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Do any of you guys ever have problems with this?
I usually don’t withhold any food for trapping and trap train instead.
But if that doesn’t work or there is an emergency, I will withhold food for a half day or a day.
If that still doesn’t work, I may go two days.
I know tons of caretakers who routinely withhold food for 2-3 days for trapping, and lots of advice online suggests it.
But every single time I have withheld for two days, a cat dies (hit by car) or goes missing in search of food.
We’re after an injured girl right now, and struggling to get her. So I recently withheld food from the colony for two days.
Two of our most social girls disappeared and have been gone for over a week now, which they’ve never done since they’ve been kittens.
And another of our females was killed by a car…
All had been long spayed.
I can’t stop thinking about them. I feel so sick over it, and immensely guilty.
Has anyone ever experienced this before when withholding food for trapping? They seem to do fine if I do it for one day, but disaster has struck every single time we’ve done it for two.
I usually don’t withhold any food for trapping and trap train instead.
But if that doesn’t work or there is an emergency, I will withhold food for a half day or a day.
If that still doesn’t work, I may go two days.
I know tons of caretakers who routinely withhold food for 2-3 days for trapping, and lots of advice online suggests it.
But every single time I have withheld for two days, a cat dies (hit by car) or goes missing in search of food.
We’re after an injured girl right now, and struggling to get her. So I recently withheld food from the colony for two days.
Two of our most social girls disappeared and have been gone for over a week now, which they’ve never done since they’ve been kittens.
And another of our females was killed by a car…
All had been long spayed.
I can’t stop thinking about them. I feel so sick over it, and immensely guilty.
Has anyone ever experienced this before when withholding food for trapping? They seem to do fine if I do it for one day, but disaster has struck every single time we’ve done it for two.
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