ARGHH!!!!!! If they aren't in roof tops, they're underground! Several of us have been working on removing cats from a site in Boston that is undergoing major development. Many of the cats have been TNR, but now are finding their feeding areas etc. being torn down for people....and to be blunt I would never have put any cat back in some of these horrid areas to begin with! They are being rehomed into a sanctuary, but sadly some were not even feral to begin with I suspect. But to make a veeeery long story a bit shorter, a friend and I were out there Sat. night, and noticed an obviously lactating tiny white cat at one of the feeding areas. We watched as she left and headed away a short distance away, and slipped under the chainlink fencing surrounding the area. I jumped out of the car and lo-and-behold, saw her babies greeting her as she vanished under huge slabs of iron partly buried under the ground! The only way into this area, which has high chain link fencing all around it, is a very long walk across fields, and (falling into the ocean) piers, not to mention all in a NO TRESPASSING area! Armed with traps, and nets, and trusty laundry bags, we walked through and set traps under the iron sheets, which in itself was not easy! One sheet of iron was on top of another, and they had been there for so many years trees were growing thru them and roots over, but there was a very big area under one where mom had apparently had her kittens. No other possible place anyway poor girl :-( I saw 4 tiny babies about 5-6 weeks old.Saturday night after many hours in the pouring rain, two finally went into the kitten trap and triggered it. I knew then that one alone was not heavy enough to trigger the trap. At 11:something that night, we threw in the towel (soaking wet ones....I sat in pouring rain for 4+ hours that night
) and left 2 kitten traps, and a larger one stuffed under the iron boards. I got all of 3-4 hours of 'sleep' on the couch as the 2 babies cried allllll night, but was up again and back there at 7 AM to find momcat trapped, but not the 2 kittens. Five plus hours later Sunday, and after placing the one mouthy baby in a carrier behind the trap, being paranoid about the police pulling up just as I had left the "NO TRESPASSING" area.(I was by myself on Sunday for the most part)...FINALLY the other 2 went into the same trap and had enough weight to trigger the danged thing! And then to top it off, I find out there were 6 kittens to begin with, and lowlife, deadbeats grabbed up 2 a few weeks ago!! GRR!! But there's persons hopefully finding out who got them, and assuring they get fixed even if someone else pays! So needless to say..it's been an exhausting weekend....and cold and drizzly to top it off. Three pure white with grey toupees, and one brown tabby baby hissy faced boy :-) Two boys, and two girls, and all beyond cute!! Are all your heads reeling yet??? Mine hasn't stopped! Back to bed for the next week... I wish...till the next adventure calls...are there kittens on Mars? :-0
Without further ado, and yes mom & babies are showing URI symptoms and are filthy dirty, but are so wiped out too...
Notice brown tabby brother never came up for air once lol?! Nursing happily away, only without dirt in his mouth.
Tired dirty little mama girl
The boy of the triplets has dots of grey on his head (he's on the right)...otherwise I don't think I could tell any of them apart!
Still nursing....
First the roof top, and now underground..what's the next adventure?
Reply With Quote
I miss you
Bookmarks