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Hello everyone!
I’ve relocated a lot of colonies before, but I’ve always had an outbuilding, kennel, etc to do so at other people’s properties.
Tonight my boyfriend’s coworker trapped a feral cat at her barn:
(Sorry for the low quality, it’s a screen shot from the low res video she sent me)
We have an open appointment this week at the s/n clinic, so I offered to take the cat and pay for surgery and vaccinations for her.
However, her boyfriend wants it “gone” because he hates cats, blah blah blah, you know the drill.
I’m still trying to get her to try and convince him otherwise. Cats are great pest control and deterrent, especially at a barn. If there’s one, there’s almost certainly more, and if there’s not currently more cats, there will be, because it’s a barn. Explained the vacuum effect, etc etc. Again - y’all know the drill.
She seems very open to keeping the cat (not necessarily caring for it, but allowing it to live there) but isn’t very motivated to convince her boyfriend.
I’m hoping he’ll be there when I pick up the cat tomorrow so that I can talk to him myself, and I’m going to continue working on them until it’s time to release the cat after surgery.
But I need a back up plan. We can take the cat, but I need to figure out some logistics here.
We don’t have any out buildings, and our yard is horribly sloped, so a kennel won’t work.
We have a small bathroom we could use for as long as needed, I’m just not sure how well that works with ferals when it comes time to release kitty outside.
Has anyone done a relocation with a true feral this way? Keeping them inside the 3+ weeks and then releasing them outside when they’ve never seen that particular territory before?
As many of you know, we also have one of our colonies at the house too. You might also recall, our house colony doesn’t get along and there’s some fighting.
So I have additional concerns over whether they will chase this cat off, or if this cat will be put off due to the existence of an established colony regardless. Especially without any sort of introduction (ideally, we would have been able to contain kitty outside for this).
Anyway, that’s the situation, so any advice or encouragement would be appreciated!
I’ve relocated a lot of colonies before, but I’ve always had an outbuilding, kennel, etc to do so at other people’s properties.
Tonight my boyfriend’s coworker trapped a feral cat at her barn:
(Sorry for the low quality, it’s a screen shot from the low res video she sent me)
We have an open appointment this week at the s/n clinic, so I offered to take the cat and pay for surgery and vaccinations for her.
However, her boyfriend wants it “gone” because he hates cats, blah blah blah, you know the drill.
I’m still trying to get her to try and convince him otherwise. Cats are great pest control and deterrent, especially at a barn. If there’s one, there’s almost certainly more, and if there’s not currently more cats, there will be, because it’s a barn. Explained the vacuum effect, etc etc. Again - y’all know the drill.
She seems very open to keeping the cat (not necessarily caring for it, but allowing it to live there) but isn’t very motivated to convince her boyfriend.
I’m hoping he’ll be there when I pick up the cat tomorrow so that I can talk to him myself, and I’m going to continue working on them until it’s time to release the cat after surgery.
But I need a back up plan. We can take the cat, but I need to figure out some logistics here.
We don’t have any out buildings, and our yard is horribly sloped, so a kennel won’t work.
We have a small bathroom we could use for as long as needed, I’m just not sure how well that works with ferals when it comes time to release kitty outside.
Has anyone done a relocation with a true feral this way? Keeping them inside the 3+ weeks and then releasing them outside when they’ve never seen that particular territory before?
As many of you know, we also have one of our colonies at the house too. You might also recall, our house colony doesn’t get along and there’s some fighting.
So I have additional concerns over whether they will chase this cat off, or if this cat will be put off due to the existence of an established colony regardless. Especially without any sort of introduction (ideally, we would have been able to contain kitty outside for this).
Anyway, that’s the situation, so any advice or encouragement would be appreciated!