COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019 | 5A
Pet Tips
‘n’ Tales
Sharing with the community
By Mary Ellen
“Angel Scribe”
A ‘Maverick’ life
The cat whyspurr-ers: Kevin with Dallas, Bonnie with
Maverick, and Teagan rescue Persians.
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COURTESY PHOTO
Director of Community Sharing Mike Fleck (right) receives a donation from Sharon VanGorder of
Trinity Women in Mission, a group with the Trinity Lutheran Church.
F
or many years now, Trinity
Women in Mission, through
Trinity Lutheran Church,
has sponsored several fundraisers.
It has tried to keep the recipients
of these projects as local as possi-
ble.
This year, by unanimous vote, it
decided to use the proceeds from
its spring garage sale for Commu-
nity Sharing and designated these
proceeds to the nonprofit’s pro-
gram of energy assistance to the
amount of $4,013.31.
Trinity Women in Mission is
proud to be of service and help to
the community, first through the
garage sale where people in need
can purchase items they need at a
reasonable price, and then to share
the proceeds with other groups,
such as Community Sharing,
which reach out in many ways to
help those in need.
Modern, vintage aircraft, autos coming to The Grove
The Cottage Grove Jim
Wright Memorial Field for
the 6th Annual Cottage
Grove Wings & Wheels on
Saturday, June 29, from 11
a.m to 4 p.m.
Aircraft and autos, mod-
ern and vintage, will be on
display for one day only at
this family-friendly event.
Food vendors will be on
site and so will many of the
aircraft and auto owners,
who will be happy to tell
visitors all about their ve-
hicles.
Proceeds from this event
will be applied to the resto-
ration of the vintage aircraft
at the Oregon Aviation His-
tory Center, which will also
be open during the event.
Restorations in progress
at the Oregon Aviation His-
torical Society include the
1931 Great Lakes 2T-1A
owned by barnstormer Tex
Rankin and the “Wimpy,”
a Les Long-Swede Ralston
aircraft with an extensive
Oregon history.
These planes will all be
available to view during
the event. Oregon played a
vital role in early aviation
history, and the goal of the
Oregon Aviation Historical
Society is to collect, restore
and preserve aviation ar-
tifacts for interpretive and
educational display in order
to ensure the preservation
of Oregon’s rich aviation
heritage for future genera-
tions.
While this is a fami-
ly-friendly event, visitors
are asked to leave pets at
home; the blacktop gets ex-
tremely hot and can dam-
age the feet of pets.
Boosters have provided to
our students and schools
this school year.
• The 16th annual Crow
Car Show is scheduled for
July 13. Pre-registration
has begun and volunteers
are needed. For more infor-
mation or to volunteer, call
Marissa at 542-517-6608.
Donations will also gladly
be accepted. This is the ma-
jor fundraiser for the CAL
Schools.
• Tonight, June 12, the
Applegate
Elementary
School will perform its
spring concert in the gym
at 7 p.m.
• Eighth-grade recog-
nition is June 18 at 7 p.m.
Then, on June 19, there
will be a delicious lunch
of pulled pork sandwich-
es and pasta from 11:05 to
11:45 a.m. At 11:50 a.m., all
school pictures will be tak-
en on the playground and
in front of the school with
Field Day starting at 12:15
p.m. All of this will take
place at Applegate Elemen-
tary School.
• Lorane Grange is still
collecting new socks and
T-shirts through August for
our men and women veter-
ans. Contact any Granger,
call or come by any event to
join us in this endeavor.
• Mark your calendars for
Aug. 3 for the Lorane Com-
munity-Wide Garage and
Yard Sale. Contact Louise at
LoraneSale@yahoo.com to
be put on the map for free,
and contact Jeri Porter at
the Grange to rent a table.
• And Happy Father’s
Day to all the dads out
there!
LORANE NEWS
Contributed by
Lil Thompson
for The Sentinel
• CHS seniors have left
their mark on Crow and
graduated. Everyone else
has until June 20 before
school is out.
