MARCH 15, 2022 - TRAPPING REPORT

One of our main trappers was pleased to send in this report about her 3 day efforts in the Camelias zone. 

TRAPPER REPORT:

"Last week, thanks to a caring neighbour in the Camelias zone, a feeding routine was established that pulled 7 CumbreCats together into the same place, at the same time. This effort made it easier for me to locate the cats for trapping.

Even though the rain did put a stop to the daily trapping routine, it was just after the rain that I managed to successfully trap 3 girls. Two of the young girls were less than a year old, and one was an adult lady. I was able to get all 3 sterilized just in time due to spring mating season! 

I followed all protocols from setting up the trap, to putting in the smelly food to watching them go inside. 

They were delivered to our local vet at 9:00 and picked up later. To give the girls a bit more time to recuperated, they were not release until later around 19:00.

My next challenge to to convince the larger, more feral CumbreCats to come along to the vet. I will keep my chin up and I will keep chipping away at this mini colony till they are fixed. 

Keep watching this space!"


 

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