Friday

tip-o-day

For today's tip we will be adding RESCUE
to my favorite list of 'R' words.

We needed a cat.
But how do we get a cat that will rid of us of rodents, not cause allergic reactions, and survive the FREE dog?

I love the internets.

On the internets we found several local ‘Barn Cat’ programs.
Barn Cats are basically exactly what we were looking for. These feral to semi-feral felines are often caught by a TNR program (Trap, Neuter and Release) and for some reason or another are not able to released back to their original home. Sometimes they are also domestic cats who simply cannot conform to life inside.

We have a barn! Well.. almost a barn.

We started making some calls.
Within an hour I got a call back from a perky woman named Monica. I told her we needed a cat to control rodents, but it would have to live in our barn/garage. Did she have anything like that?

She practically squealed.

Monica, who runs a TNR program, says she rarely has barn cats for placement and that most of her animals are returned to where they were found. BUT – she just so happened to have a little female who had just weaned a litter and was in desperate need of a new home.
It seems this little feral had been getting fed by a woman who lived in a condo.
Feeding wild cats is against the rules of the Condo Association. So much so, in fact, that the Association was going to kill this cat if the woman kept feeding her.

Monica currently had this cat in a foster situation and scheduled for spaying this week. After that she would have no choice but to return her and hope for the best.

She said it was a miracle that we called.

Far be it for us to mess with miracles.

Monica said we would need to keep this cat confined for 1 possibly even 2 months. She asked if that would be possible.

Um… yeah – not a problem. Your talking to people who shut down the main entrance to their house to host a bird family.

(Look! the babies are getting big!)

My coddling wife and I got busy right away.


To be continued…