Feral 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 moreMost 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 moreMiniMo 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 moreAfter 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…
Read moreStarsky died Wednesday night. I mentioned Starsky last week as one of the last 2 remaining feral colony cats after Dark Darryl died. I was planning to cover her in…
Read moreA vigorous trap, neuter, release program stopped our feral cat colony from growing from the inside, but we still had the occasional addition from the outside. A few lone, mature…
Read moreSarge was one of the first feral cats we found wandering the woods of Dry Creek Hill. A white cat and a black cat, who later became Ernie and Foreman,…
Read moreOur feral cat colony had several extended families. The most extensive began with Mama, the first feral we befriended, and ended with her grandchildren when our trap, neuter, release (TNR)…
Read moreOne of Shadow’s two children, Scamper was born not long before we attended our trap, neuter, and release training program. In fact, her birth was one of the precipitating events…
Read moreWhen we moved to Dry Creek Hill, we had no experience with feral cats. We certainly were not looking for any. Trap, neuter, and release were unfamiliar terms and we…
Read moreThe Water Tub Monster adventure was one of the rare times when all 3 of Herkemina’s kittens were not acting as a unit. Meet Guildenstern, the kitten who was mysteriously…
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