Last night Hope somehow managed to fall and catch her hind leg between the box springs and the bed frame leaving her in agony as she was dangling towards the floor from her leg which was NOT in a good angle at all. Naturally I rushed over to try and free her before she suffered something permanent and got savagely bitten by her messing up my dominant hand because I didn't think to grab a blanket or something to protect myself. She's already acting normal and I've got the worst injury I've ever had with half a dozen punctures in the first joint of my first finger so my hand is swollen and really not sure how useful the Walk-in clinic's medical care is when all she said was 'here's an antibiotic you don't need to do anything else.' So if it doesn't get better in a few days I'll have to consider possible Emergency room care although this weekend is going to be brutally cold down into the negatives and snow on top of that.

Honestly about the only good (I hope) thing I've seen is that between Thursday and Friday someone put two styrofoam totes with blankets in them on my grandmother's property for the cats. They even included some wet food. I just hope they aren't related to whoever took my kittens as I hate not knowing what's up with them plus I haven't seen Frigga in 4 days now and I fear the worst given Granny's was her home and she was always there.

Granny had been complaining about her now 12-1/2 year old black cat Kitty for years now, saying she wanted to get rid of her because she was scratching things up when she had nothing else to scratch at and she barely had anywhere at all being confined in the small unheated porch area. So today I finally decided I had the bedroom here sealed to where I could keep her here instead and picked her up on my way back. She went into the carrier without complaint, while she meowed a little on the drive she was a good girl and after running around a bit in the bedroom she's hiding under the bed now. So hopefully she'll settle in without too much trouble, as is got food, water and litter box all ready for her and hopefully she'll make sure to use the last since Granny never even let her have a litter box to go in, just some newspapers on the floor or when she put her outside.

As an aside I can't believe they've actually added ratings to even the Journals now.

Well it was a very long Friday but I and all my kitties are finally moved in here at the other place. I moved Misty and her kittens first (along with Nyx) after getting all their furniture and other things moved to make things more familiar for them. Oh God did nearly everyone cry so pitifully though all the way here and a few like Nyx and Aurora were a handful to catch and get into a carrier. But they're all moved in now and mostly hiding under the beds in each room, although some are doing better adjusting than they did with the first move and already running around cautiously, although mostly they're hiding unless I'm in there.

Jaspyr was one of my biggest concerns as he got another UTI. :( Overnight from Wednesday to Thursday morning he didn't do his usual routine of trying to sleep on my pillow next to my head and was hiding in a box in a corner and wouldn't even come when I called him like he usually does. Worse by the time I got back in the afternoon he hadn't eaten ANYTHING or had any water, so I had to do an emergency vet run for him made even more difficult because Dad needed to get to his skin cancer doctor's appointment at the same time and Mom's just not good at those drives anymore but she understood and managed to get there and back okay. Meanwhile Jaspyr had a fever and the vet gave him subcutaneous fluids as she felt he was a bit dehydrated along with antibiotics to give him so he can recover. I guess I've let him around to eat the other non-prescription food too much so will have to not slack off anymore and ensure he only eats his urinary care food so this doesn't happen again.

I'd had to take Tiger to the vet a couple weekends ago and there was a dead 4-6 month old black kitten in the median of the road so I stopped to give it a proper burial on the way back. Someone deliberately drove over her squashing her when I was almost back to her (I saw the tires going over her body). Most of her bones were broken, she was like a limp dishrag or ragdoll on my hand. Her head was in awful shape and picking her up to carry her back her intestines fell out and were dragging the ground. :( I got her back together as best I could at the car and buried her the next day and ended up digging up the edge of Sylvester's coffin in the process. She's buried now though and laid to rest with a marker like the others. That's 5 kitties I've given burials to from the highway now, with her the second pure black one. So an orange boy started the year out, black kitten, black and white kitten, gray kitty and now this black kitty.

