Robert & Ziggy Neutering

On Sunday, May 2nd, we kept Robert and Ziggy locked in our room overnight to a.) make sure they didn't eat anything after Midnight and, b.) to make sure they'd be here on time for their appointment at FixNation the next morning at 7am.

Robert was a bit confused about the purpose of the litterbox and seemed to think it was a bed:My mom says it looks like he's trying to hatch something.

The next morning, at 7am, we took them both to FixNation to be neutered. Ringo was very confused around breakfast time and spent the bulk of the day until they returned looking for them:
We brought Robert and Ziggy home at around 5pm that same evening. They were both neutered and ear-tipped (if you can't afford to pay, FixNation will neuter your cats for free, but only if you agree to let them cut off a part of your cat's right ear). We hated to do it, but seeing as we have no money, we had no choice. Thankfully, the people working there were very nice about it and made sure that the ear-tipping was minimal. You can barely see it:
We kept both cats in our room again overnight. The next day, Robert was bouncing around as if nothing had happened. Ziggy, however, was having a bit more trouble. Not only was her surgery much more invasive (spaying a female cat is an internal surgery whereas neutering a male cat is purely external), but she had been pregnant! On the 5th, she was still very very weak and wasn't looking so good. She didn't want to eat or drink.

We ended up keeping Ziggy in our room for one more night (we made our own litterbox out of her carrier. We took it apart and filled it with dirt. Unlike Robert, she was able to figure out what it was for). We managed to get her to eat and drink and poop and pee:
The next morning, Ziggy was starting to act like herself again.

We've been checking their incisions twice a day and so far everything is clean and good. We have high hopes that they'll both recover nicely and be happy cats again very soon. :)

In the meantime, Ramiro and I have set about capturing the feral cat colony that lives in our area. One of the females is pregnant again!

We set traps last night (provided to us by FixNation) and managed to catch one of the females in the colony, but unfortunately it wasn't the pregnant one. We were happy we caught her, but we're worried... FixNation is closed over the weekend and the pregnant female looks like she's ready to blow any second now! We're praying that she doesn't have her kittens over the weekend.

The female that we caught last night is at FixNation being spayed and ear-tipped right now.

More updates soon-ish!

--Lauren*
PS: This product is AMAZING! If you ever have animal "stinks" to deal with or stains/odors you need to get out, I highly HIGHLY recommend getting some Nature's Miracle.