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I live in Midland, Texas with my dear, sweet husband, John. I live a life of ease and lay around all day long while my husband fans me with a palm branch and feeds me little pickles. Just kidding.
In my spare time, and due to the fact that we live out in the country, I now manage a feral cat colony with approximately 30 cats at my last counting. When I say I manage a feral colony, I mean that I am working on a TNVR program - which means Trap, Spay or Neuter, Vaccinate, and Release program. I have help from a local mobile vet, Dr. Jensen, who specializes in working with feral cats. Update on June 25, 2008 - after an agonizing rainy night keeping two trapped cats and waiting for vet pickup, I finally released them back to their waiting families. Just found out the SPCA will help me with this TNR program although I was told several months ago they wouldn't be able to help me.
Uneducated and simply mean people are always dumping their unwanted animals for "country people" to take off their hands because "gosh, we have so much space out here." I have taken in so many scared, bewildered, and confused dogs that I've lost count over the years. Many times, boxes of baby kittens are left at the stop sign down the road - left without the mother cat and left at the mercy of all the other bigger, fiercer animals who roam around out here.
Animals from all over the area find their way to my hacienda and we help them because neither my husband nor myself can stand to see a hungry and scared animal. One time I even had an ostrich in my front yard - with help from the local sheriff's office, we were able to capture the terrified creature and hopefully it found it's way back home. We never knew if it was just let loose to make it on its own or if it had escaped from it's owner.
We receive no help from any charitable or government agency. This comes totally out of our pockets and believe me, it is not cheap to neuter and vaccinate animals nor is it easy to buy the amount of food required to feed these creatures. But if we don't do it, they may not make it in this great big world.
Please everyone - if you have a pet, have it spayed or neutered. Don't be one of those people who become overwhelmed with a bunch of baby animals and then think its okay to abandon them for someone else to care for. And we all know what happens to cats and dogs that are taken to the pound - very, very few get adopted out. Many more are euthanized.
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