It's a Feral Life

10/07/2026

10/07/2026

Feeding the chickens this morning, I mean the cats.

10/06/2026

I went to check out a new trapping spot, but they were checking me out!

10/06/2026

Trapping Tuesday

I checked with the lady to see if it was ok to trap at the park. She said it was ok. I planned to go about 6pm. Then, she asked me to trap the tortie's other two kittens, I trapped the tortie mom and her black kitten a couple weeks ago, and we planned to meet at 8pm when she feeds them.

I didn't get out of the house to trap at 6pm. I started feeding my colonies and stopped when it was time to meet her. I would continue feeding after trapping. I got to the park just before 8pm and she called me over from across the street. I went over and saw two already eaten plates of food on the ground and I said "You fed them?". I should have known she wasn't going to let me trap them. After I trapped the first kitten weeks ago she was on the ground crying because she couldn't stand to see the kitten in the trap. She gave me a nice donation and she told me she doesn't care if I don't finish trapping the other two kittens from the set of 5 and it's up to me to trap the tortie's other two kittens.

It is now 8:30, I still have to finish feeding and it's too late to try and fill five appointments.

I went to the house i trapped the last two weeks. There was a black and white cat very friendly came up to me. I scuffed it and put it in a trap. Yay! One cat. I tried putting out a couple traps, there looked to be a few hungry cats, unfortunately not hungry enough to go in a trap. The feeder showed up so i left. I drove around looking for cats to trap, and about midnight I found a kitten sitting by an almost empty bowl of birdseed. The kitten ran behind the fence, I put out a trap, went to wait in my car and it returned. It took over 3 minutes for it to go in the trap and I was afraid it was going to rub on the trap door and shut it, but it finally went in. Ending the night with only two cats.

When I dropped the black and white cat off at the clinic for the night, she actually layed down to go to sleep. The clinic notated that she was lactating, but when I released her she did not run off to babies, she stayed right there begging for food and affection.

09/29/2026

Trapping Tuesday (Last week)

I had five appointments, but someone asked if they could have two. Then, one more became available. I ended up with four.

I went to the park again about 6pm. I have three more kittens to trap. What a surprise the mom cat came back. She came right up to me and rolled over. I set up the drop trap because regular traps weren't working. The lady that dumped food all over the newspaper in the trap last week showed up. I stopped her at her car and told her no feeding, I'm trapping, she left. I was changing the water in the water dish because it was full of leaves when the mom cat came up to me meowing, head down, I took the opportunity to scruff her and put her in a trap.

The little black kitten i trapped last week helped me trap the next kitten. He went under the drop trap to eat and the kitten followed. I was waiting for one of the other kittens to join in before pulling the string on the drop trap but they would not go near it. The little black kitten left and it was getting late, I had to just go for the one. Turns out mom cat was pregnant. As I told the feeders, she left for two weeks to start a new family. She is fixed now, stopping the cycle.

After feeding my colonies, I went to the house I trapped two last week. I'm trying to catch a possibility pregnant calico but she won't go near the trap. I tried for an hour. She finally went to the back of the trap to smell the food, but would not go in. It was almost 11pm and I only had two trapped. I gave up on the calico and put a trap on the other side where I caught two last week and trapped one in a few minutes. It looked like a juvenile, but this female was lactating, which means it already had kittens.

I went down the street, where someone told me there are a lot of cats hang out on the street corner. As I arrived I saw one running up the street and went under a gate, but one came out to greet me. He went in the trap right away. Thank goodness, it was 11:30pm. I still needed to go to the clinic, about a 10 minute drive on the freeway, get them in the catio, fill out the paperwork, take mug shots and drive back home.