…and another one lost his nuts, another one lost his nuts, another ones trapped, another ones trapped, another one lost his nuts. HEY!!! I’m going to trap some more because another one lost his nuts.
Hopes that I won’t get dogpiled by Queen fans for that.
I’ve been trying to catch this boy for over a month. Its never taken this long before for a single target cat. Orange tom has been snubbing his nose at me, I’ve seen him laying on top of the trap, and a couple of days ago, I saw him reaching his paw between the bars of the trap and hooking the bait out.:eek:
It was suddenly ON. It stopped being rescue and started being personal after that.
I actually tried to chase him with my catch stick twice. Like I’d ever be able to chase down a feral cat. It did entertain my neighbors. :smack:
I was planning to get an inheat female to use as bait, but the cheap canned mackeral did it tonight.
HURRAY!!! I’m going to be late to work tomorrow and will pay the vet bill for a cat who would happily eat my face. :D:D:D
Not only am I going to have his nuts cut off, I’m going to have part of his ear cut off. AND, if the vet isn’t too busy, I’m going to hold him and cuddle him while he’s sedated. Take that, rotten cat!!!
Thank you. Its not their fault they are on the mean streets. Once they are in my hands, they have to suffer my cruel intentions. They also get shots and have to stay in cages with food and water until they tame down enough to go to adoptions I’m so evil!!!
sighs. I know. You are very lucky you couldn’t actually hear me singing, your ears would be bleeding.
Honestly, its not a joke. Its a way to show other rescue people that the cat has been fixed. Feral cats are not strays. Stray cats can be tamed, true ferals can’t. IMHO, the most humane way to deal with feral cats is Trap Test Neutor and Release.
Some groups don’t do the Test thing because once a feral is fixed and released, they don’t get into bloody fights or mate. I do have them tested because I think its not right to let them die a slow painful death from FeLV or other bad things.
Steve might be a stray. I don’t think so. He didn’t meow when I went out to cover the trap, he just started slamming himself against the bars.
IMHO TTNR is the best way to deal with feral cats. They will be with us always, and trap and kill doesn’t work. If you kill one feral cat, another one will move in to take its place. Sorry. I’m lecturing now.
Goes back to happy dance. I’ve got Steve and his life has suddenly changed for the better, even though he will hate me for the rest of his life.
I’ve heard of that before, but I can’t remember the reason right now. Is it so other rescue people don’t waste time trying to catch them, only to find out that they’ve already been neutered and vaccinated and whatnot?
We’ve got a pregnant foster cat right now who is about to give birth. She came from the home of a hoarder with untold numbers of semi-feral cats. She was completely terrified and unfriendly when we got her two weeks ago, but she has come around and is now sweet and playful. She still likes to hide under the large dresser, though, and I hope that’s not where she’ll decide to hole up and have her kittens. There’s not enough space under there for us to be able to see much or check on her. She hasn’t taken to any other spots for privacy no matter how cozy we make them. Most of the time she sits and looks out the window.
All the strays around my area have their ear tipped, it’s a quick and easy way of telling that the cat is snipped (although with boy cats, it’s rather obvious… )
If I may answer for her, yes. Plus, many cats look alike, and even **flatlined **might have trouble recognizing each and every cat she’s captured at first glance. By her previous thread(s), she does this a lot.
Yes. I’ve had several females double spayed…which means that the vet cut them open to find that they were already spayed. We have limited amounts of money to spend on vet bills (which are pretty high) so if I see an eartipped cat, just give food and don’t try to chase it down on foot.
Collecters are the bane of rescue groups. I’m so happy that your foster baby is healthy and tame. Its so good of you to foster her. Thank you so much! I’ve only had 2 tame cats have kittens and one of them did it under the headboard of my waterbed, the other one did it in a cage. Kittens are so easy to adopt out. Thank you so much for being such a kind person.
The most terrible thing in my rescue life was when we had to go to a collector’s house with a vet who euthed them as we brought them out. They were inbred and starving and diseased. Over a hundred cats and we could only save 18. I cried. A lot. All of us volunteers cried. Our awesome vet cried.
Changes subject back to tell you once again how much we appreciate fosters. You folks are totally awesome and we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you so much.
ARGHH!!! Falls to the floor from ninga attack. Can’t get up because of idiot cat on belly.
needscoffe is totally right. Ferals don’t don’t get close enough for me to recognize them and its usually dark when I do see them. If I see an eartipped cat in my trap, I know to just let it go. Me at the back end of the trap and kitty running the other way.
Plus, of course, a female who has been cut open will need to be stitched up and allowed to recover again. This takes money and time and resources, and I imagine that the female isn’t too happy about being cut open again. If her health isn’t great, she might not recover very quickly.
I’ve spayed every female cat I’ve ever had. They all seem to recover very quickly, but I don’t think that any of them were happy about getting cut open.
Flatlined, if it makes you feel any better, gingers have been proven to be more skittish than any other cat. There have been studies on coat colors in city cats and country cats, working out coorelations between coat color and basic personality.
The only ones they really found strongly were with solid blacks and with gingers. Black toms are more aggressive and dominant, and gingers are more skittish (but oddly enough, also more curious). Works out that black toms tend to be better off in the country (fewer other toms to fight with = longer life) and gingers tend to be better off in cities (more cautious = less dead)
I have a feral-born ginger tom who is the most scaredy-ist cat ever in the whole universe. He’s about 8 years old now, I’ve had him since he was smaller than my palm, and the very first thing he did when I rescued him was bite THROUGH my finger. Rotten little bastard.
He’s my big baby now, and if I wake up just right in the morning, without moving too much, I find him sleeping on top of me in my bed. Otherwise, we see him for a few minutes in the evening when we’re both very still and reading or watching tv. If we move too quick, off he goes again. I’m very fond of Skype, because I’ve been able to use it to prove to my family and friends that he actually does exist, and I’m not running an 8-year-long practical joke on them.
I used to foster, but now I have a very small house with three rescues of my own, so I had to stop for a while. Our second addition to the house (the first one is going to be a cat-free office/workroom) is going to be the foster room, and I’ll be so happy to have foster babies again.
