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Feral Cat Fridays: Advanced Cat Trapping

By Charles Prokop February 26, 2021 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: Cat Trapping 101

By Charles Prokop February 12, 2021 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 5 Comments
Feral 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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: MiniMo Marches On

By Charles Prokop February 5, 2021 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 4 Comments
Feral 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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Feral Cat Fridays: And Now There Is Only One

By Charles Prokop January 22, 2021 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: And Now There Is Only One

Starsky 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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: Scribbling About Scrabble

By Charles Prokop December 18, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: Scribbling About Scrabble

A 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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: “Ten-Hut!”

By Charles Prokop December 11, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: “Ten-Hut!”

Sarge 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,…

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Feral Cat Fridays: Is That Ms. Hutch?

By Charles Prokop December 4, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: Is That Ms. Hutch?

Our 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)…

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Feral Cat Fridays: Scamper Of The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes

By Charles Prokop November 6, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: Scamper Of The Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes

One 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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: How Our TNR Program Started

By Charles Prokop October 23, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: How Our TNR Program Started

When 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…

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Feral Cat Fridays: Guildenstern the Golden Star

By Charles Prokop October 16, 2020 Feral Fridays, Uncategorized 2 Comments
Feral Cat Fridays: Guildenstern the Golden Star

The 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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