January – 2008 – Got the Jimmy Legs

Monthly Archives: January 2008

It's my cat in a box

Tuxedo Lady, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. A total of 6 feral cats and one indoor cat are being fixed over at BARC right now. After Wednesday's bumper crop of 4 (Grumpus, George, Blue and Tuxedo), I set up the 3 remaining traps and by bedtime we had two more (Mugsy and Baxter)! This worked […]

You tied my lead and pulled my chain

I met with PJ at BARC last night, he and I took several traps and a couple of carriers back to my house. We set them up around the yard and waited. And waited. And waited. He said in some trapping situations, he can't catch the ferals fast enough, catching them and putting them into […]

Way down in the hole

Tonight I am meeting up with some good folks who have been doing some TNR (trap-neuter-release) work in the neighborhood. I'm borrowing some traps and setting them up in the back yard, in an attempt to capture some of the feral cats that hang around. Once fixed, they'll recuperate in BARC's warehouse space, and then […]

Goodnight Irene

Milk the cat The cats and I managed to survive standing around in zero-degree wind chill for two hours Monday morning and are now spayed. Roxy was crazed from the anesthetic, when i released her from her carrier, she ran around the room like it was electrified, variously falling down or slamming her head into […]

Go away from my window

Staredown, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. So we took in another cat. We really didn't want to do this, but this little girl (as it turns out) had gone into heat outside and was being swarmed by the local males. The other day I went out back to find 5 males trying to get behind […]