makes the best sleeping spot. I didn’t realize how much work would be to socialize 3 kittens. But, it is so much fun and they are getting really sweet. They are now 8.5 weeks old. Next I have to get Chloe and her two babies. They have established my yard as home and play out in the open. Her babies are 12.5 weeks old. I couldn’t find them until she started bringing them here to eat a few days ago. They had already disappeared when I was trapping Shadow. So my days are filled with a herd of animals. My 4 resident cats, 3 kittens inside, and 3 cats plus whoever else comes for dinner outside, possums and the occasional raccoon. I also have a meal worm farm going to feed some tiny wrens every day. That started before the kitten craze. Yet it hasn’t completely kept me from shopping 😹. When that slows down I might have inspiration to make more cat pins.
Have a great summer while we wait for pins to come.
