Got in touch with the shelter.

No room - not for months.  Someone dropped off about a gazillion cats there earlier this week in a huge dog carrier and now they have no room in the shelter and no crates to loan out.

I will not have another feral cat about the place.  It is one thing when they wander through but when a feral calls this place home it just increases my stress about things like rabies and my other cats getting in fights with them.  (Not to mention the 3:00 am barking that accompanies a feral fistfight outside on the porch.  No thank you.)

So.  This little fuzz ball is in a bin in our small bathroom with his mother.  He is so soft.

We will tame him and potty train him.  Someone will adopt him and give him a home.

Right???

P.S.  We need a large doggie crate for he and mama to live in until he finds a home or is tame enough to live in the woodshed without being contained.  If you have one, please let me know!

So - remember Elaine?  Turns out that she did have two kittens this spring.  They are growing up nice and wild in my barnyard.  There is one little girl kitty that will now eat while I sit a few feet away from her food but the other one won't come near.

Elaine had another kitten a little while ago.  I had been watching her for signs of pregnancy (she will let me pet her and feel her belly) and she seemed not be reproducing again any time soon - except that a few days ago, Maxx came in and said   "Mom!  I just saw a little black kitten!"

He carried on about it for a while but I didn't think much of it because he is BIG into pretending lately.  But then Bry came in and said  that a little black kitten had run across the yard and hid in some stuff near the barn.  I went to look and sure enough - there was Elaine, nursing this one little kitten.

This morning, I stepped out to feed the feral family and the kitten happened to be on the entry way.  When I stepped out, he/she/it was effectively trapped in a little corner.  After much hissing, spitting, clawing and biting, I managed to catch the little bugger sweetie and put it into a cat carrier.  He/she is terrified and trembling and I'm sooo tempted to just set it free to live its little feral life but . . . .

 I do not want more cats around the barnyard that I can't touch and take in for rabies shots, spay/neutering or other care.  And we really can't justify taking Elaine in to be fixed and keeping her on as part of the crew.  She is mean to Emmeth and Midnight - in fact, she won't allow either of them into the barn where they can stay warm so - she has got to go before winter.

Elaine is a beautiful cat (when she lets me take the burrs out of her tail) and I think she would be very happy as an indoor/outdoor cat in a home with no other cats or where she could be the alpha. She likes attention and she's actually pretty affectionate.  I'm sure that this pretty baby will grow up to be a gorgeous cat - looks like a medium length coat and a very pretty face coming on there.





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