T.T. Is On Her Way

Today I called the vet and asked about their spay and neuter program.  Thankfully they have one and it only costs approximately $150 to get a female spayed!  Seeing as my neighbourhood has generously already covered $100 of the cost, we're doing good!  I've caught T.T. and she's currently in a dog kennel in the spare bedroom until tomorrow when she goes in for her surgery.  I'll let you all know how it goes tomorrow evening!  Maybe I'll get a picture of two as well of her for all of you.

Gender Dilema

Today while I was feeding Kitten and T.T. (I got a large donation of cat food and I would like send a HUGE thanks to Liz who donated all of it!) I discovered some shocking news.  All parents want to know the gender of their baby, and with T.T. sort of being my like my child of course I wanted to know the gender!  Hoping for a boy though because then it would cost less to fix, I was somewhat disappointed to find that she was a girl.  Girls are great of course, except for the fact they can cost twice to triple the cost of a male to get fixed because it’s a major invasive surgery.  Luckily, I still have that hundred dollars from fundraising in my neighbourhood to use and hopefully one of the vet clinics around can give me a discount again.  It'll take some phone calls all around town to arrange everything but I swear I will get this last kitty spayed and end the overpopulation in my neighbourhood!

Wish me luck and remember to vote (look to the sidebar on the right) :)

Voting

I will explain the voting.  So, for blogs there is an option to let ads appear on them.  You can be paid for allowing these ads on your website.  Here is the question for you viewers: do you want ads on my blog with all the money going to the feral cats or would you rather there be no ads?  As the viewers, this is for you guys to decide.  Please vote!  Just click yes or no on the right to let me know what you think!

Unforeseen Issues

T.T. to the left & Kitten on the right.

T.T. and Kitten never seem to leave the comfort of the back doorstep anymore, although I can’t blame them when delicious food scraps are brought to them every morning from breakfast and dinner.  I have no problem with this whatsoever (except maybe the minor annoyance when T.T. tries to bite my toes every time I go out).

One unforeseen issue with them living there is that one of my cats, the ginger tabby Oliver, has been getting extremely frustrated!  As a male cat, and even though he's neutered, he still wants to protect his territory.  He stands there at the window and watches them with unblinking, glaring eyes – sort of unnerving even for me the way he has such a hatred for them.  

The fact he can’t attack them is causing a mess of problems.  The main one is that due to misplaced aggression (he can’t attack those cats so he is taking his anger and territorial frustration out on others) because now he's attacking my sister and chasing the other cat, Tucker, all the time around the house.  I'm hoping when winter strikes the feral cats will move somewhere warmer in the forest and Oliver can have some peace of mind and my sister won’t have to watch her back for a prowling ginger cat who wants to rip her face off (okay, he's not that aggressive, but still fairly scary).  Well, I guess it’s a waiting game now...

The Spy Cam

My spy camera ran out of batteries.  I takes more than one would think it a tiny trail camera would be able to fit, alas it is many many batteries.  Therefore, I must find a copious stash of batteries somewhere in my house to get it back in action.  I shall look tomorrow, wish me luck!

ATTACK!

You may think differently, but if I'm not mistaken that is a rabbit foot and tail.  This picture suggests that either the rabbit:

a) Jumped at the camera and smoked it's head on the pole the trail camera is on

b) Narrowly missed the pole while jumping at the camera or

c) The rabbit was attacking the camera.  

Which do you think it was?  Let me know in the comments!

Cat Pyramid

     Kitten and T.T. seem to live on the back step now.   It’s getting colder so usually they cuddle up together to preserve some sort of heat.  I guess stacking on top each other works too!  This was probably a once-in-a-life-time sort of thing, T.T. will probably never stack himself on his mom again, but I'm glad I got a picture!

     Kitten has grown to like T.T. and shares her food with him.  Before, she'd shove him away and wouldn’t pay him much attention at all.  A great stress has been relieved from me knowing that she'll share food with him and that she cuddles with him as well.

     Unfortunately, T.T. gets very impatient when I'm feeding him.  Just last week I was standing a foot in from the doorway and throwing some sausage pieces out.  Apparently I wasn’t throwing fast enough because T.T. ran inside the house and scratched me.  I couldn't believe it!  This feral cat ran into the house and scratched me!  Anyway, that hasn’t happened since – except he's taken to biting your toes when you walk outside.  He creeps up on them and nips as if to tell you if you don’t put the food down faster, there’ll be dire consequences.  Wearing crocs has saved my precious digits on multiple occasions.  After the incident with Tucker attacking my hands, I'm going to avoid getting cat bites as long as possible!