Feral Cat Fridays: Chi-Chi
We humans may find cats mysterious but feral cat colonies have a lot in common with human societies. There are dominant cats, submissive cats, outgoing cats and shy cats. Some…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Lanny Delivers A Surprise
Feral cats are often named from a distance and kittens can be hard to distinguish from one another. It’s not unusual to discover that an error has been made. I’ve…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Sibling Rivalry?
Tending a feral cat colony takes time and effort, but it has its rewards. One of the benefits is the chance to observe interactions between colony members. The colony is…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Robin Fuzzy-Breast
You’ve already met 3 of the members of the crime-fighter litter (Batman, Starsky, and Hutch), so let me introduce Robin, the final hero. Unknown to us, Fuzzy was nursing a…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Comet Watching
The coverage MiniMo has been getting reminded me of her littermate, Comet. Comet, MiniMo, and Silver Streak were Mosby’s children, and all were unusually social for feral cats. Most of…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Advanced Cat Trapping
Most of the cats on our property were easy to trap. We’d put the trap in the yard, bait it with wet food, and in short order we’d be trotting…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: A Snowy Interlude
I’m taking a break from feral cat updates to share a look at this week’s weather here in the Texas Hill Country. We awoke Monday to 4 inches of snow.…
Read moreCat Trapping 101: Practice Test
Fate has a way of testing us all, and immediately after posting about cat trapping we had to put our skills to the test. The weather here in the Texas…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: Cat Trapping 101
MiniMo is the last cat remaining from our colony, but it took trapping, neutering, and cat care to control our population. The first thing we had to do was trap…
Read moreFeral Cat Fridays: MiniMo Marches On
After mentioning MiniMo several times I thought I should introduce her, starting with her name. MiniMo is short for Mini-Mosby. She is the daughter and doppelgänger of Mosby, a solid…
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