So in the eleventh week of a six-eight week wait we FINALLY got the building we ordered at the start of JULY to house the kittens here at the other property in. It cost around $25k and I'm not sure how much the crushed rock pad cost for its placement but at least $1700. We had to move the propane tank which they only finished moving and hooking up last week just barely in time for the winter warranty check of the furnace. Meanwhile the power company also finally completed its part of running power to a pole next to the building last week and the electrician did the last of the hook-up from the meter/breaker box on the pole. THAT cost $3800 but there's now a 200A breaker box on the building not counting the 200A box at the meter and it's finally fully powered. He talked us into installing an electric furnace for heat instead of trying to rely on space heaters to the tune of $4800, so in a few weeks the building will have almost everything you'd want for living in outside of plumbing. We'll also be having linoleum laid down for cleaning and other purposes to handle the cats living in there, since we can't have them living on that original flooring.

Meanwhile the original house Mom finally called someone in to inspect the roof. The cheap estimate only repairing the directly damaged area is $32k roughly, to fix the entire roof structure (he said he almost fell through the roof several times walking on it) around $45k. That would include the ceiling damage in the kitchen and living room. While that wouldn't make the house livable (still needs the water damage that took out the power repaired and that's probably at least $10-20k) it'd at least improve its winter weather tolerance if we can manage it.

Hopefully though once that building is done at least I'l be moved in here at the other place with my cats, even if I can't let any loose in the house yet but at least we'd have something more stable than current housing for us.

So 2 weeks ago I'd fed everyone on Monday as usual and come the next day only one of the black kittens was left. The kitten that was still afraid and would hide from people, all four I'd gotten socialized and friendly had been taken by someone and I fear the worst for them I caught the remaining one a few days later and named her Bailey. She's slowly coming along in Cabin 1 with the other 3 Faith, Hope and Charity (who're also all doing well).

Meanwhile Frigga had her latest litter last weekend from somewhere after I fed her Saturday afternoon and when I returned Sunday afternoon. Hopefully more of the will survive and I'll be able to catch and find homes for them so someone doesn't take and harm them too.

I am just so angry right now! My sister insisted on cleaning that house despite the rain and predicted thunderstorms and for a change her husband stayed to carry trash bags out. She mouthed off about how she felt only she and her husband were doing anything (mind you they put on protective gear like they were going into a nuclear reactor) and after starting something I shot back at her. Well her husband when I went to toss trash into the trash bin threatened to break my jaw if I raised my voice to 'his wife' again. I told him his wife MY sister and if he wanted to I have no problems sending him to jail. After repeating himself he actually had to gall to talk like I should be GRATEFUL that they were so 'magnanimously' helping clean up, yeah right grateful some <censored> tells me he's going to break my jaw.

Honestly I don't want to ever see either of them ever again. She's never acted like we're family and none of her husbands ever behaved like they had a brother-in-law and she's sure to mouth off again to provoke things and I won't hesitate to press charges and insist on her husband going to jail where he belongs if he assaults me and sue them for everything possible.

There was a little black kitten dead in the center of the road when I came down to get some Internet use yesterday. About 3-4 months old she looked otherwise healthy and well-groomed with a broken hind leg with the bone sticking out. I retrieved her and buried her next to Mr T this morning so she could at least receive someone's love and care in the end, as I hope she wasn't tossed from a vehicle and that she died instantly instead of people driving by ignoring her as she lay dying.

