Marco’s Web Log: Page 10
What Has Marco Been Doing for Over a Year?
It has been a long hiatus here at Marco’s web log, because there hasn’t
been much news with either Marco or Big Tony. They are still getting along just
great, and life with them has settled into a routine.
As for cat rescue, the room we were using for our “recovery room”
was put into use, so we had no place to put any cats. Until...
22 Dec 2007
Two more weeks, and she’s turned into a real kitten. She is now playing with the
Cat Dancer®. Over the holiday,
she will be fostered by a co-worker.
8 Dec 2007
What a difference a week makes! Here are pictures of Tika
(that’s what we named her)
from today. I have edited out
the red-eye and rebalanced the color for low light conditions.
She’s actually beginning to look like a cat!
Here are her pictures from 3 December. From the second picture, you can see she was
still very skinny. She weighs about four pounds now, and the vet estimates her to be
three to four months old.
1 Dec 2007
A Real Rescue
On Wednesday this week, I was supposed to meet Cathy at
T.K. Noodle on Tully Road. I was about to go in
to the restaurant when she waved me down from the parking lot. “Look what I found,”
she told me. This seal-point siamese mix kitten was nearly starved to death,
and had a really bad upper respiratory infection.
Well, our plans changed. I went in to get our lunch to go, and Cathy took the
kitten to the vet. In these pictures, you don't see how badly her eyes and nose
were crusted over before the vet cleaned her up.
We picked her up later in the afternoon and took her back to the
school, and I decided to re-open the cat room and put her in there.
As you can also see from the photos, the cat is probably not feral–both
Cathy and I were able to pet her and pick her up, and she just loved it.
Here are some pictures from just a few days later; she is beginning to look
like a real cat now, though she’s still fairly wobbly. She eats like crazy, and
is still very affectionate. I’ll keep updating pictures over the next couple
of weeks. After she starts putting on some weight and gets cleaned up, she should
be very adoptable.
8 June 2006
International Cat Rescue
As I was heading to the subway this morning, I saw some movement near some
garbage bag. There were two kittens, probably no more than a couple of
months old, rooting around in the garbage. I took my camera and got a
picture of them. As I did this, a small group of people gathered. An
old grandma-type woman grabbed the kittens by the scruff of the neck and
held them up for me to photograph. Finally, an employee of the fried
chicken restaurant grabbed them and put them into a milk crate, so
I’m going to presume that he will adopt them out. I went by two
days later, and the fellow was still taking care of the kittens, who seemed
to be doing well.
1 June 2006
International Cat Sighting
I was in Seoul, South Korea, from 30 May to 10 June. I took a short trip to
Daegu, about two and a half hours southeast by bullet train. I stayed overnight,
and as I left the lobby of the hotel in Daegu, I could have sworn I heard a cat
meowing. There was a girl fiddling with her cell phone, so I figured it was just
a sound from a cell phone game. I walked out and turned the corner, and there
was this stunningly gorgeous cat. It had the “should I investigate or
run?” look on its face, but it stayed still long enough for me to get out
my camera and take some pictures. Then the cat took off, but it didn’t
matter; my day was complete at that point.
4 February 2006
Jasper Returns!
Jasper, the gray and white cat, was gone all last semester, and we
figured he had become “coyote chow.” About a week ago, he
just showed up as if nothing had happened. There's something wrong with
his nose; it looks like it has been rubbed raw. Jasper is still
semi-tame; he lets Cathy and me pet him.
Rocket, the tabby, has
also become more tame in the past month or two. She got her name because
she shot out of the cage like a rocket when we released her after being
spayed. Cathy and I can pet her also. Some mornings she’s more interested
in getting petted than eating her food.
The dark tortoiseshell in the last picture is quite possibly the momcat
for Misha.
28 January 2006
“Minnesota Fats”
First, sorry that it has taken so long between updates. The
last semester was very busy, and we had no luck at all trapping
any other ferals. Three new ferals have come into
our area: an orange cat, a dark tortoiseshell, and a
very large cat that appears to be a Maine Coon and Siamese
mix (at least we think so because of the blue eyes.) This cat
is really big, and so its name is now
“Minnesota Fats.” We think it may have been abandoned
at one point, because it doesn’t seem as scared of us as
the other ferals are. Here are some pictures that Cathy took of the
big guy.
14 September 2005
Chloë Patches adopted
Within hours of posting the calico kitten’s picture at
craigslist, we got a call
from someone who wanted to adopt her. This family
had been looking for a cat
with just the right coloration, just the right age, and just the right size
for a couple of years. They had even picked Patches as the cat’s name,
and there she was. We took Patches over to their house yesterday afternoon,
and it was just perfect. Patches didn’t even hiss; she just
settled in to enjoy her new home.
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