Trapping accident... so very upset. - Page 2

Buff Boy (I know, I know, dilute red LOL), released this afternoon. Poor fella had a boo boo on his foot. Got a shot of convenia.

"Son of Charlie" actually turned out to be Daughter of Charlie!

What blows me away is that there it appears there were two brown tabbies that I thought were the same cat, and three gray tabbies that I thought were all the same cat. It kind of scares me there were this many TO trap.

...but ... goes to show the value of ear-tipping!!!!!!!

And no, the biscuits aren't done yet! We're just having fun making them!

Congrats on your long-haired male! We've never had a long-haired kitty - I can't imagine what life must be like for them outside! The very first stray that adopted us had medium-length hair, and THAT was a matted mess.

As to the avatar - nope, it's not one of our kitties. It was a free animated .gif I found searching for cat avatars. I had to remove frames from it to make it small enough to be an avatar on TCS, which is why it looks a little jerky in the movement. I'm a premium member though, so I'm allowed a bigger one than otherwise. But I should video Ming Loy kneading and snuzzling! Lazlo does (STILL!) make biscuits like crazy - but he mostly does it sitting up.

WE TRAPPED THE B&W FEMALE TONIGHT!

I forgot to take a picture - we'll get it before we release her. This is the MOST nervous cat I have ever seen. She's shown up for the last three nights at almost 6:00pm on the button. So rather than try to put the trap out once she was here (the last two times I tried that she left and didn't come back: the first time it was for two weeks!), I made sure there was tasty food out late in the day. Obviously it worked, because she kept coming back.

So tonight, instead of putting out just food.... I set up our trap with bait trail &etc.

It worked, and we're just busting!

So we THINK there is just one cat left - a brown tabby.

Oh - and we were VERY worried about Daughter of Charlie. We hadn't seen her here since we released her. She was here today!

"Charlie's Angel."

And at check-in, I told the receptionist I couldn't pick a name. We already had "black and white cat" in there (there've been quite a few), and I was feeling really uninspired re: names. They decided to check her in as Domino - just in case I'm wrong about her being a her, it'll work either way.

"Dot" is the new name for Little Black Kitty (LBK) - who has been with us since just before/around winter. She's so tiny, we call her L'il Dot.

Well, Domino was NOT a female in heat. We released him today, neutered and ear-tipped.

I really didn't know males would yowl like that!

Looking for a booty call. Well, booty no more!

Did see what I think is the last brown tabby again today. I'm not taking bets on my accuracy here, but given "his" jowls, I'm thinking (hoping) he's a he, not a she.

Well, the gray cat is back!

Though I do have to laugh. I looked out the window earlier this afternoon to check levels of food, and saw three cats eating out of one bowl (I needed to go put more food out LOL). I said to Gary, "There's three cats out there eating, I'm going to run some food out." He FREAKED. I said "No, no, they're all ear-tipped!" THAT was a nice feeling.

But I'd only seen the gray one once, so I'm glad he/she is back.

And our 3rd plain brown tabby (I thought there was one LOL) is back too! (There was already one TNR'd last year).

So I haven't checked weather, but if it's not raining, trap goes out again tomorrow.

We actually have a hope of trapping at least all the ones I know about before any kittens are born.

Right now the (sterilized) colony consists of:

Mommy (gray & white)
Stray (Tortitabby, like Spooky)
Babygirl (gray tabby)
L'il Dot (black with a white dot on her chest)
Orange & White boy
Doc ("daughter of Charlie," a classic brown tabby)
Cool Kitten (A zig-zaggy brown tabby, male. A sibling of Chum? ).
Peanutbutter ("PB" for plain brown tabby - another classic tabby, female)
Tabby (gray tabby female)
Tabby With the White Feet (gray tabby female)
Tabby With the White Face (gray tabby female)
Buff Boy (dilute red male tabby)
Domino (black & white male I thought was a female in heat before LOL). I hope Domino's OK, because we haven't seen him back since we released him last week.

Still to go:

The all gray cat (EXACTLY like Bing (Billy's brother)), and the (hopefully last!) brown tabby (at least I'm pretty sure it's just one cat LOL). It looks to me like Chumley fathered three kitties before we nabbed him. "Cool Kitty" appeared here shortly after Chumley and was already grown up, so not a cat he fathered.

The problem? This was definitely the first winter for all the females we've trapped. And as we had Mommy spayed last year and her three kittens adopted out... where's the older female responsible for these kittens? All of the older cats trapped these past couple of weeks have been male.

And... between 2008/2010, we adopted out Bing, adopted Billy & Chumley ourselves, and had a total of seven cats that went into the foster network (and adopted out!).

OH! And there was Billy & Bing's sister & her babies. The three of them (Billy, Bing, and Sister, renamed Guinevere by her foster mom) went into a crate together when we took them to the vet late summer 2008. We knew she was pregnant - but not how pregnant. She went into labor at the vet and gave birth to four babies. The five of them were taken by a different foster network, and they all also went to furever homes. (She was a very sweet, beautiful black kitty. ).

So... since moving back to the RV park the summer of 2008, that's 15 cats in loving homes (honestly, I didn't realize it was that many! ), 13 TNR'd, and (at least) 2 that still need to be TNR'd.

We really ought to talk to the RV park owner about a discount on rent!