Technically I am at yoga this morning. My first solo shift opening up and checking people in. I set up my mat to be able to join class after everyone is checked in and after I wait ten minutes for any late comers. I then lock the door and join the class.
But one minute into class two brand new people came in and everyone else was set up and started. I had to get one of the new people a mat, so I quickly pulled my set up out of the way giving them room to set up next to each other in the back.
Now I am just sitting on the floor in back and figured I would blog.
Yesterday morning we got home from yoga to this really weird sound and one of the cats in a stalking stance.
I turned the corner to find a momma opossum walking over the cat bridge covered in babies.
We brought the cat inside and I went around back to “shoo” her back over the bridge to pick up the lost baby.
But I was stressing her out and her babies were dropping off. So I left her there, headed out for my walk and there was no sign of them when I got back.
This got me motivated after my walk to clean out the ivy growing over the wall behind our shed. That is were we think they nest and we do not need that. We feed enough cats as it is.
I got the entire area cleared out and straightened up and the whelping box all cleaned out.
Yes whelping box AGAIN. It was a year ago, April 9th. That Floor had her kittens. We rehomed three of them, they by the way are living their best lives.
We had two left and in January one left and we haven’t seen her since. But the other comes and goes and is very pregnant.
I don’t know if she will have her kittens in our yard as she spends a lot of time elsewhere, we think in the yard on the street behind us.
But if she does I am determined to start handling them about a week in so they are easier to catch and rehome at eight weeks.
I am sure I was able to catch the other three last year because I really did it at six weeks or so. We were under a deadline and by the time we got back from travel these last two were far too feral.
In other cat updates, we have also lost two other cats this winter. The injured cat who only came to eat, we called him Church has not been around in two months.
Then Farquhar, he has been here living in our yard since 2019 when he was a kitten. Several weeks ago he stopped eating but was drinking lots of water. He slinked off into the portulacaria and never came back out. I went looking for him a few days later and pulled out his poor body. We think maybe he ate a poisoned rat that went into someone’s bait station.
Now Rufus has taken up a more permanent residence in the back since he is the only male out there.
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