Recent Content by susan wolcott

I wasn't asking about photography as art but more as sleuth. I want to mount a camera and leave it to photo the shy cats who come out at 2 am after I've gone. I'm interested in the art though and maybe someday I'll have time to look into it. Meanwhile your photos are awesome! I especially...

It's hard to tell one from the other in some cases because people pet wild-born cats but do not take them in so they become partially tame and also because trapped cats are so scared they will spit even if they are tame. I try to get to know the cats in my colony and observe them when they are...

There is some thought that if 64%-70% of the feral colony is sterilized then the colony has attained "stability" in which incoming cats (born, wandering in) equals outgoing cats (dying, leaving). Apparently this is proven out for preventing disease epidemics. Apparently it is also...

You could put an ad in your local paper to ask for donations to helpsterilize these cats. There is a group here who simply put in an ad saying: The city's feral cats need your help. Call xxx-xxxx." and got help. You need to call around to shelters and rescue groups to find out who offers...

It sounds like its way too late to respond, but I would have said, "Forget making friends with the cat -- trap the cat. Soon the cat will forget all about it and will be a survivor." When I started I wasted lots of valuable time in late fall trying to befriend cats and coax them to me. It was...

Jim I have been wanting to film the secret lives of feral cats. I have different people build the 21 cat shelters I have placed and each one has a little different twist as everyone thinks they can go one better than the plans. Which ones do the cats prefer? Do the cats bunk down with...

You get points for thinking ahead! Someone here TNR'd a cat colony for a friend, did not tip or notch or tattoo the cats, but took pictures. Now no one else can help the caregiver because WE don't have the pictures. This system did not work even in her own colony because sometimes it's hard...

In the area where I trap, one of the ferals was found with her skull smashed in. I have also received reports of factory workers shooting bee-bees at cats on teh fence. A cat in a trap is helpless and people are cruel, escpecially to cats. But I read a warning on a Texas website that made my...

There are a number of websites that sell trapping equipment. On ething I've been meaning to buy because it's so very useful is a trap/cage comb. You can use this to squish a cat to the side of a cage to give him shots (thereby allowing keeping a feral in a cage prior to veterinary work) and...

IMHO all sterilized ferals should be eartipped, but the vets do not do it here unless you ask for it and specify in detail what you want done (I have asked for eartip and gotton a 'notch' in which no skin was removed and I could not tell when I trapped him later if he'd already been done)...

It's a sad, sad, thing, but if you could not afford to take her in and spay her before she wss pregnant, then how are you going to be able to afford to care for and spay/neuter her kittens? We can only do what we can only do. I took in a pregnant female and let her have her babies and she...

Help! I received a warning from animal control taped to my front door that only 3 cats are allowed per house, but I have 14 foster cats (plus 3 cats of my own, plus 3 dogs) as a result of a massive TNR effort in which I have sterilized 160 cats from two adjacent colonies, provided insulated...