Back to the Lebanon Big One

I saw mostly fixed cats when trying to trap yesterday morning.    I was pleased to see how well the fixed ones are doing.

Fixed black tux showing off that right ear tip.

 I caught 7 more outside unfixed cats, kittens at the big Lebanon colony yesterday and today.  I've barely had time to get the chores done here.  

2 gray kittens, 2 gray young adults, 1 Siamese kitten, 2 black adults.

The black adults I caught in a marathon car sit this morning.  I set up the drop trap and waited out two very long chow hound cats, allegedly both fixed boys, binge eating events.  I can't believe how much the two boys involved can eat.  It's unbelievable really.   

The two chow hounds, on video, eating themselves sick, while fixed gray boy Moonshine tries to wait them out so he can eat too.

I had to wait out those boys for over an hour.  Then various already fixed cats showed up and finally along came an unfixed black one and I yanked the cord from inside my car, dropping the trap over the cat and with some difficulty, got her transferred out of it into a live trap.   Another hour and half went by before a second unfixed black, skinny and furtive, showed up and I caught that one and finally went home.

Trapping cats requires extreme patience and persistence.  

In this next video, there is a fixed tabby eating under the drop trap, while the skinny unfixed black is outside it.  I'd finally already caught one unfixed black adult but even with binoculars I had trouble determining if this skinny black one had an ear tip or not.  I finally got a good look and determined the right ear was jagged from an injury, not tipped and yanked the cord dropping the drop over him or her.  

He has 15 spots and told me there were nine more unfixed ones contained inside, but that turned out to be just seven.  I'm only one short since I caught a 7th outside.  7 he'd contained inside.  7 from outside.

Anyhow, his daughters got the 7 contained from inside of the house this evening.   Thank goodness for their help.   He refused to get one girl into a trap, claiming she's too aggressive, not wanting his daughters hurt trying to catch her, and said that he will get her fixed.  Then there's an unfixed boy with a heart murmur.   So those two remain unfixed in his place.  The rest, at last, will be fixed.

14 in all will go with me to Portland to be fixed tomorrow.

I don't know how many more outside are unfixed.    By tomorrow evening, I will have taken 48 of his cats to be fixed and gotten 11 unfixed kittens into various rescue situations.  That is 59 cats helped.  At one location.

16 of the outside cats, 11 kittens and 5 fixed adults, now placed too, which makes a big difference.

I'm proud of my effort.