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Last night, at about 5:00pm after setting my trap over 6 times and catching 5 racoons and the trap going off, I was about to call it a night.
Manx, the manx kitten who wanders outside and I have made a slow relationship with was giving me some releaf.
Soft, after the rain. I had not fed them in two days so they would get trapped, but poor Manx would not go in. She and the other kitten I am trying to trap (and yes, they are kittens) won't go in trap except a little bit for the food I put around it. They have seen Racoons and another cat get trapped in it.
I had a can of tuna with me and opened it, about to put it in the trap. Sweet Manx ran to me crying out in her mewing, the same mewing she gives me when she spots me. Only instead of her giving a few yards, she wanted that food bad. I set it down and she slowly ate, and I stroked her head, the first time she let me touch her.
What was my response?
Grab her up and take her in.
With my two fingers, I should have used my full hand, I picked her up by the back of her neck. With my other ungloved hand I expected to grab her tummy and bring her in. But without thinking I executed this plan and looking at my hand and the hissing kitten I was holding.
She got out of my hand and ran off.
I almost cried. Manx finally trusted me, and I think I hurt her poor little neck.
Manx still awaited me tonight, hungrey, mewling, but keeping her distance.
Using Kippered Herring in the trap now, and Manx loves the taste, but won't enter trap.
Since I just moved the trap from the dumpster area to the woods, I have caught myself a male kitty. A big orange boy in my colony I named Sampson. I'll have a picture of him when I get my film developed. I had kept catching racoons since than.
I'll post some pictures of Manx to, and her cute little stub. She hops like a bunny and has a bunny tail, but is 100% kitty.
I am just real bummed out from hurting poor Manx.
Trapper Charlie
Manx, the manx kitten who wanders outside and I have made a slow relationship with was giving me some releaf.
Soft, after the rain. I had not fed them in two days so they would get trapped, but poor Manx would not go in. She and the other kitten I am trying to trap (and yes, they are kittens) won't go in trap except a little bit for the food I put around it. They have seen Racoons and another cat get trapped in it.
I had a can of tuna with me and opened it, about to put it in the trap. Sweet Manx ran to me crying out in her mewing, the same mewing she gives me when she spots me. Only instead of her giving a few yards, she wanted that food bad. I set it down and she slowly ate, and I stroked her head, the first time she let me touch her.
What was my response?
Grab her up and take her in.
With my two fingers, I should have used my full hand, I picked her up by the back of her neck. With my other ungloved hand I expected to grab her tummy and bring her in. But without thinking I executed this plan and looking at my hand and the hissing kitten I was holding.
She got out of my hand and ran off.
I almost cried. Manx finally trusted me, and I think I hurt her poor little neck.
Manx still awaited me tonight, hungrey, mewling, but keeping her distance.
Using Kippered Herring in the trap now, and Manx loves the taste, but won't enter trap.
Since I just moved the trap from the dumpster area to the woods, I have caught myself a male kitty. A big orange boy in my colony I named Sampson. I'll have a picture of him when I get my film developed. I had kept catching racoons since than.
I'll post some pictures of Manx to, and her cute little stub. She hops like a bunny and has a bunny tail, but is 100% kitty.
I am just real bummed out from hurting poor Manx.
Trapper Charlie