Originally posted by leslie flenner
Why can't she be trapped? If she's not hungry enough, she won't go in for food...as on another thread suggested, catnip! but you can't have it blowing out of the trap or she'll just lay in it outside of it! It can be stuck down with double sided sticky tape (past the trigger, as with food) or you could see if your local pet store has catnip in hard form- they're little pellets. If she IS hungry enough (if your feeding her, skip a couple of meals) she'll go in for something yummy!
Some cats are VERY hard to trap. It took us 1 1/2 years to trap a calico! We tried nightly and finally got her with a drop trap my husband made.



One suggestion is feed the mom cat within the trap. Don't set it, rig it up so it won't trip. Get her use to going in the trap for food. Once she feels comfortable going inside of it, then set it to trip. Good luck!