Cat Motel open for business once again...I guess

Well my former stray kitties went to the rescue yesterday and already today I had my neightbor call me up because 3 9 week old kittens were dumped off with her AND I have a new cat in a cage in my room. He is a very nice and very sad-to-be-caged big male intact tomcat. His meow is so so sad I feel bad. He is just your basic brown tabby but he has no tail. Well, mid post I went and moved him to the bathroom and let him out. He was all loving and purring. I think he knows I am helping him but is still a little wary. I don't know. My neighbor said since I found homes for all her strays and now she has an extra room, she will watch cats for me if I need it. So I think I will have her watch him until Friday when the mobile neuter clinic comes to town and I can get him done for $15 and vaccianted for $10. Maybe I will have to go back out to Tiger Ranch next week and drop him off. She doesn't charge me surrender fees since she knows I rescue too just on a smaller scale. Then I can check on the pregnant cat I took there yesterday and the little 3 week old Ghost. I miss the little guy already. She said he will be adopted fast. So anyway, now I have to go tend to the big guy in my bathroom. I named him Charlie, a good big tough tomcat name I will post a picture up tomorrow if anyone is interested.

Edit: I changed his name to Willoughby I am watching my favorite episode of the Twilight Zone

Oh my goodness he is the most amazingly lovable lap cat I have ever seen!!! I am so suprised. I think I want to keep him! I don't think I can though, but he is a sweetie. I am trying to remove a tick from his neck. Darn thing will not come off. I tried vasoline and a match but I don't know how hard to pull on it. It is flat so it doesn't look like it sucked any blood. How hard do I pull on it? Are there any other things I can try or should I just yank it outta there?

He was sitting on my lap and he rolled himself over so I could rub his belly and he fell asleep like that I was all afraid he would be mean from the way he was freaking out in the carrier...

I thought I just read somewhere dishsoap takes off wood ticks..

www.pest-control-hub.com will tell you how to deal with ticks

"Willowby, next stop Willoughby!!" That is my 2nd fave Twilight Zone episode, too! My fave is "The Hunt?" where the coon dog drowns while coon hunting & the owner drowns saving him, and they wander down a road looking for Heaven, but when they find it, dogs aren't allowed, so the old man says "no", he'd rather move on & they go up a little path to the real Heaven where, of course, animals are allowed.
Congratulations on sucessfully placing your rescues & congrats to Willowby on finding sanctuary! My comp won't let me open the pics, tho

Well Willoughby is all neutered and vaccinated and tested and flea treated now. He has a few, but I bathed him with dawn and he is clean now. I was hoping for him to go to his new home in a few days but he pissed all over himself in the carrier and he reeks. He can't be bathed for almost 2 weeks after being neutered. I was thinking about getting some wipes but I don't know. My boyfriend and I really want to keep him but we decided no after our 6 and I think we need to limit ourselves.

The lady I planned to adopt him to was wondering about his likliness to spray since he was neutered a couple years into adulthood? He hasn't so far, I mean, his urine reeks obviously but he hasn't sprayed. He is so mellow I really don't see him caring enough to mark his territory...Any ideas? I know it will take 2-3 weeks for his male hormones to calm down. I don't know what to do.

I dont' think all male cats spray. we have had a few that never sprayed. My male was neutered around a year I think and he has never once sprayed. now my FEMALE will spray when she is in heat (she is the first female I have ever had that sprays!) LOL But she will be fixed soon and that is the only time she does it.


Congrats on getting him all done and finding him a home!

If he hasn't sprayed yet, I should think everything would be fine. Poor scared guy!

Also, I'd think you'd be fine using some wipes. I've never actually heard about not bathing a cat for two weeks after being neutered. Strange. When we TNR, we release them after one day at the vet if they're male and 2 - 4 if they're female.

But it does sound like he'll need a bath before he goes to his new home!

Sounds like someone's going to be very lucky to adopt this lover!!!!!!!!!

Laurie