Oh No! Funny Face was Attacked!

Funny Face was attacked! His face is all scratched up and we need to get him to a vet - but we can't get him into the trap! We're not free feeding the ferals anymore, and he already ate earlier this morning. He's not hungry enough to go in now, though he must know he needs something because he turned up here. We have no choice but to try - though I have a feeling we won't be able to get him in until tomorrow. Fortunately his wounds aren't so bad that I'm freaking out that we probably won't get him to a vet until tomorrow, and I think that'll be OK. But please send "get in the trap for your own good" vibes Funny Face's way!

Laurie is his face swollen at all? Any scratches near his eyes? You can bait the trap with catnip- it is an instant attractant for cats. I have had great success in using it to get those that don't want to be in the traps at all.

~~~~~get in that trap Funny Face....it's really for your own good....really it is.....vibes~~~~~~~

Poor guy - had one with a leg injury once that took me 6 hours to trap. I did coax him out from under the porch with some food eventually, even though it wasn't his regular feeding time. I had to bait the trap, walk away and then checked on him (thru the window) every 15 minutes or so.

Thanks, MA - I always forget that trick. He's disappeared for now. The trap's set and has catnip in some food. There's another feral that needs neutering and vet attention. We can only hope that in Funny Face's absence this boy shows today.

Gosh Laurie...I don't know who to send out vibes to....Funny Face or to the boy who needs neutering.....would you mind if I sent vibes to both?

***Get in the trap boys. The food's enticing and just for kicks, catnip.***

I will say a prayer for him to go into the trap

Here's sending you all the good "get in the trap" mantra I have available...with an additional.."please do not get hurt again" for good measure.

Katie

Funny face's face isn't so funny anymore...

Get in the trap FUNNY!

Any luck with Funny Face? I hope he cooperated with you last night!

Any news yet?

I hope you got one of the boys.

No luck with anybody - we had an incident that has kept the cats away. Long story short - we had our heater break (propane), the electricy had been spotty since Saturday - and we ended up with a lot of workmen around Tuesday afternoon/evening, which kept the cats away. It got bitterly cold Tuesday night (and we were so worried about them!!!!) and our generator blew (so poor Gary stayed up all night with our oven on, heating the iron skillet and walking around the RV waving it around. But with it being 9 degrees outside, he managed to keep it above 62 degress inside!). Wednesday morning workmen showed up with a portable generator. But it was 50 amp and we're 30 amp, so all our surge protectors blew up and we had an electric fire. We, our home and our cats are all fine (we lost almost every piece of electrical equipment that was plugged in. Thank god the laptops weren't!) - but there was so much activity here yesterday the cats stayed away. Hopefully they'll turn up today - although no one has appeared yet, and a new heater is supposed to be here this afternoon, which means more strange people and vehicles will be here.

It was bitterly cold again last night, but thankfully it's not supposed to be as bad tonight.

We've got our fingers crossed.

OMG LDG how awful . You are lucky nothing worse happens with the electric fire . How scary . I hope everything will be alright with you guys and the cats outsite .

Poor Funny Face. I hope you are able to catch him soon.Also wishing you luck with the feral.

I'm sorry about your bad day Laurie. I hope you catch Funnyface and the other boy soon. Keep us posted. Sam

Hopefully the work is done ASAP and in the shortest time possible. *fingers crossed*

The cats will be in the general area. They know you give them good food and lotsa lave.

Well, we had strange people and vehicles around through the weekend. We did keep putting food out at night, but because we wouldn't be able to check the trap we didn't put it out until today. We caught him and got him to the vet, finally!!!

Good news - he's not bad off at all. The wounds were healing well, and there were no problems anywhere but on his face, and none on or near his eyes. BUT - the bad news is - he was never neutered! And this is the same Funny Face - the ear notch is there! So I cannot begin to tell you how furious we are with the old vet. (This is the same vet that told us Flowerbelle was fine and not contagious to our other cats, when, in fact, it turned out she had lung worm, resulting in parasitic pneumonia so bad that she was potentially just a few days away from death. All they had to do then was a fecal smear before they sent her home with us - and we demand X-rays of all our cats, so obviously they didn't do that either!!!!!). Anyway, we're not even sure what to do about this. But this throws into question ALL the neuters, so we have to go back and retrap all the ferals we relocated to the barns.

What I can't believe is that there hasn't been more fighting, and that we never smelled any territory marking. This also calls into question all the vaccinations - which doesn't really matter because they've all been revaccinated again this year - but what the heck did we pay for?

We are FURIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh - forgot to say - he's neutered now. He's doing great, and he's going to stay in boarding a few days while we find out if the potential new mom is going to take him. Keep your fingers crossed!

Just two more new ferals to go (so far....) - and, of course, all the others relocated to the barns.....

OMG Laurie! What a hassle I'm so sorry!

Glad Funny face is fixed! Good luck with the rest!

I cant believe that a vet don't know if he neuter a cat or not . I am just ticked about that , what a *#%***# . I better not say taht in words . Do you think you can ask for you money back ? That really would be nice , yes ? But how to prove that he messed up is the question .

Well I am glad he is doing good and is finaly fixed . I hope he will have a home and it will work out with him .

Hi Hedi. We TOTALLY agree with you!!!! (And no, we're not allowed to use most of those words on TCS, LOL!)

We're not sure what we're going to do. It's really unconscionable though. I think we're going to trap the barn cats to see how many were neutered (they're all male) before we decide what to do. Of course the money is an issue - but charging for services that weren't performed when it comes to their ability to procreate, for us, is more the issue. I think it's potentially an issue for the SPCA and not just the Better Business Bureau, and we may pursue ALL of these things. And more - if anyone else comes up with more ideas.