ON THE HOME FRONT I just spent the week watching (in bemusement) a neighbor clean up not only our feral yard cats (Sig O feeds the little beggars) BUT ALSO the neighborhood of feral cats by trapping them and taking them to the spay&neuter center and when done (usually the same day) bringing them back to wherever they were catched, to loose again ... given her dedication this should reduce by attrition the feral cat population around here ... we had usually two traps in the front yard and one in the back yard ...
She was in and out of our front and back yard like -- I won't say like a cuckoo clock bird, that's ... but I don't know of anything else that pops in and out ...
Been slim pickin' the last three nights, as most, if not all, of those who frequent our yard have been "done" ... must be pretty traumatic for the cat, don't see how it could not be, because we are "short" on the cat count at the morning feed ... however, once the furor dies down, -- I expect it to, because there was only one yesterday but she'd already been done, and only one this morning ... I expect to see most back and meowing for food ... we meow back and talk human at them to "accustom" them ... not so sure it's effective of anything but making us feel good
Once they are spayed / neutered, the vet will clip off the tip of one ear so you can see they are non-reproductive specimens of the cat species -- I REALLY object to saying "fixed" when talking about spay / neuter ...
GENEALOGICALLY -- I took a look at my Surname Contributions on backward in time from last month and something like 200+ in the surnames I worked on (MY top 10) and more 300+ most months although they don't show up in the frequency count (your top ten) ...
now in 2020, so far and counting, for the YEAR, actual profiles, Smith (95), Wright (93), Huffman, McClendon, Baker, Medlock, Howell, Brown, Bennett, Pate ... 622 profiles worked on so far this year Jan 1 to Jul 31 ... and not counting the one that did not get into the top ten -- For 2019 quite a few more than that and 2018 was from May 1 to Dec 31
AND here it is only 7th August and I need only 24 more "contributions" for the Club 1000, and have - I lost count - something like a dozen profiles I did in the last 2 days or 3 days -- I need to "deepen" the sources on them
And I still have not finished revising the profiles created in 2019 (or last edited at that time) but hope to before the end of the year ... ahhh, if I'm not distracted too often ...
Stay safe, sane, sober, serious, sedate (or sedated), sensible, maybe a little sportive, ...