Last week I noticed Magoo was frantically pawing at his left eye. He has integrated quite well with the rest of the cats out in the main enclosure. I see him and Ashley both daily anytime I visit out there. They no longer hide or become completely invisible. There have been no conflicts between the cats inside the enclosure. The only conflict seems to be from Twist, who is outside the enclosure. She frequently will visit and challenge the cats inside. I have even observed her, sticking her paw into the wire and batting at the kitties. I also noticed when she does that her claws are out.

I easily captured Magoo and noticed that he looked like what was the beginning of conjunctivitis. The outer rim of his eye was red, and I could see fluid clear leaking from his eye. I took him inside to the bathroom to get a better look at him. That’s when I noticed that his third eyelid looked quite abnormal.

The entire third eyelid was swollen, red and irritated  this was on Saturday, so I called the vet. I couldn’t get in until early Monday. In the meantime, I used some Terrimycin ointment to help him out

The vet numbed the eye, you stained it and looked at it through magnification looking for scratches on the cornea, a hole in the eye, or anything that would explain why the third eye was so inflamed. Not seeing anything, jumping out at him, he did a complete saline flush on both the eyes and sent me home with different medicine. Instead of ointment, these are drops that contain steroids. I was cautioned to not use them with any other cat unless directed by a veterinarian because if a kitty has a scratch or a hole in the eye or near the eye, the steroids will damage the eye further.

I was going to put Magoo back into the introduction cage for the duration of the run of the medicine 6 to 10 days. However, I haven’t done that and I haven’t been sorry. He isn’t hiding when I come into the enclosure, he comes straight up to me. He allows me to pick him up sit down in the chair and put the drops in. When I think of how he acted inside the house when it came to medicine. The difference between those two cats is night and day. I thought I was doing the right thing and keeping both him and Ashley inside and this just proves that when it comes to rescuing stray cats. Sometimes they don’t read the rulebook. Sometimes they make their own rules.

I also was recently alerted that I have been placed in the number two spot on Feedspot’s Top 25 Cat Behavior Blogs  i’m grateful that there are people still out there who are reading this, even though I’m not writing in it on a regular basis.

l have been a bit absorbed in other issues here at the house, including Kota, who now has other health challenges ahead of him  Currently, he is doing better, then he was a few weeks ago. But I know that could change at any time. It’s been determined that he has an abnormally large spleen, (which as I found out) is fairly normal in two breeds: Golden Retrievers and German Shepherds. What is it common is the mass they see at the tip of it. He also has started eating better, and he is gaining weight again instead of losing so much  he has gone from 85 pounds to 93 pounds in the last month.

Slip, is still giving me the slip every time I try to approach him. I was hoping this heavy rain that we’ve had recently, which has caused by creek to even overflow a bit would bring him closer inside to the other kitties. But he still beats a hasty retreat back to the creek, every time I try to approach him. He is a male, thankfully, the other day, when he was running from my presence, this time is tail was up, and I was able to see he has been neutered! That’s why there’s been no fighting between him and the other cats.

they are supposed to finish my well today, and I will finally have water leak pressure inside the house when they’re done. Then I won’t have to listen to Harry Potter’s snake that is living in my drains recently.That’s the only way I can describe the noise that happens when I flush the toilet or take a shower. The guys tell me that it’s because of air and the fact that the water is coming from such a large distance inside of a hose instead of inside the pipe. They promised me that by 10 o’clock this morning I will be up and running on both wells!

All of us here, both two-footed and four-footed, we hope everyone is now safely home. Not stuck inside some airport, waiting to return home while searching for your misplaced luggage. Or dealing with severe weather conditions.

We are currently doing well as far as the cats go here. We had a bit of a hiccup over the holidays when my pump in the well house decided to melt! I had no idea that was even possible but apparently it is. My neighbor was kind enough to allow me to draw water from her hose, so all kitties were able to get plenty of water. The pump apparently is so old. It is now obsolete. A new pump will be delivered on the 12th. Since I have two wells, two of the workers from the recent build, were kind enough to come over and do their magic. They connected my irrigation well to my house well and I have both hot and cold water now. We were without water for four days because of the holidays. Thankfully, that is no longer the case. They did this all for me free gratis for which I am over the moon thankful.

I am also extremely grateful for those of you who opened up your hearts and donated last year to what we do here. I can honestly say if it weren’t for you, I don’t think we would still be afloat. But we are still in the fight, and I am still trying my best to trap or bond with Slip my newest black cat arrival. (He doesn’t get that name for nothing! LOL) however, I am nothing if not persistent.

For those of you who donated, I will get your receipts to you as soon as I can. I am hoping next week I can actually have enough time to sit down and write out the emails and send the receipts. If you need it sooner than that please let me know, and I will do my best.

Right now we have been slammed with several of the storms which are hitting the West Coast. Thankfully, we do not get the front of the storm, but we do get the residual. I did learn last week on the news they announced that we are no longer considered a drought state. But we still do need to maintain steady but not over bearing rainfall until winters end. The weather has been so unpredictable. Who knows what’s going to happen. It’s all really in God’s hands.

I noticed this morning, when I was feeding. There is quite a bite to the wind. I’m hoping that doesn’t mean that we will be getting freezing temperatures. Speaking of freezing temperatures, I’ve reached out to several weather organizations in the Pacific Northwest about my bubble dance that I experienced a few weeks ago. I finally got an answer most of the weathermen were puzzled. None of them had ever heard of anything like that. So I went larger and contacted the Pacific Northwest National Weather ServiceThey told me that what I experienced is extremely rare. But it is fog bubbles from fog that due to atmospheric issues fails to form. They appeared to be quite excited that I had this experience. So at least now I know I don’t have fog on the brain, that I wasn’t hallucinating from lack of sleep. There actually is a rare phenomenon when fog is beginning to form and for whatever reasons in the atmosphere cannot do so.

I wish all of you a safe and sane start of the new year. I hope all of you are well, happy. Please  make sure that in your day you spread at least one or two acts of kindness around you. That could make a real difference in someone’s life. I know recently it has in mine