• Booster Club meets
tomorrow, June 13, at Ap-
plegate Elementary. A
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onnie was born into cat rescuing. Her grand-
mother rescued cats, and so do her Texan un-
cle, Nevadan aunts and her mother in Cottage
Grove who foster, bottle-feed and re-home kittens.
For nearly four generations, Bonnie’s family has
transported adopted cats to new homes; for the last
15 years she’s facilitated the re-homing of 400 pure-
bred cats.
“I was mesmerized by my grandmother’s gentle
Persians,” said Bonnie. “When I was 20, I adopted
my first. Its shelter explained the dire situation that
his breed faces due to bad breeding, hoarders and
grooming neglect. Cats are not Ming vases to put on
a shelf. They are living mammals with needs. People
become enamored with their beauty but don’t under-
stand the grooming workload.”
Having had Persians for 50 years, I understand the
grooming drawback. People think that cats are beau-
tiful house jewelry but ‘forget’ to groom them. In two
months of daily combing, our two cats, Whyspurr
and Myster E., have shed a 2 foot-by-2 foot-by-2 foot
pile of fur!
Bonnie and her husband Kevin adopted Maverick,
15 pounds, and Dallas, six pounds. When Maverick
accompanies his family to Dutch Bros, the employ-
ees give him a dollop of whipping cream because he
is so cute sitting on their vehicle’s console. He is also
a friendly escape artist who wiggles under the fence
and saunters into unsuspecting neighbors’ homes.
Dallas lost his left leg as a toddler-kitten. Cats need
a front leg to balance on while grooming with the
other paw, so bathing is difficult. Maverick, a loving
caregiver to Dallas, solved the problem. He holds his
smaller brother down with one leg or lies on him for
a thorough licking session.
“Luckily, Maverick is an OCD groomer, so Dallas
always looks his best,” laughs Bonnie. “He knows
Maverick’s got him covered.”
The couple’s two children — Kaine, two years old
and Teagan, five years old — are the fourth genera-
tion to love cats.
“Our boy is all boy,” said Bonnie. “He is built like
a linebacker and carries a truck toy in one hand, and
in the other he’s holding a small white stuffy-kitty,
O.G., that he takes everywhere. When he is sleeping,
I watch in awe as his tiny hand gropes for O.G..”
Teagan is a cat whisperer. When she was three-
years-old, they were trying to catch a feral cat. She
sat down and patiently talked to it for an hour until
it approached her; no one else had been able to get
close to it.
Most trick-or-treaters are interested in the candy
— but not Teagan. She focuses on petting every cat
she sees and she’s announced that she “needs a bigger
bed because Maverick takes up too much room on
my bed.”
“When I met Kevin, he was not a cat person,” Bon-
nie said of her husband. “Now, he sleeps with and
baby talks to them”
Purr-obably because their sweet kitties are so lov-
ing, devoted and appreciate being rescued.
Bonnie’s Fluffy Cat Tips:
After a curious Maverick locked himself in a clos-
et, he was gifted with a collar and bell to track his
whereabouts. Bonnie uses a fine-toothed comb for
her cats’ thick undercoat and a Slicker brush for the
silky fur.
“If your cat is throwing up, look at their food,” said
Bonnie. “Cats in the wild eat a raw diet and so do our
kitties. We bought special food/water bowls to fit the
cats smooshed faces. Persians are calmer than most
domestic cats. They don’t tend to shred couches or
curtains. Our cats play with a laser light, catnip mice,
and Da Bird toys. Never de-claw a cat. It is like cut-
ting off your finger to the first knuckle. Snail pellets
are toxic to animals. In hot weather we put a blanket
over a soft ice gel pack for them to lie on to stay cool.”
It’s a cat crisis! Bonnie’s rescue group has a Per-
sians, Maine Coons, Burmese, Jungle Bobs, Savan-
nahs, Bengals, Ragdolls and Chausies totaling 125
from breeders/hoarders. For more information, visit
https://purebredsplus.org.
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