Poor Guy's Cat Rescue

26/12/2025

I left fingers at the vet to stay for a few days, her fever was still 104.5 this morning.

Down to just under $1000 in checking told January 31st. That's for me and the cats to live on. Currently owe the vet $1000, been skipping food for myself and things, cats will always eat first. Been wearing the same pair of daily disposable contacts for 5 months, glasses I have make me nauseated. I just wanna get everything synced up so I can stop worrying.

Covington County Veterinary Care will take donations under my name, Charles Higdon.
Their number is 334-222-1605, our PayPal is paypal.me/poorguyscatrescue

24/12/2025

Fingers is the vet with a 104.8 temp. She hasn't eaten in over a day. If anyone can call 334-222-1605 and chip in towards the vet bill under Charles Higdon, thanks as we still owe them for Rabbit's surgery and 4 spays.

24/12/2025

Tried moving the carpet shampooer...and dammit...I was at a weird angle and the dirty water reservoir dumped about two gallons of filth on an area the size of a welcome mat...not a good start.

23/12/2025

It's going to be tight until the end of January. Just made my Chapter 13 payment, left with $1400 in personal checking and $20 in cat account.

That's for food for cats and me, gas, litter, vet, and thats pretty much it. I use about 4 to 5 pails of Tidy Cat ($20 each), 4-5 30lb bags of Friskies dry ($30 each), 5 cases of the 40 can packs of Friskies ($30 each) per week. Obviously if I had to, the canned is a luxury as truthfully I mix it with the dry as an appetizer...still though I don't want to.

Fingers, the new polydactyl, has a vet appointment. Something is off, she had a fever last night that broke. She acted fine until it broke, since then she's OK, but not OK. Her gums are pink, she doesn't seem to be in pain anywhere, but she just kind of seems like she feels bad. She didn't eat this morning, she seems tired, but isn't sleeping...not sure how to explain it...like she just feels bad. We owe the vet currently, close to $600.

I updated Chewy and Amazon wishlists, please help if possible, od PayPal at paypal.me/poorguyscatrescue

Thanks for anything.

https://www.chewy.com/g/poor-guys-cat-rescue_b90194621 -list&wishlistsortby=AVAILABILITY

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3O4R3B40MXTW8?ref_=list_d_wl_ys_list_1

This rescue was funded originally in response to rejection and deferral by all of the big name groups. I only wanted to save a colony

20/12/2025

Mom came in yelling my name, it took a minute to get the cats out of my lap.

She asked if I had a kitten in the yard...obviously no. She had a healthy looking kitten in her hands, it's several months old.

The nearest neighbor is about 1/10th a mile away, real cat hating pieces of ...well. It obviously didn't come from there. If it isn't a dog, they kill it.

Mom sat the kitten on the counter and it immediately began purring and loving. I noticed when it walked, something was odd. It took my brain a minute, the baby is polydactyl, looks like one extra on each front foot and one extra on one back foot.

She is healthy looking, fat, friendly, and was ravenous. She probably a Christmas gift someone didn't want.

18/12/2025

Had to run to the bathroom when I got home, yay colitis. Woke up two of three kitties that were sleeping in the tub. Someone always drags a towel in, not sure who.

There's Ginger the siamese, Lion the small tabby, and Foot the big ball of fluff they're lying on.

18/12/2025

Geez, hardly bought anything and it was $201 with coupons and sale. A 30lb bag of Friskies, an extra litter box, two plastic scoopers, 2 of the 35lb buckets of tidy cat, two of the 48 can boxes of Friskies and a $15 aquarium decoration.

Their prices were the same as Walmart, litter was 25% off the second bucket, canned was $5 off...ugh, that's not even a week's worth.

18/12/2025

Howard sleeping in his first bed, under my arm, with the little orange kitten I'm still trying to name.

17/12/2025

We of course have feral kitties on the property, that come and go. When I say feral, I don't use the term like many people. It gets used a lot instead of stray. I mean feral in the literal sense, as in wild, not social. All fixed of course. Some I dont see for days or weeks, some are regular. I think the ones I dont always see are still coming, just when I'm at work or asleep.

Howard, an orange and white tabby (I'll get a pic when home) was in the house this morning. The only way he could've gotten in would be by mom. She sometimes let's a cat slip out when she's going and coming. She might have grabbed Howard this morning thinking he was an indoor cat.

At first I thought Howard was Lefty or Righty out of the corner of my eye, two twin tabby brothers who are identical except for a white stripe on opposite sides of their faces. I kept trying to feed everyone that's inside, and an orange tabby kept headbutting me when I bent over, kneading his feet, purring...so I looked again and it was Howard.

He's usually kind of distant outside, not a people cat. He was so happy today, and peaceful with all the cats...I just welcomed him in.

16/12/2025

Someone at work had been commenting on "doing something " about the cats at the student dorms. You can all probably guess what "something" means.

There are two that sleep on some wicker furniture by the entrance. Staff and students have fed then and made friends. There was one person falsely accusing the cats of tearing into the garbage, pulling trash out and scattering it about the parking lot.

Anyone that's had cats knows they can get into the garbage, but strew the contents of a dumpster around a parking lot...come on, that's dogs or raccoons.

The management at the dorms here went back and looked, it's indeed a fox (dog essentially). This one person was still adamant that something needed to happen to the cats.

I caught one yesterday, literally picked it up and put it in the car. The other is tried trapping for over an hour, trap wouldn't go off. I borrowed a trap from a coworker (cheap spring loaded thing from Tractor Supply) and it worked beautifully. Mine was one of those expensive ones that go off quietly, brown in color, had to kind of special order..forgot the brand.

I have them both in the bathroom at the moment.

The one below walks around meowing amd making biscuits.

Oddly enough, both are neutered. No microchip. Sorry I didn't grab a pic of the other.

14/12/2025

Been trying to think of names, I have been back and forth between Fuzz Bucket and Little Bear. He looks like a frizzy little bear cub to me.

11/12/2025

Dang it...I went to the grocery store to get something for breakfast. I had to go in to work three hours early. For a break i went for food.

On the way back I saw an orange adult cat. I stopped to leave some dry food. The cat ran into the storm drain and a little orange kitten came out. It came to me and bit my finger, it smelt the food obviously. It was shivering and starving. It didn't hiss or run.

I was torn, leave it with mom, or take it and leave mom for now. I checked the kitten and it looks to be female from the quick check. I waited 10 more minutes, I had no time left. I took the kitten and intend to try and trap mom if I can after work.

There is absolutely nowhere to leave a trap, its literally on a sidewalk by a restaurant...I hope i did the right thing.

**Edit** Checked again now that I'm not worried it'll escape. It's a boy.