This is Ginger
In the spring Ginger showed up at our house very pregnant. We looked and looked for a shelter to take a pregnant cat. It was kitten season and the shelters were all full. Finally I got in touch with SpaySA, who would spay and vaccinate her for $20. We also had to bring her in an approved animal trap. Getting the trap required a small seminar and a deposit of $70, refundable if the trap was returned. At the seminar we learned that San Antonio has a huge feral and stray cat population. They gave the example of LA, which has 30,000. San Antonio has 180,000. They really wanted us to trap and spay or neuter as many cats as we could before returning the trap. Most of the cats they see are feral, meaning born in the wild. They are very leery of humans, and hence the need to trap them. Ginger was just a stray, meaning she had once had a home. She is very sweet and cooperative. We trapped her easily and then brought her to the clinic...aka the cat abortion clinic. She was very far along. My kids wanted to know what happened to the kittens for weeks. When we got her back, we were to feed her for a few days while she recovered from the surgery and then let her free. When we let her free she was happy to go, but kept coming back for food, which we gave her. After a few months of this we found out we were moving. We had become too responsible for the cat at that point and so we adopted her and took her with us. She is fat and happy.
We found out recently that she had a gum infection and she is actually missing most of her incisors. She also had a UTI and an allergy to her food. After blood, urine, and stool tests, an exam, antibiotics, and a steroid shot for inflammation, we were $200 lighter in the pockets. She will also need a re-check, more vaccinations when she is better, and a booster shot. Wow. That's way more money than feeding her out the back door. The moral of the story is: ignore or prepare to adore!
The clipped right ear is a done so that people from a distance can see that she is fixed.
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