Sonia Traps Her First Cat, and Gives Her a Chance to Be Indoors Again

Sometimes you trap outdoor cats that are already fixed.

That happens to all of us who do TNR at some point. But it happened with my friend Sonia with the FIRST cat she ever trapped last week.

Yoshimi has been coming to her place since last summer for food. Yoshimi got bolder and bolder, walking up three flights of stairs to get to Sonia’s door. Then this winter she became friendlier, and started rubbing up on Sonia, and asking for pets.

*And Adorableness Alert – Pretty much ALL photos of Yoshimi are AMAZING. And Sonia took all of these, with permission to share here.

So Sonia came by to borrow a trap from me and see how it works.

It was textbook TNR. Yoshimi sort of tried to pretend that she didn’t want to go in the trap, but then she rubbed on it,

and “investigated,”

and she pretty much went right in immediately.

Doesn’t she look pleased? She meowed A LOT in the trap. That was yet another sign that she is friendly.

Sonia brought her in to PAWS Chicago for her TNR surgery. It turned out that Yoshimi was already spayed, and even had a tattoo from PAWS’ clinic. But no microchip. Sonia had no idea who her previous owner was, and at this point, since Yoshimi had been coming to her place exclusively for months now for food, Yoshimi was most likely a former pet cat that was dumped last summer.

Yoshimi was very comfortable in Sonia’s bathroom.

A lot more comfortable than in the trap.

Sonia contacted Felines & Canines who agreed to admit Yoshimi into their adoption program. She’s already available. They shared this photo of her enjoying their window views.