Need to get male fixed but he won't let us near

My husband trapped a stray/feral we had been feeding outside.  We weren't able to get him to the vet when he was trapped, so he is currently residing in our small second bathroom in the basement, away from our other animals.  He hides in a small cupboard when my husband is in the room.  If I go in the room I get hissed at.  He is eating and using the litter box, no spraying yet that I can tell.  But, even tho he's using the litter box, the urine smell is really strong and is smelling up the whole house.  I really want to get him to the vet to get checked out and fixed, but I need some advice on how we do that since he's already out of the trap.  Any suggestions?  When he was released into the room, he went ballistic, scaling walls, leaping everywhere, so I have no idea how we're supposed to catch him again to get him to the vet.

Maureen

Put food into trap, block trap's door open, it might take few days but he will go there and start eating, you can start placing food bowl near to door and gradually move it deeper into trap every day, so he gets used to eating there.

After he is used to eat in there, activate the trap.

Also put towel over the trap so that it appears as a tunnel when looked from one end, that makes it feel safer. Also you can put some cardboard to bottom of trap but make sure door can still close, use zip ties or similar to keep cardboard in place.

Some might attempt to use thick gloves, but that is very stressful and in panic cat gets power of tigers and will get free or hurt, so I vote against the gloves method.

I did pretty much the same thing the first time I trapped ferals. I put a carrier in the room with them, put a towel over it so it looked like a nice dark hiding place, and they would run into it to hide when I came in. On the day of their appointment I just closed the door .

But ask the vet, too, because some vets/clinics will only take ferals who are in traps.

Willowy said:

I did pretty much the same thing the first time I trapped ferals. I put a carrier in the room with them, put a towel over it so it looked like a nice dark hiding place, and they would run into it to hide when I came in. On the day of their appointment I just closed the door .

But ask the vet, too, because some vets/clinics will only take ferals who are in traps.

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Yeah, it is much easier for Vet to stick needle to cat when cat is in a cage, some have forced containment cage (or something like that, don't know proper english term) but transferring cat to that can be tricky and some don't have such.

What most Vet's don't like to do is let feral running around in a panic or even biting scratching them, only less experienced ones might then allow cat to be taken onto table and attempted to be hold on place, which certainly will not be possible, speed and strength is something that will caught anyone by surprise despite how prepared one is.

Just warning so that if Vet is having poor day that you don't allow such attempt. Luckily it was just a Tiger, my tamest one which gave me some experience of such at Vet, I swear that cat did shrink suddenly so he slipped from my tight grip...

I agree with the suggestions for trapping.

Cats in a trap are MUCH easier to sedate (needle through holes in trap, on butt).  For cats who are moving around a lot in the trap, the doctor/vet tech can use a trap fork to confine the cat and then inject the feral cat with the sedative.

JTbo said:

Yeah, it is much easier for Vet to stick needle to cat when cat is in a cage, some have forced containment cage (or something like that, don't know proper english term) but transferring cat to that can be tricky and some don't have such.

What most Vet's don't like to do is let feral running around in a panic or even biting scratching them, only less experienced ones might then allow cat to be taken onto table and attempted to be hold on place, which certainly will not be possible, speed and strength is something that will caught anyone by surprise despite how prepared one is.

Just warning so that if Vet is having poor day that you don't allow such attempt. Luckily it was just a Tiger, my tamest one which gave me some experience of such at Vet, I swear that cat did shrink suddenly so he slipped from my tight grip...

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Great advice JTbo!   Wish I'd found this site a couple years ago.   I trapped what I thought was a pregnant feral and took her to the vet for evaluation - I had planned to let her have her kittens in a bathroom.   The vet and assistant tried to take her out of the trap as she was sitting so calmly and peacefully looking at everyone.    She went INSANE, climbing walls, flying through the air, absolutely terrifying and terrified.   They hadn't wanted to sedate her because she might have been pregnant - in hindsight I should never have compromised on that.