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Welcome to TCS! Thank you for everything that you do for them! I love your thread and just featured it on the main page as well. Badge awarded, of course!
Hey
I'm pretty new to trapping ferals but I have loved them for a few years now & I think they're just beautiful and amazing!
My Feral Kitty Roster:
Penney (the first mother)
Edie (Penney's daughter)
Echo (Penney's son)
Willow (Penney's daughter, caught and adopted by a friend - she recently passed away from an illness, so sad!!)
Sephora (Penney's daughter from a more recent litter)
- Nameless (to be named soon, Sephora's kitten)
- Darby (Sephora's kitten)
- Oliver (Sephora's kitten)
- Socks (Sephora's kitten)
- Yoda (Sephora's kitten)
- Cheetah aka Safari (Sephora's kitten)
- Fluffy (Sephora's kitten)
Gunner (Spehora's mate, father of kittens)
Ash (Penney's son, Sephora's full brother)
(one unnamed female, sister of Sephora)
(one unnamed male, brother of Sephora)
August 2014: Captured Edie at 4 months old and brought her home. Captured Echo one week later and brought him home too. They were meant to be people cats, they acclimated very quickly and they are now in charge of this household haha! They just turned one year old last month and they're happy, healthy, amazing kittys!
2014-2015: Always trying to catch or trap Penney. She's way too smart! She had another litter in August 2014 and the kittens were in an unreachable area, by the time they came out from their nest they were very mobile and hard to catch.
March 2015: Trapped Gunner, took him to the shelter for TNR and he's living out his non-kitten-making life
April 2015: Sephora had kittens 6 weeks ago. I finally located them and was able to extract them from their VERY unsafe and trash filled home. I attempted to capture Sephora with a drop trap using kittens as bait but she did not fall for it. One day later I trapped her in a regular trap by using tuna and also a hand towel that her kittens slept on the previous night. I brought Sephora to where the kittens are being fostered at my place of business and she had a bit of a meltdown but settled in after not too long. Everyone went to the vet yesterday. The kittens are 6 weeks old and healthy, Sephora's snap test came back negative. The vet couldn't handle her and we couldn't catch her after he let her out of the carrier (I told him she was feral and he just let her out!!) so he suggested I just have her spayed. We caught her in a net and he gave her anesthesia, I stayed until she fell asleep. Surprisingly, she doesn't hate me today! I thought she wouldn't trust me; we had made huge progress over the 5 days I had her before going to the vet and she still trusts me! the full story including photos are in this thread (http://www.thecatsite.com/t/295738/help-advice-for-my-trapping-dilemma), she's a princess now and she's just soaking up every bit of love she can get! I am going to adopt her and she's going to come live with Edie and Echo, her older siblings, in a couple weeks.
Today: Saw Penney for the first time in a week, so is SO pregnant. I have been setting traps every day and hoping to catch her before she has her litter! I didn't get her today but I did get Ash, her beautiful siamese/tabby son from the same litter as Sephora. He's going to be neutered tomorrow and I will TNR him
Kitten Update: Sephora's 7 kittens are getting very active and playful! 3 of the 7 are spoken for yay! I am only adopting kittens out to people I know who I know will give them great lives! Nameless, Yoda, & Cheetah are spoken for....4 to go!
I absolutely love my little feral kitty colony and was told I should post here <3 Thanks for reading!!