On the other hand, from the description, the extraction of the cats from the large trap into individual cages sounds like it could be a bit cartoony, if all didn’t go well. I’ll be interested to watch – from a distance.
I would expect judicious placement of the cloth covering the large trap to include the carrier, leaving only the passage from cage to carrier, would go a long way to ensuring a safe transfer.
But much more importantly, this cannot happen because :
Roadrunners do not say “meep meep”.
They go “Beep Beep”.
We’ve had our barn cat “Cat” for a number of years. She’s very stand-offish. With the pets too. You’d think she’d get lonely but she doesn’t seem to want company. We chatter at her when she is near by, she pays the barest minimum of attention.
Will not tolerate the Chihuahuas at all. And they so much want to be her friend 
To be fair, no one will tolerate Chihuahuas at all.
Indeed! That was my response to the post, too.
The SPCA came back today to strategize about capture. They moved the cage around a little, and said they hope to do the captures “next week.” I’m a little bummed, they said they familiarization period would be around 4 days, and today is the fourth day. They brought a whole bunch more food for me to put out every morning. This is getting to be a bit of a nuisance, but I’m still hoping for a good outcome.
Hang in there, your kindness is being admired from afar.
I read somewhere a little thing which said- “If you rescue or help a homeless cat, when the time comes to weigh your heart against a feather- Bast will sneak her paw on the scales to help you!”.
I’m not sure I trust Bast to get the right side of the scale. Or even to be consistent at all, rather than just batting it around randomly.
It looks like tomorrow is d-day. They’re coming early, before I put out the food, to string up the trap. The target cats came today as soon as I put out the food, so they’re hoping to get them then. I’m looking forward to this being finished.
eta: sorry, not tomorrow, Tuesday.
Has your neighbor noticed what you’re up to?
If you mean the one feeding the cats, it is unlikely, as she is downhill from us and can’t see over the fences. She may have noticed that the cats aren’t rabidly pestering her in the morning for food (if that’s the case) and may wonder why.
Yesterday six cans of cat food plus an equal volume of kibble were all gone this morning, so they certainly seem to be eating their fill, mostly at night I think. I wonder if other critters are sharing in the bounty, the SPCA folks with the wildlife camera focused on the feeding station haven’t said.
Racoons love cat food.
Ya think?
There has been no evidence of raccoon activity around here in several years. We used to see their paw prints all over everywhere, but no more. But it’s possible they have gotten more sneaky for some reason.
Good luck! And i hope they pack up and are out of your hair soon.
They had me bring in the food at dusk, so the cats would be hungry in the morning. I think they’ve been overfeeding them on purpose? Anyway, the volunteer is arriving at 7:30 in the morning, so as to be ready when I put out the morning food.
Final report: kind of anti-climactic. The volunteer overslept and was late, which probably didn’t affect the outcome, and it gave me time to eat breakfast. They were targeting three cats, two adults and one kitten, which seemed to be all that were still around here other than the two adults that were already fixed. She brought three individual traps, into which she hoped to transfer these cats after they were trapped in the big cage. She caught the kitten right away, put it in an individual cage, and tried to use it to lure the others. The adults were too smart, though. One didn’t even come into the yard; the other was very very watchful, and while he (they think it’s a male) did enter the big cage to try to eat some of the very enticing food they brought, he managed to escape when it dropped. So she captured one kitten, and the adults are free to procreate some more. They’re going to try other houses nearby, after giving it a bit of time. I wish them luck. I’m happy to be done with the daily feeding and the smell of cat food.
My lovely cat, St. George, chose our neighbors. It is not like he was not loved and fed at my house. He was. But being a cat, he realised that next door ALSO gave him love and food.
He got fat, but man, he was a happy cat.
Back in the day, I shared a house with some roommates and we had an indoor/outdoor cat named Keaton. At some point, we found out the neighbors down the way had an indoor/outdoor cat named Kittycat. Same cat, of course. She was living the good life.