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Well, another major rollercoaster last night. And now I need serious help. Much to my astonishment and glee, I trapped Milly last night. She's the one I thought would be the most difficult to catch. I should be celebrating and overjoyed. And I was for a brief time. Then I made another colossal blunder. I'm trying here but I feel like I'm not cut out for this. I did not want to leave Milly in the trap any longer than I had to so I figured I'd transfer her to the cattery I have set up and block off the upper 2 levels so it would essentially be like a crate. I got the litter box in there and food and water. I then proceeded to completely botch the transfer. She was so calm and moving so slowly that I got complacent. I was supposed to have the cattery door in place to block any chance she could escape but once she emerged from the trap slowly I guess I thought she was calm and would be super cautious. Whatever the case, as soon as she was out of the trap, she flew out and I failed to get the trap out of the way and close the door in time. So what did I do? I panicked. I tried to grab her which obviously only made things worse and got my arm scratched really bad in the process. After she bounced and slammed around the room and tried to climb everything and anything including the walls for a few moments, I realized I had to just get out of there. All night she was frantically darting around and jumping up and down on everything in site. She kept jumping up on the window sill and lunging herself at the window only to crash to the floor. I can only hope she hasn't and won't injure herself. I am at a loss as to what to do and I feel like this is a huge disaster. Tiny Tuck is in that same room but he's in a crate of course (which Milly climbed up and down on all night). Any possible ideas to get Milly calmed down and in a crate would be forever appreciated. I have reached out to the volunteers and the rescue I have been in contact with but that was late last night and the only advice was to just leave her be for a while.