Hi this is my 3rd post this week,
I am currently going thru alot of events regarding my cats, and just today i took 3 of my ferals to get fixed.. now these were really vocal and scared but the surgeries went well (so far) and they're home. However, the way the clinic handled my cats when returning them to me was really bad... they had my towels inside the trap rather than on top of it, causing the cats to be even more scared and they were rapidly pushing up against the traps.. all of them have some blood on their noses. I drive them home and they were still scared and alert. since the clinic left the towels inside, the cats had very little space within the trap, and the whole way i felt that the once pregnant female (it was 1 boy, 2 girls, one pregnant) was super uncomfortable. i fed them 1/4 of a wet food can, and when i fed her in the cage she seemed really stuck.. like she couldn't turn around at all. At this point i was really pressured by the way she was struggling inside the trap so i left the door open, and she ran out looking for more food. She's running and jumping on top of things looking for more food, drank water, and hissed at any cats that got close to her. I know this probably wasn't the right thing to do, but i felt really really bad for her when she was in there. I will stay up till 2:30am tonight to monitor her see where she goes , and protect her from any outside threats. I just wanted to share this ongoing experience to see if anyone else gets in this situation with feral cats, and im open to any comments
I am currently going thru alot of events regarding my cats, and just today i took 3 of my ferals to get fixed.. now these were really vocal and scared but the surgeries went well (so far) and they're home. However, the way the clinic handled my cats when returning them to me was really bad... they had my towels inside the trap rather than on top of it, causing the cats to be even more scared and they were rapidly pushing up against the traps.. all of them have some blood on their noses. I drive them home and they were still scared and alert. since the clinic left the towels inside, the cats had very little space within the trap, and the whole way i felt that the once pregnant female (it was 1 boy, 2 girls, one pregnant) was super uncomfortable. i fed them 1/4 of a wet food can, and when i fed her in the cage she seemed really stuck.. like she couldn't turn around at all. At this point i was really pressured by the way she was struggling inside the trap so i left the door open, and she ran out looking for more food. She's running and jumping on top of things looking for more food, drank water, and hissed at any cats that got close to her. I know this probably wasn't the right thing to do, but i felt really really bad for her when she was in there. I will stay up till 2:30am tonight to monitor her see where she goes , and protect her from any outside threats. I just wanted to share this ongoing experience to see if anyone else gets in this situation with feral cats, and im open to any comments