NoahsMommy
07-11-2003, 05:24 PM
Whew....it sure was fun last night. I swear, Richard's location thing is SO right, Californian's are quite easily amused. ;)
GOAL: catch two (darkish colored) kittens and mama cat (two kittens were caught the night before)
I met Carol (the woman we got Hermoine from and helped me try and trap the work cat, Gracie) at 9:00 behind a strip mall, up against a freeway. (WHY do they like it there??) At about 10:15 we both swore we heard a trap and lots of movement in the bushes. About five minutes later, out comes a tortie kitten to get some water from the gutter. ( :( ) We stayed in the car and watched while tortie proceded to lay down on some concrete and relax! We waited 30 minutes and she was still there, so we used the light of our flashlight to pursuade her to go towards the food filled traps.
We went and checked the traps and NOTHING!!! :(
We decided to do a dumpster run...driving around, checking the area for "kitty eyes" with our flashlight. Guess what we found??
A white/orange kitten frolicing behind the Target store! Carol was upset cause the area used to be a place people would just dump their cats (WHY???? I can't imagine a more horrible place for cats to live) and was worried it was starting again...that there were more than just ONE mama cat.
Anyway, we drove back and resumed our watch. Saw ANOTHER white kitten on our end of the parking lot, chasing a fly or something. We tried to use our flashlight trick and she went the opposite way.
At about 12:30 we checked the traps and found....a TOM!!! He was gorgeous!! He's an orangie with the greenest eyes I've seen. I KNEW he wasn't a total feral by the pleading meow he gave us. Long story short, he got fixed today and is going to PetCo on Sunday to see if he can be adopted. Carol said he was really sweet this morning! :)
Now...the fostering.
The kittens she found need to be socialized and I'm going to do it. I know they are older than Hermie (at least I think so), so I think they'll be OK. We'll be using our outdoor enclosure...so our babies wont have any outdoor play time for a bit. But, it'll be OK.
They get fixed on Wednesday as well as all their tests and shots. So I assume I'll get them on Thursday morning. :)
We go back to our stake out post on Sunday night to catch more. Wish us luck! :)
GOAL: catch two (darkish colored) kittens and mama cat (two kittens were caught the night before)
I met Carol (the woman we got Hermoine from and helped me try and trap the work cat, Gracie) at 9:00 behind a strip mall, up against a freeway. (WHY do they like it there??) At about 10:15 we both swore we heard a trap and lots of movement in the bushes. About five minutes later, out comes a tortie kitten to get some water from the gutter. ( :( ) We stayed in the car and watched while tortie proceded to lay down on some concrete and relax! We waited 30 minutes and she was still there, so we used the light of our flashlight to pursuade her to go towards the food filled traps.
We went and checked the traps and NOTHING!!! :(
We decided to do a dumpster run...driving around, checking the area for "kitty eyes" with our flashlight. Guess what we found??
A white/orange kitten frolicing behind the Target store! Carol was upset cause the area used to be a place people would just dump their cats (WHY???? I can't imagine a more horrible place for cats to live) and was worried it was starting again...that there were more than just ONE mama cat.
Anyway, we drove back and resumed our watch. Saw ANOTHER white kitten on our end of the parking lot, chasing a fly or something. We tried to use our flashlight trick and she went the opposite way.
At about 12:30 we checked the traps and found....a TOM!!! He was gorgeous!! He's an orangie with the greenest eyes I've seen. I KNEW he wasn't a total feral by the pleading meow he gave us. Long story short, he got fixed today and is going to PetCo on Sunday to see if he can be adopted. Carol said he was really sweet this morning! :)
Now...the fostering.
The kittens she found need to be socialized and I'm going to do it. I know they are older than Hermie (at least I think so), so I think they'll be OK. We'll be using our outdoor enclosure...so our babies wont have any outdoor play time for a bit. But, it'll be OK.
They get fixed on Wednesday as well as all their tests and shots. So I assume I'll get them on Thursday morning. :)
We go back to our stake out post on Sunday night to catch more. Wish us luck! :)