Not So Feral Trap-Neuter-Return 2011-03-14.AVI

This orange and white tabby boy had never been seen at our friend's house before but was on the porch when Kiff and I drove up to set a trap. The other boy was caught in the drop-trap. We think he might be the one which has been described to us as "With Roger's Markings" (another cat trapped and caught (and put up for adoption) across the wall from where the red tabby was trapped. Within about an hour of setting the trap our friend called to let us know that we had a cat in the trap that they had never seen before. The grey tabby boy is missing a tail... it is mostly healed, but the the skin is still figuring out what to do with the stub of the tail. His shaved area was scabby... looked like they could have been from scratches.

We will return them tomorrow and introduce them to our friend before we return/release them. They are currently (a little over a day since they were trapped on March 12th (2011)) in carriers on top of the washer and dryer. The room smells of un-neutered-male-cat urine.

I (and my spouse) love working with stray and feral cats in Albuquerque. We wish the need did not exist for caring for the millions of stray and feral cats in the city but since there is the huge population it's nice to be part of the Trap-Neuter-Return, otherwise called T-N-R or Trap-Neuter-Release, effort here. We have been finding lots of friendly male cats in this particular neighborhood... which are hard to deal with because you can't just trap them, take them to the Street Cat Companions clinic, pick them up and hold them over night (the "recovery" period in TNR lingo), then bring them back and release them. They have access to food and water in a number of places (that we know of, there are probably more that we don't know about). We drop them off in the same place that we trap them.

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