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Cat Rescue & Rehoming => Rescue & Rehoming General => Topic started by: Pinkbear (Julie) on September 27, 2007, 02:31:00 AM

Title: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Pinkbear (Julie) on September 27, 2007, 02:31:00 AM

I just wanted to say to DiddyDawn, Teresa, and all you peeps who go out trapping regularly, I'd go crazy if I had your workload.  :Crazy: :scared:

I've only been sorting out this feral colony for four days and I'm knackered. And that's only doing it mornings and afternoons. If I had to sit there all night I'd go spare...  :tired:

I seem to get all the 'wrong' cats first and I keep missing the ones I know for sure are pregnant. There's a queen who keeps leaving her 5 day old babies all over the field and I worry she's not taking care of them well enough... but if I take them, I'd have to feed them every 2 hours and I'm exhausted as it is. And the wee baby I caught (6 weeks but very small) cries all the time and I can't sleep.  :doh:

Then there's running them to the vet. Picking them up after. Trying to get the traps to work properly 'cos most of them have a hair spring and go off in a breeze...

And I'm not moaning because I am dead lucky. I am going to get some help soon - people have offered to take over once in a while if I show them what to do... but you don't get that help.  :innocent:

How do you do it?  :shy:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Gill (sneakiefeline) on September 27, 2007, 14:22:40 PM

Thats why all the small one person independents are angels and why most of us couldnt do it .

So lots of applause to Teresa, Dawn, Lesley and Ron and any others I may have missed 

                         :Flowers: :Flowers: :Flowers: :Flowers: :Flowers:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: puddypaws on September 27, 2007, 14:52:54 PM

I'm so thankful for all our rescuers - nearly all my furry loves have come from rescuers :yayyy: :cheer:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Ralph's mum (angie) on September 27, 2007, 14:55:22 PM

Second everything that Gill and Puddypaws said  :Luv: :hug:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Bazsmum on September 27, 2007, 15:01:52 PM

They all deserve a knighthood  ;)  :Luv: :Luv: :Luv:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Teresa Pawcats on September 27, 2007, 15:27:15 PM

Pinkbear I guess we are all a little crazy  :) Once you start to build up some before and after pictures and realise what a truly wonderful difference you are making to these little lives you stop noticing how worn out you are. You are doing a brilliant job, keep it up and rest over the weekend when vets dont operate  :hug:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Joanne_06 on September 27, 2007, 18:04:41 PM

 :W: :E: :L: :L:   :D: :O: :N: :E:

:T: :O:

:A: :L: :L:   :T: :H: :E:   

:R: :E: :S: :C: :U: :E: :S:

 :Flowers:

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: hOrZa on September 27, 2007, 19:16:31 PM

What its says above :)

Title: Re: Girls, I don't know how you do it!
Post by: Mark on September 27, 2007, 19:20:20 PM

Yep - I agree.

 ;D

It must be exhausting, mentally & physically  :hug: