Recent Content by DuranOnasi

@Faikey thanks for sharing your story, sounds like a great success. I should be grateful that the cats I'm dealing with are almost all orange which has turned females into rarities. If it were a 50/50 gender ratio the situation would be much harder. @kittyluv387 The last female has started...

Thank you Jcatbird. I've tried to explain to friends, family, and neighbors what I'm doing and why, but most of them don't understand. Here's a schematic of the cardboard invention I made in case it ever helps anyone else who happens to be in the situation of "I need to capture a cat that lets...

Hello all, thanks for the encouragement and kind words. Been a while since I updated. I've been hyper-focused on capturing the females over the past few months to prevent the population from increasing. I have lured both of them into my yard and paid special attention to one that was pregnant...

Thank you all for your encouragement and advice. Knowing that there are people reading on these forums does motivate me to keep doing my best, and thinking of updating this thread always keeps me going if I feel like giving up. I will look for one of these $20 traps, the one I bought at home...

Latest Updates: I got another male neutered today, but I sense that I'm running out of time to spay the female teen before she inevitably gives birth. She does let me put my hands on her, so next week I'm going to just come up behind her while she's eating and grab her with the gloves + blanket...

Figured I'd post some updates here: There's a very benevolent non-profit only about 20 minutes away that I take the cats to for their procedures. I explained my situation to them and they told me I could bring cats in for sterilization without an appointment because it's a high priority, so...

I do have one humane trap already, more would surely be helpful if I could get them on loan. I can't call animal control because doing so would invoke the wrath of the neighborhood upon me. The lady across the street claims that she loves the cats even if they "aren't hers", so she would not...

I will keep doing my best and hope that things work out. It was hard for me to accept that I couldn't do everything myself and that forces were working in direct opposition to my goal. I fed them all right after I took that picture but yeah, it is sad.

Went outside and snapped a picture (it's nighttime but flash is on) One of them grabs at my ankle and pulls on the leg of my pants with his paw when I try to go inside. Even if he already ate, he just likes spending time with me.

Thanks for the reply. Your empathy does make me feel better and I'm glad I'm not alone. My fear regarding Step 4 is that if I do continue to feed any additional cats that are born and come up to me for food, won't the population in my immediate eventually explode to an unmanageable level (and...

I'll explain everything while being as brief as I can. I bought a house in Florida and as I was shaking hands to close the deal, a cat walked by. "Do you have any cats? You do now! Hope you like them!" the real estate agent joked. I do love cats, and I hate to see them suffer, which is why a...