Sweltering Wednesday

Ok, we're going to ignore this heat wave as best we can and plunge right into stuff that's come into the old inbox in the last couple of days.

Bitty's Daughter

Can you guess which one? Yep, the lovely black and white lady to the right. That's little Dot, all grown up into Missy!! Vickie sent this along with a note of thanks for her sweetie. Missy's buddy is a little lady rescued by another STScI staff member, Maria.

More News from Rancho J2

Joy and Jim have continued efforts to trap Whiskey and Tango's mom, Little Bit. As you may have remembered, she is a very, very crafty feral who has evaded trapping and raised her kids to be almost as street smart. Little Bit finally brought her current litter up to eat (Whiskey and Tango were her last litter). They are very wild and will take off at the flick of a curtain.

Joy and Jim aren't giving up, though. They successfully trapped, and are socializing, Whiskey and Tango. They're going to start mixing Feralstat into the food to prevent another pregnancy until they can get Little Bit and her brood safely inside. Not ideal, but better than another litter since Little Bit is so elusive.

And an appeal from reader, Dan-

The Grayson County Humane Society (http://www.graysonhumane.org/) is basically full. Originally the shelter had an entire cat family plus four or five other kitties scheduled to PTS July 5. We've managed to stave that off by sponsoring most of those kitties, but all that really accomplished is putting some other cats under the gun. They really need to get some kitties fostered or adopted out ASAP. The Adventured of Me (http://tt-themisadventuresofme.blogspot.com/) has all the information in a couple posts.

The shelter is in central Kentucky, is all volunteer run, and they say they try mightily not to kill cats. If could spread the word, if might help scare up a foster family or three to take some of the pressure off before they start having to kill any kitties.

Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.

Dan, typist for the Lee County Clowder (http://leecountyclowder.blogspot.com/)

PS: FWIW -- www.graysonhumane.org, www.graysoncountyhumanesociety.petfinder.org