IMPORTANT NEWS:
GOOD NEWS: I and all the cats are safe.
BAD NEWS: Tree fell on house rendering it uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
WHAT HAPPENED: Back on Wednesday the 18th a severe but short (probably just 20 minutes or so) storm ripped through causing a lot of damage. I wasn't home and had a hell of a time getting back due to all the trees down, including only barely having a part of driveway available to pull off the road onto. The tree I'd been telling mom for years was going to come down and needed cut out finally came down across the cat pen, crushing the roof over the kitchen and living room.
Then to top things off removing the tree broke through into the living room area and apparently today the ceiling in front of the kitchen door (which is where a lot of water obviously came in and on the floor) fell down.
Everything is a horrible mess and while I've got the cats out and temporarily in a habitable place we're frantically trying to make things workable more long term which includes the restoration of the other house Mom's used as storage as a place we can live. When the Internet got turned on here today I rushed to let everyone know what's up. So that's what's happening currently.
In the meantime I'll have limited access since it's a 15 minute drive from where Mom and my cats are at to here and it's not someplace I'd want to stay without cleaning it up and at least getting the computer and basics comforts taken care of.

Didn't see the one I saw yesterday but when I was coming out of her house I saw several black kittens even younger than the previous one in a corner of the old house. Seems like Dot's kittens apparently survived because they're all black (one mostly black tortie in the mix) and definitely younger than the other. So now I've seen 5 ktitens there looking to be from Frigga's litter several months ago and Dot in the last month or so. I have to find better for them because they can't just live there as strays and Granny promptly started hating on them saying how she had to get someone to 'carry them off' and ranting how someone could report her and other things. So I need to find someone decent to take them to and get them proper homes.

Looks a few months old, pretty healthy and I think is a surviving kitten from Frigga's litter looking at the fur pattern that's kind of calico like she's kind of calico. Hissy of course but I still managed to pet it a little so it's not lost to being a feral that it let me actually touch it. I'll have to watch for it and see if it has other siblings around and do what I can to socialize it and maybe find someplace better for it than living as a stray.

Barely had Mr T buried yesterday it seemed like when Mom called because a relative just dropped 3 three-week old kittens in her lap because their mother got ran over. So I had to race out in the late evening to go help her which included a race to Walmart before they closed to get kitten milk for them. Then today to the vet to get checked over. I'll have to feed them every 3-4hrs for several weeks at least until they're comfortable eating solid food and can pee and poop on their own. No idea where they'll end up (Good Lord I can't imagine adding three more cats into the house on top of the rest) but right now just trying to ensure they have futures. Two calicos and an orange-and-white kitten that are tentatively named Faith, Hope and Charity for the Orange-and-White one.

Got the call shortly after they opened for work this morning. I don't know what happened but he's gone now and I'm just so heartbroken. He was a good boy even if he roamed a lot and came home sick and injured from fighting other toms and now every day when I go to Mom's to feed the kitties I'll be looking for him everywhere before realizing I'll never see him again. I have to prepare his burial and deal with the fear of taking Ruby and Puck to be fixed in the morning and try and get through the week without falling apart.

He had some mouth infection in particular a badly infected molar that had to be removed. Most likely that's why he was poorly groomed because it hurt to groom himself. As he got out of the pen this morning when she lowered her guard (happens to the best of us) and she had to sedate him she went ahead and neutered him while he was out and get it over with. She also gave him a bath and got him cleaned up. He's got all his vaccinations now, medicine for fleas and ticks and treated for ear mites and is estimated to be around 5 years old (looks older because of his injuries from fighting and being so scruffy because he couldn't groom himself well). Also has a 2-week antibiotic injection that he needs for the mouth infection.

Unfortunately he's also got FIV. This means he'll be prone to infections because of it (likely contracted while fighting other unfixed toms and spread by him to other toms if they weren't already infected). He may have infected Dot but hopefully not. He can live a full life depending on his luck and how well I can look after him in the future. Unfortunately as I can't keep him up or bring him home I'll have to release him back at Granny's and hope he remains living around there instead of run off. Just doing the best I can for him though and I hope he remains around Granny's so I can keep him fed and cared for. I'll see if they can slip a collar onto him with his rabies tag so that at least if he runs off because of this people will see he's got someone that cares for him and that he's not a rabies threat. Just makes me wonder if I should go to the expense of chipping him even though odds are nobody would check him if they did get him.

