Cats Galore

I put out game cams last night at the big Lebanon colony.  I had to, since I had no feel for how many cats are there or even what most look like.  I tried to get the caretaker to get photos but it never happened.  I asked for a list, and that didn't happen either.   Hence the need for the game cams.

I'm quite nervous over the job to come end of next week.   It's usually far easier with caretakers if they can leave the premises or go inside while trapping takes place.  It's not a social event.

So yesterday late afternoon I set up two game cams.   I picked them up this morning.

Lol.  Over 4000 photos on the two SD cards.  Inadvertantly I'd placed one camera facing the kitten playground.

I saw Mystic, the black mom cat returned after spay, instead of going to a barn home, due to lactation.

And man alive, does she ever have a brood depending on her, although I suspect she's a better mom than others there and the kittens know that.

Here is Dilly or Dally, one of the two whites fixed and returned, one due to lactation.   Nice profile I thought showing off the right ear tip.

Moonshine, the boy fixed last week

Adult/kitten spat

There's a different black mom and kitten

Guess who

And then there were the oddities:  two cats (that I saw on cam) with LEFT eartips.  They're likely fixed, but who took them and to where, that they'd left ear tip instead of right ear tip?   No clue.

Here's one of the two with left eartip

Here's another

It's a mystery but as long as they are fixed, I'm happy.

So far, nowhere for any of those kittens to go.  Rescues are full.  Keithas Kitties may or may not take some.  

Every day that passes the harder they become to tame.

So I got some feeling at least for the colony.  I had nothing from the caretaker and I don't want to let down the clinic, like if I have 35 spots and there are really only 20 cats.  I still don't have a number since so many are gray or black or gray tux of some sort or black tux.    

Game cams are so fun.