Good morning! A PJ party…yay!
Talked to the vet last night. Sam is a girl and was spayed just in the nick of time. She is at least 6 months old (so tiny for her age!) but had not had her first heat. The vet suspected she was older than she looked when we made the TNR decision, so I’m glad the teeth (inspected under sedation) confirmed that. Alley cat allies doesn’t recommend attempting taming over 4 months of age….under 2 is ideal. So, I feel better about the TNR decision. She is really terrified of being handled by humans.
Today I pick her up from the vet and take her to the wonderful humane society volunteer I’ve been working with. She is going to release her into her yard…she cares for a feral colony in her neighborhood. I imagine they are well cared for and it will certainly be better than the Sams club parking lot.
So, not the rescue to adoption ending I was hoping for, but I ended up doing my first TNR work. Glad we got her before she reproduced. (Though she is so small I wonder if she would have survived that.)