Like the headline says I caught Odin, one of the strays that's been living at my grandmother's since I started feeding the strays around her house last year. He's always looked and been sick (poor boy can't even properly groom himself and his butt looked awful due to diarrhea) but I couldn't get him into a carrier until today, so I rushed him to my vet (she was very helpful and said if I can catch them she'd work in any of the strays). He'll be staying there until sometime next week so he can be treated for whatever everything is that's wrong with him (hopefully nothing really serious) and get him him fixed so he won't be fighting other toms for females.

Sadly I have to add that a week and a half ago Dot lost her kittens (and Frigga lost hers the month prior). She was looking like she was getting ready to have them on Thursday when I went over for the usual feeding but her neck fur was wet and Odin actually was mounting her! I had to chase them around the yard but after Dot got under the one truck and I crawled under to get her she ran out and I couldn't find her after that. :( Next day she's skinny again and no signs of nursing so the kittens died or were killed soon after being born. So when I can I have to get her and Frigga fixed so that tragedy won't happen again.

Everybody else other than Mr T seems to be doing okay, but maybe we can get him caught and to the vet too because he badly needs it. He's been staying at the house every day recently so he must not be feeling well and he sure doesn't look it so need to get him cared for.

Frigga is one of the 7 strays hanging at my grandmother's that I've been feeding since late last year. She's mostly white and one of the non-TNR cats that have been there and may be one of those abandoned by the neighbor. She may also be Aurora's mother. She didn't show up yesterday but showed up today clearly no longer pregnant so she had them 4/2/25. Hopefully somewhere on or near Granny's. Won't know for sure unless/until they come out exploring at a time while I'm there and that'd be at least 4-6 weeks from now. So I need to keep an eye out for them and hopefully catch them and get her and them safely fixed then decide what to do from there.

So just to start with something positive got all the remaining kitties at Mom's fixed finally. Judy, Pebbles, Fred, Barney and Onyx (rescued from Granny's). So no more worrying about them. Also got Smokey from Misty's litter fixed as well which leaves Thor, Loki, Oberon, Titania, Puck and Ash to be fixed.

Dad's dementia several weeks ago had him wander out an emergency exit at a shoe store and not even noticing or reacting to the alarm when it went off. Then he punched a mirror injuring his knuckles (thankfully not breaking the mirror) because he couldn't recognize himself in the mirror and 'got into a fight' with 'that other guy' in the 'other room.'

Last weekend finally I had an emergency vet run for Nyx ($1300 ) because she seemed in pain and not responding normally. On top of a massive infection she's got an enlarged heart, because of that I need to find a specialist to do an echocardiogram on her to find out what's wrong with it hopefully. Annoyingly when I tried to get a price for the test at the closest vet (instead of the ones 3-4hrs away or more just one way) I was told they don't give out the cost, that the doctor has the list of prices and it's basically whatever he decides to charge which is insane. Oh, but I'd have to pay $180 up front just for them to reexamine her. So the emergency vet, regular vet and these people NONE of them will give me a straight answer for the price, refusing even a basic ballpark figure and adamant about not giving any numerical values. So I'm going to have to call the others farther away starting tomorrow to see if any of them will give cost estimates and if they don't I may just snap, refusing to discuss the costs of something and expecting someone to wait until after it's done to find out is ludicrous.

Well back from another emergency vet run for Jaspyr ($1k). He woke me up early, was being very vocal, aggressive and seemed like he couldn't pee/poop again. Different emergency vet this time, a little closer. He's got a bad UTI that could get worse if the antibiotics don't help and getting them into him is going to be a nightmare. Just tried and he was hissing and fighting and determined to get away before I got some of it into his mouth. Don't look forward to that every 12 hrs along with getting him in at his regular vet next week for a follow-up. I'll have to see if long-term injectable antibiotics will be better, plus need to try and get some pain killer into him so he can pee easier while dealing with the infection.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hoping it goes wonderfully for you all!

