Giz/Emma and everyones pets on the board

Agreed, dumping pets is disgusting. I grew up in the suburbs and didn't experience it. I did however work at the vet inside the humane society in my teens, and ended up taking hours in the actual kennels too. The things I saw were heartbreaking, and the worst was when the CU let out for summer and sometimes even Christmas break.. Then I saw some dumping near our home of 21 years on the edge of town, yes we backed up to state forest, but it was extremely popular for recreation, so not too much and the recreators helped too. Now here, its disgusting. 1/3 BLM open lands, 1/3 large ranches, and 1/3 residential scattered within the former 2, and the culture is different here too (vs the suburbs from my childhood).

Anyway, a lot of the newly dumped pets get to a shelter (not equipped to live in the wild), but there is a feral colony a couple miles down the road from me. Lila and another cat (poor thing was a prolific breeder for god knows how long), now have food and shelter and vet care for life. Just a tiny fraction of the problem, but.....

 

Trip to the Vet on Friday (WWW has the day off and I cannot do the dogs by myself). Both dogs, Lila wildcat, hoping to trap the other fixed wildcat but don't see her often enough to ensure it. And now I guess we will take the kitten too though he's not due for checkup or boosters yet. He has had a teary eye since the pics sent to me from when he was only 8 weeks old. I figured thats just the way he is (like toy poodles) and wipe it a few times a day. Now, he gets boogies sometimes in that nostrile. No signs of URI, no sneezing or mucous beyond what I mentioned before, but he's sleeping more for a few days. Who knows, maybe he's busy growing and needs the rest. Either way we'll find out.

Should be an adventure. WWW, me, lil one, both dogs, and 2 or 3 cats all in my truck

 

Thanks, and omg could imagine all of them loose!! Yes, kitten has airline carrier from delivery, hard sided one for our Lila wildcat (wish us luck getting her in it , think I will don the awesome leather fireplace gloves from FHC Secret Santa, thank you again Brett ), and the other wildcat will be transported in the actual trap. On second thought, maybe I will take my truck too, dogs/kitten/lil one in one truck, and the 2 wildcats in another. Thanks for the tip Erik

 

Oh no! Wise advice, thank you Erik

 

Ha!!

The kitten does not appear sick to me, I just have been out of the vet industry for so long and so many things have changed since back then I question things. Know what I mean?

 

X2! Nothing closer than a girl and her dog!

 

I was not allowed to put a hitch on the new to us Blazer back in the day because we had an empty corral...