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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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…
Read moreFeral 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…
Read moreFeral 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…
Read moreFeral 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,…
Read moreFeral 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)…
Read moreFeral 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…
Read moreFeral 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…
Read moreFeral 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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