And honestly I'm lucky to be alive. Trying to get home when a sudden snow squall was coming through just within half a mile or so of the turn off in limited visibility I suddenly see a tree trunk at least 8" thick falling down towards me along with other debris and it slammed into the top of my car shattering the windshield, covering me with shards and glass powder. Despite still running fine of course the car is naturally unrepairable and had to deal with the accident report, checked out by an ambulance to be sure I wasn't injured (just lots of tiny blood spots on my hands and a glass shard slice on the wrist from the shrapnel). 5 minutes later it's all gone but the aftermath. So have to get a new car as soon as possible while having to go over tomorrow and make multiple trips removing everything from mine including the now dirty clean clothes I'd just washed and are now wet and covered in glass shards.

and it brought below-freezing temperatures and at least an inch of snow. Thankfully I was able to get out and feed the abandoned cats at my grandmother's but not sure if I'll be able to get out tomorrow but will do my best as I'm the only one caring for them so what I bring them might be all they get that day. Onyx at least is looking good at Mom's in the cage with regular food, a heating pad and ointment for her eye. She's fattening up quite a bit. Aurora meanwhile is doing well here and has grown so much now that she's eating plenty and getting let out to play and get acquainted with the other cats here in the house. I just wish I could do the same with the adult cats and not just with them.

Dad's also having longer and more severe episodes now. Much of the time since Thanksgiving he's been hallucinating and acting the aggressive ass and often incoherent. Mom's not been able to get a decent sleep because of that and stressed as hell from it and I've had to feed and take care of her outside cats along with all the other cats I'm watching over. At least the kittens outside in the pen are recovering from their Giardia thanks to their medicine and have multiple heating pads to keep them warm and their Mom is looking okay in the pet carrier with her own heating pad.

My pre-Thanksgiving dental appointment meanwhile took over 2hrs to complete. Three fillings and much of it the time taken to grind away my back molar and fit it with a temporary crown (ugh that adhesive tasted like potpourri), all to the tune of $2k (so almost as much as Jaspyr's emergency vet visit). Of which btw Jaspyr seems to be doing okay, a checkup couldn't find any obvious issues and he doesn't seem to be having problems pooping and peeing (not that he's doing much of either). Won't be until next year though he gets his fur grown back in instead of having that naked kittybutt he's got now as they really shaved him close at the emergency vet for his surgery. I guess in case things were worse than they thought and had to be more invasive about his surgery.

I hope it's an uneventful and fulfilling one.

Hopefully for good now. He was trying to get out of the carrier in the car and meowed constantly all the way home. Huffed and chuffed once back in his room again, ran around and was a bit wound up and gave him some wet food to eat and played with him until he got too excited and started hissing and biting. I've checked him every few hours and left once he got too wound up again (got two punctures in my hand from one bite) but otherwise letting him try and return to normal. Sleeping will be a concern but it's part of his and my routine to let him sleep next to me at night which makes him feel safe.

Poor boy has a cold butt right now too, he's got that shaved monkey butt look because of his surgery to get the catheter into him. I'm sure he'll be very glad when it grows back and I'll be glad with everything finally back to normal.

So I got him home Thursday, he had his time huffing and chuffing as he inspected the bedroom to make sure none of the other cats were in it, had part of a can of dietary wet and we snuggled and gave him plenty of attention before he went to sleep against me for the night. But next day it didn't seem like he'd peed or pooped and nearly 24hrs without either concerned me and so he's back with the vet for the weekend for further observation even though he hated going into the carrier and back there. Hopefully there's nothing else wrong and it's just something like stress or needed a few more days to recover at the vet before coming home. Prayers, fingers crossed, etc please for him.

The filling in my lower right back molar just fell apart, right before my cleaning appointment tomorrow! So now I've this big hole, a tooth in pain, no idea if it can be fixed or have to be cut out and still on top of everything else have to bring Jaspyr home after the appointment and make sure he's settled in okay.