More unplanned pets

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Four-footed and furry this time. Number unknown at present. Someone left a litter of kittens in the barn at work last weekend. Deliberately, because the four of them were left with a cat carrier and towel to sleep in, food and water. Donna found them and felt sorry for them, so she's been feeding them since Tuesday. They tried to follow her out of the barn yesterday, so now they're in the greenhouse. Lily, the greenhouse cat, isn't at all sure she likes this arrangement.

And, since Donna's having surgery next week and will be off at least three weeks after that, they need another home. Which is where we come in--By & I talked about it, and decided to take whichever cats were left by 4:30 tonight home as garage/studio pets. For our allergic friends, no, we are not adding to the allergen-generators in the house. But we're both softies who can't stand by and see innocent things abandoned in places where they'll get hurt (ie, very close to the main road on campus).

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Of course you can, if any of them do some home with me. We shall see. Turns out that Nemesis was the one who left them there, ostensibly as "barn cats" for that old storage barn. But, it's right off the main campus road, and lots of peope are in and out of it for storage.

The plan had originally been to make sure they were all gone by next week, while Nemesis was on his days off. But he had a project on inner campus that had to be done today (by the orders of the Powers On High), so he's still here, and when I was in the other building I saw a bag of cat food on his desk. Which is good in a way, because he hadn't left enough food for them in the first place, and Donna's been feeding them since Tuesday, but also bad because he'll be going over there later, and know that they were moved. Hopefully he won't object to her finding alternate homes for them.

One of the kittens went home with a student last night, another might leave today. Any that are still over there tonight go home with me. I don't know what Donna's going to tell Nemesis. I suggested she tell him that she was worried about their safety, and that they all had homes, and just not mention who the homes were with (just in case he'd be pissy about me being the one who took his cats).

Donna thinks he got them from one of the secretaries he flirts with on inner campus, and didn't have anywhere else to put them.

Sorry about that, dear, I just realized I'm venting. Humans. Can't live with them, can't run them over with the tractor.