Fixing Feral cats

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Animals4Life

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Cowgirl said:
I would do the females first if I were you. It only takes 1 male to breed the gals, so even if you neuter 9 out of 10 males you'll still get kittens. Controlling the females first would give you the quickest results. Good luck! :howdy:
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When I did a large trapping on a farm (30+ ferals) I just took whomever I was able to get in the traps until I got them all. I got all of their ears notched so I knew who was done already and besides that, most of them are too smart to get caught again so I feel it is best to trap and go with whomever you catch. I have a humane trap as well if you need to borrow it let me know! I also set up large enclosures in my barn and put all of the kittens in there once they were altered and I was able to tame almost all of them and adopt them out. The rest have made nice semi-feral barn cats.
 
Loper

Loper

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Inkpen said:
Nice BIG dude!! Beautiful face..with a few ticks...

Loper..count me in for the trapping an I can help you set up after care cages... I was with the feral cat group here in Calvert....

We can use the big coyote cage to trap a lot of the cats at once.

When can you get apointments at Clinic?
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River Rat brought me a bunch of cages yesterday and got me in touch with Lucky Ones in Charlotte Hall and they only do Thursdays (can only trap 5 at the max to bring in at a time). Well Pet does Wed and Fri as their surgery days (Well Pet didn't give me a limit but told me to call SMAWL to help with funding).

I was going to start to trap Wed but both my husband and sister will be unavailable this week. So we'll get an after room ready this weekend with AC to put the after care cages in (right now it is full of saddles) and start trapping next week. A couple of the litters look to be a little young yet, but I know of two mommas and their kittens that look to be over 8 weeks. The after room could also be used to house any kittens we get that are not quite ready to be fixed.

Thanks for the help offer, I'm sure we will need it! :huggy:
 

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Loper

Loper

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couple more pics
only the ones I could see. :jameo:
 

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Loper

Loper

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Animals4Life said:
When I did a large trapping on a farm (30+ ferals) I just took whomever I was able to get in the traps until I got them all. I got all of their ears notched so I knew who was done already and besides that, most of them are too smart to get caught again so I feel it is best to trap and go with whomever you catch. I have a humane trap as well if you need to borrow it let me know! I also set up large enclosures in my barn and put all of the kittens in there once they were altered and I was able to tame almost all of them and adopt them out. The rest have made nice semi-feral barn cats.
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That's what I'm looking for, whatever we get. Not sure about the ear notching though. How'd that work?
 
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Inkpen

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Vet will cut a portion of the ear tip off so that you have a visual ID of who has been altered adn who is now and needs to.
Standard practice across US for IDing ferals....
 
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Inkpen

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Here is my favorite feral cat program...meet Julie at a feral cat conferance years ago and just amazed at what they have done and what they have become!!!

Operation CatNip....
 
river rat

river rat

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You have got a cat farm :lol: not a horse farm.

Go for it girl. Get all the help you can. You could get Well Pet on Wed and Fri and Lucky Ones on Tues and Thurs and be done with it all in a week or two.

Lucky Ones will be open on Tues again in Aug.

Call Smawl and get those vouchers. Oh yea, when you talk to Marion on Thurs. morning don't forget to ask her how much/inlc rabies. Sounds as though you may get out better at Well Pet :shrug:

You are doing a great thing, ya know. Think of the difference you will make in their lives. Specially the boys. It seems they get beat up and chased off and killed so quickly in these colonies.
How many mature males do you think you have? I bet there is just one.
 
Pasofever

Pasofever

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I have lots of veri kennels if you need to borrow some...



I dont like the idea of cutting off the tip of the ear but I guess it would mark identification...
 
Loper

Loper

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Pasofever said:
I have lots of veri kennels if you need to borrow some...



I dont like the idea of cutting off the tip of the ear but I guess it would mark identification...
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Thanks Paso! :huggy: We might need to borrow some!
 
Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell

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Pasofever said:
I have lots of veri kennels if you need to borrow some...



I dont like the idea of cutting off the tip of the ear but I guess it would mark identification...
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Paso could come and dye the ones that are fixed pink for you! :biggrin:




Sorry, Paso -- couldn't help myself! :huggy:
 
Loper

Loper

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Loper said:
Thanks Paso! :huggy: We might need to borrow some!
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Holy cat, my count is now up to over 45 cats! :jameo: They keep growing and growing. I hope I have duplicated counting some kittens, but somehow I don't think I did. They are EVERYWHERE. :jameo: I saw an orange tabby tonight that I haven't seen in the two weeks we've been at the farm.
 
Loper

Loper

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Loper said:
Holy cat, my count is now up to over 45 cats! :jameo: They keep growing and growing. I hope I have duplicated counting some kittens, but somehow I don't think I did. They are EVERYWHERE. :jameo: I saw an orange tabby tonight that I haven't seen in the two weeks we've been at the farm.
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OK we caught the first 4 of 40+ cats tonight to bring in tomorrow to get fixed. :lmao: A mom and her 3 kittens. The last kitten was trying to outsmart us. :killingme
 

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Loper

Loper

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Pasofever said:
Loper 45..what a mess...good luck..hope those kennels I gave you will help..
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:huggy: Paso, they are working perfectly !!!! We are using a front porch that is all enclosed and put a little window ac unit in there to keep it cool and have your big kennels set up in there to hold the cats for tonight and will transfer them tomorrow am to the smaller carriers to take them to get fixed and then we will put them back into the big kennels to recuperate until we can let them back out again. :huggy: River Rat's traps worked like a charm. So it should only take us oh about 10 weeks to get them all fixed... :jameo:
 
river rat

river rat

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OMG :faint:

I wish you all the best of luck. Please let me know if you need any help, I am not an expert but I may be able to help some how.
I have about 5 carriers if you need them and some old towels. :shrug:
 
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Inkpen

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Pasofever said:
I dont like the idea of cutting off the tip of the ear but I guess it would mark identification...
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Ear tipping is a national standard for the identification of TRN'ed cats.
How else you gonna tell the difference of those altered and those not?

Read Julies article....it will all make sense.
 
luvscats

luvscats

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this is a change in topic....I'm wondering if y'all have multi-cat households. You know, cats who stay in the house versus the barn cats or strictly outdoor kitties. Do you have any trouble with kitties peeing in the house? Thx!
 
Pasofever

Pasofever

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Inkpen said:
Ear tipping is a national standard for the identification of TRN'ed cats.
How else you gonna tell the difference of those altered and those not?

Read Julies article....it will all make sense.
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Inkpen that was nice of you to offer to go help her with the trapping of them..maybe you are nicer then I thought.. :huggy:
 
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