worst summer for abandoneds

Already before today I had seen three abandoned cats and a dog on my Old
Mine Rd biking route. Today I chatted with a runner who lives nearby to
see if he had seen the ginger cat that I was hoping to escue; he hadn't
but told me of a white cat and a Siamese he'd seen yesterday near where
I'd already been looking. That's in addition to 3 other cats which
another person had seen that I hadn't. The ones I had seen I'd had
unrequited hopes of saving: a tabby asleep in the sun on the
doorstepof an abandoned house that I'd some reason to hope I'd fed; a
black cat that I saw 3 times but couldn't feed because it disappeared
too quickly to get a location on but it was heading toward a dead end
where I knew there was someone who would feed it; and the ginger that I
first saw at a different abandoned house but couldn't locate to feed,
then saw again 5 weeks later and left food where it disappeared into the
brush (I carry a tin of cat food in each bike bag). All told, that's 20
cats (2 rescued) and 2 dogs I've seen or been told of in the 10 summers
of biking Old Mine. Norm

Norm wrote:
Already before today I had seen three abandoned cats and a dog on my Old
Mine Rd biking route. Today I chatted with a runner who lives nearby to
see if he had seen the ginger cat that I was hoping to escue; he hadn't
but told me of a white cat and a Siamese he'd seen yesterday near where
I'd already been looking. That's in addition to 3 other cats which
another person had seen that I hadn't. The ones I had seen I'd had
unrequited hopes of saving: a tabby asleep in the sun on the
doorstepof an abandoned house that I'd some reason to hope I'd fed; a
black cat that I saw 3 times but couldn't feed because it disappeared
too quickly to get a location on but it was heading toward a dead end
where I knew there was someone who would feed it; and the ginger that I
first saw at a different abandoned house but couldn't locate to feed,
then saw again 5 weeks later and left food where it disappeared into the
brush (I carry a tin of cat food in each bike bag). All told, that's 20
cats (2 rescued) and 2 dogs I've seen or been told of in the 10 summers
of biking Old Mine. Norm

Well, bless you for trying instead of just seeing them and just hoping
"someone else" will take care of the problem.
I used to have a poem entitled "Someone Else'' that goes on and ends
with something like "Then I realized Someone Else was me."
By contrast, I haven't had a stray in quite some time. (furiously
knocking on wood)
Good luck Norm.

Sherry

wrote:

Well, bless you for trying instead of just seeing them and just hoping
"someone else" will take care of the problem.
I used to have a poem entitled "Someone Else'' that goes on and ends
with something like "Then I realized Someone Else was me."
By contrast, I haven't had a stray in quite some time. (furiously
knocking on wood)
Good luck Norm.

Thanks for the response, the hardship is the futility of trying to
convince a feral that I am a friend with food, and it takes away from
fun part of the bike ride. An irony is that one rescue, Khen Su, went
to the Humane Society due to the household disruption when I introduced
him; now, I have the 3 adoptees who are more disruptive than Khen Su
was (witness my appends, particularly about Tao, the Ninja cat). Norm

Norm wrote:

wrote:


Well, bless you for trying instead of just seeing them and just hoping
"someone else" will take care of the problem.
I used to have a poem entitled "Someone Else'' that goes on and ends
with something like "Then I realized Someone Else was me."
By contrast, I haven't had a stray in quite some time. (furiously
knocking on wood)
Good luck Norm.


Thanks for the response, the hardship is the futility of trying to
convince a feral that I am a friend with food, and it takes away from
fun part of the bike ride. An irony is that one rescue, Khen Su, went
to the Humane Society due to the household disruption when I introduced
him; now, I have the 3 adoptees who are more disruptive than Khen Su
was (witness my appends, particularly about Tao, the Ninja cat). Norm

There are so many feral kitties Thank you for helping them, Norm.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek