Day 2 - plants and kittens.

Didn't make any new bracelets last night because I have so many chores to do. I have so much staring at me that the beads who usually come first have to remain quiet.

Beading has become very important to keep my mind off health issues, but I also have another fondness. Cats.

I am ostensibly the biggest cat lady in my town. It all started some 11 years ago when I looked out my back door and this tiny little black and white kitten was staring at me. My first reaction...oh no!!! I called Jon, my husband to the door to have a look at this pint sized critter. At first I sloughed her off but she kept on coming to the door and looking forlornly into Jon's office window in the middle of the night. I gave in. We had already gotten a cat and so I figured she could use some company.

Much to the older cat's chagrin, we brought the new unit in. We called her Mitzi since she had little white mitts on her feet.

So began the saga of the cat lady.

Everything was fine until the next summer when a black cat brought five kittens to the back door. OMG. More. I didn't know what to do.

I started to feed them, and they began recognizing me as the lunch truck. I tried finding homes for them and was not successful so there they remained. The back door and yard were their territory. One day, one of them was lying there barely breathing and I freaked out. I woke Jon up and told him Buddy was sick.

He was very sick, dying in fact. He had pneumonia. We took him to Dr. Dave the vet in Maple and I asked him to euthanize him. Dr. Dave was not a full service vet and had no serum to complete the deed. He did however say that he could cure him.

So, Buddy became our pet. I managed to find homes for 2 of the remaining 4 and then there were 2.

What was I to do? We finally decided to introduce the last two kittens into the mix and then there were 5. Too many.

To this day we have the same 5 cats. Too many but manageable.

Outside is the problem. Several Octobers ago I looked out my dining room window only to see two tiny kittens staring up at me. Shit!!...more...I know, I will feed them.
Then I fixed them a warm spot outside Jon's office window where they stayed all winter.

These two were the true start of the cat problem.

Two cats begat 5 who begat 10 and so on and so on.

I now have a resident cat population of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 12 adults and I am not sure how many kittens.

During the past 7 years I have successfully found homes for 58 cats and kittens and the number is mounting.

I currently have 19 kittens that I know of and I am sure there are more out there hiding. At the same time there is also at least one more pregnant female.

Lord help me.

I have now had 3 visits from animal control. The last was yesterday. I confronted them and indicated who the complainant was. The creepy people across the street sit on their veranda and stare over here all day long. That I must say is a nightmare.

Animal control was very understanding due to the fact that I have no food dishes or water bowls out there indicating that I am not feeding or harbouring them.

I asked for help from them and let me say they did nothing.

If you are reading this and want a kitten, please let me know. I deliver with food.

I have calicos, black and white, muted calicos, all white, red tabbies, gray tabbies.
Basically pick a colour and I have it.

Pussies galore. I asked for it and I got it I guess. I just can't let them go hungry. My conscience won't let me stop. I have an affinity for the lost creatures who did not ask to be born.

If you are a loving soul and can help, please let me know so that I can go back to my beads and not worry that there is another hungry kitten calling to me.