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Code2High
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Aug 07, 2013

Visualization request!

So, there was a lay-off from the cat TNR activities while I was moving and recuperating. But I am back in it now, with both feet, I guess.

Thursday evening I'll be trapping a group of cats at a neighbor's house, right across the street from me. There are seven, count them SEVEN that I need to get with one big pull of my strings/sticks, in six traps. Mama and four young kittens, plus two grown ones from her litter last year. The babies are about four months old. They all hang out and eat together, so they all have to be trapped simultaneously.

They "should" be very easy to trap, they are running into the traps before the food goes in. ( I had to push one out of the way tonight and these are third generation feral cats, for Pete's sake.) Feral or not, they like canned food. A LOT. And we've been feeding them in traps for a week now.

So please feel free to visualize me posting that I've got all seven in custody, ready for their Friday AM snipping appointment. It's in town about ten minutes away, so that will be a lot easier than previous events.
  • They will be spayed/neutered, ear tipped, vaccinated, and given a pain shot all before they wake up.

    Rough couple of days for them and I DO feel like a traitor but.... they will be so much happier and healthier, and so will the local bird population. Not to mentioned the retired couple that's been feeding them.
  • Yay! Does the vet up there also give them shots? Good job, you traitor, you. :W
  • Staff for trapping, transport, care for mandatory hold period..... Euthanasia drugs...

    Seven cats are not very happy at all with me tonight, and their reproductive careers will be ending tomorrow morning. Worked like a charm! Finishing cleanup there then dinner for me while they calm down before I shift them around for the night. Pics later.
  • Nice item on tonight's local NBC news about TNR (trap-neuter-release) programs and how the feral cats are caught, fixed and turned back to where they were. Reportedly it costs LA county $250 to catch, transport and euthanize a stray cat, so TNR is actually saving the county money. How could that possibly be, $250? If true, no wonder the state is broke. :E
  • T-minus three hours.......

    Last night and the night before were great. Piled up a little in the traps but still it should have worked. Tested the string/stick set-up each night. Cats ran for a minute the first time, half a minute the second. Sticks came out simultaneously. All indications are good.

    Now I just gotta go catch the little buggers. Really antsy today waiting.
  • Oh, piece of cake! These guys don't know what's coming. The ferals in RC were far too savvy. Visualizing....
  • Susan, you sure the heck ain't gonna have any problems walking through that "Pearl Gate"!

    Here's to seeing a photo of six of these soon!