One tested postive

Just a baby, neutered and scared, waiting to be released back to his home.

This one wasnt so lucky. He will never be released to the wild again but nor will he be euthanized.

I was to pick up the cats after they were spayed and neutered. There were 6 cats in cages to be brought to my home to recover and then be released. By a turn of events, the humane society was full and couldnt accept the cats on the appointed day of delivery. Our area was one of the selected locations for money from Mission Orange, so people and cats and organizations were participating in the reduced cost of spaying.

Our cats were brought to another service for their surgery and testing. On Friday of the holiday weekend, I learned 1 cat tested postive. I was so fearful it was my white cat with the turquois eyes whom I had named Feral Princess. It was the biggest cat, a male named Tiger.

That facility didnt believe in euthanizing cats but the humane society felt a positive cat couldnt be released back to infect his colony. The told me they would stay open late for me to return with the cat to be put down.

At this point, I was as alone and abandoned as these anesthetized cats. For me, I simply couldnt be a part of a death car transporting the cats, still in their traps to the humane society, leaving 5 in my car and dropping off the 6th to be ended. I called people I knew- no one was available- no one could even help drive the cats- I had a corolla.

A man I knew who had property and his own view on life and people and animals, said he would not allow the cat to be put down. Bring the cats to him to recover. At this point I felt I was selling my soul to allow this cat to live for reasons which will remain undisclosed- a cat I didnt know- since I couldnt recall this cat trotting up to me to be fed.

Feral cats on the property happily eating.

In an airconditioned mobile home, with porches to the outdoors, 24 hour TV (usually on sports per the owners taste which he feels the cats must enjoy also), regular meals, couches, and toys, etc. lives Tiger with a new group. Tiger was described as one of the meanest cats met- but he is entitled to his temper, never asking to be saved, or trapped, or tested. He is safe; he is alive; he is pissed. He has adjusted. He still hates humans. He is a feral FIV+ cat. The one cat in the window is another + cat.

Many cats owe gratitude to this man who operates with his own money his own sancutary. There are chickens, goats, minature horses, offspring ofhis favorite dog live in the house. There are free running ferals outdoors. Another part of the house contains house cats- who have acess outdoors. They all enjoy privacy and like facility for abused women and children, its location remains a secret too outsiders.