All Lebanon Teens Caught

 All five Lebanon teens are currently residing in my bathroom.  

Only four of them still need fixed but it wasn't fair to leave the one out there alone, so she's here too.

I caught the first unfixed one Sunday morning.  But the tenants caught the other four that evening.  They called me ecstatic after catching three under the drop trap.  I headed straight over to transfer them out to live traps, which can be tricky, if you haven't done it before.  The last teen, one that wasn't fixed yet, was running around upset at the disappearance of his siblings, crying loudly.   

These are the mom and kittens before even mom was fixed.  She was fixed first, on August 7, then one of the kittens, the black tux girl, on left was fixed August 23.  She was over two months old then  So these kittens now are close to 4 months of age.   Mom now is in a new home.  The kittens are pretty wild.

Mustachio, the one I caught Sunday morning.

The other unfixed black and white.

This is the darling little girl, fixed a few weeks ago.

One of the two tabby on whites

Last one caught

I just parked my car and the tenants, in party mode, eating pizza and enjoying the process, sat in chairs behind the parked cars, wasn't raining then, to encourage and even herd the scared little guy.  I was busy answering a message from one of them, sitting in my car with the other three in traps in the back, when the trap drop slammed down.  At first I thought an adult cat had knocked it over, but they'd caught the little guy.  I transferred him to a live trap then tenants helped me dismantle and fold up the drop trap.

Done!  These are the last unfixed cats around the complex this time around.  Nice, eh?  To catch all of them.   We wanted to get it done early knowing it would be raining even harder the rest of the week.

We were all very happy and right on cue, the rain began to pound down.   It rained hard most of last night and much of today.  I think we may get a break from it Thursday evening, for three days maybe.  But it won't be warm those three days.  We went straight from summer to winter.   Maybe we will get a taste of fall still, who knows.

A local animal transport nonprofit agreed to transport them up and back from the clinic Thursday.  This is a huge relief on me, since I had already promised out to a short cat sitting gig, from Wednesday evening thru Friday.  I can't very well be in two places at once.  I like cat sitting for these folks because they have all kinds of TV channels and I can watch anything I've wanted to watch but can't.   I love it.  I also think highly of the cats owners.  Have known them a long time.  

So anyhow, its good to have caught the teens.  It's a little difficult to have them all in my bathroom, but I set up my camp bathroom in the garage, so they can have some peace and quiet.   It's only three days.  I can put up with almost anything for that short of time.

Besides its pouring outside off and on.  I hope the lady who got 19 spots at the FCCO on the 6th, for all these kittens she has from various mothers near her, gets them all rounded up.  I did trap three teens at the complex next to her over a week ago, two of whom will go to be fixed, since I already got one of them fixed.  They are wild things.  I will try to catch two more mothers at the next door complex to go along with them.  One of the mothers had three kittens still out there, whom we also hope to catch but she doesn't have enough spots to also get them done.  Anyhow, would be so great if she can fill all 19 of her spots.  I'm scheduled to do that transport and to try to catch the black female and a calico at the complex.