It's been quite the week!

Well we are back to work and with a vengeance!  It may not officially be spring but it is for cats, lots of pregnant cats and kittens already being born.  Our week started last Sunday at Dufferin and Lawrence helping with a 20 cat colony, Lesley and I packed up a mom and four 2 week old kittens and took them to a foster, meanwhile another cat was giving birth, and about three quarters of the colony was thankfully being TNRed.

Then Monday we went to two locations to trap, at the second one the first thing we saw was this kitten with a badly injured leg.  We were able to trap her, a sibling and the mom who oddly also was limping.  Five traps full we headed to the recovery centre and the cats went to the clinic the next day.  From location one we had a male and an already spayed female, strange because she was new to the feeders.

Then we got the call we always dread.  The worst news first, momma cat had a tumour on her paw and was in bad condition so very sadly had to be euthanized.  Our other cat, who they thought to be about six months old, had what appeared to be a birth defect, but must have been touching the ground as the bottom of the paw was abraded and infected.  The only thing to be help her would be amputation and because she was feral they recommended euthanasia.  Lesley and I said no, we wanted to give her a chance so we took her to our trusted vet.  They agree that an amputation is necessary but we hope and believe that since she is only six months old that she can recover from her surgery and become tame and live a happy life inside.  We had the best three legged cat who was missing his front leg!  Animals are much more resilient than people!  They never feel sorry for themselves.

 Before we could even take a breath, we were contacted about a colony in Scarborough with about 20 cats.  We went there this morning and sure enough, there are 20 cats, fed and loved by Larry the former firefighter, but they are in desperate feed of spay and neuter.  There is already one tiny kitten with a mom in the garage and by the looks of a few cats there will be more kittens and likely before we can get there to trap them all.

To top it off, they moved a bunch of dumpsters at the yard and destroyed some shelters, it's all in transition there so I have to figure out a new spot for Lily, Tibbs and Minky to eat and sleep.