The garden is now an autumn garden, but I left the large stalks of sunflowers standing for Funny Face. He was using the sunflowers all summer as scratching posts. Next year I’ll plant more for him. The bigger the better – Mammoth Russian seemed to work the best. And then the sunflowers fed the… Read more »
When I started TNR a decade ago I never fed cats outside. I learned about it because I was trying to catch a sick and injured cat that would not come near me. Even after their TNR I still did not feed since the cats seemed to “disappear” afterwards. What they were actually doing was… Read more »
Last week brought incredible news: Clover was adopted off the street. Clover was part of the Eleanor Rigby Colony. I started TNR there in December of 2008 for an overwhelmed, disabled, elderly feeder named Rosemary. This is part of what the colony looked like then. Clover is all the way in the back on the… Read more »
Ever since Dice’s death last week the cats in my yard were not acting the same. Although Bouncy Bear was around constantly hoping for wet food, Dash and Funny Face disappeared for awhile. Funny Face was quite bonded to Dice so I worried about him. This week the colony cats seem to have regrouped and… Read more »
The blooms for tonight’s Feral Flowers Design Class and TNR Talk are harvested and ready for delivery. I am so excited to meet everyone tonight at this sold out class at Forget Me Knodt, and celebrate National Feral Cat Day. Despite the rain, Bouncy Bear kept coming out to see what was going on and what… Read more »
I took Dice, one of the cats in my yard, to the vet today to be euthanized. We are heartbroken. Dice was the quintessential feral tom cat. He showed up in my yard at the beginning of 2009, and I trapped him easily and quickly that January. Here he is right after his TNR… Read more »
When feral cats get sick for extended periods of time you need to provide extra space for them to recover safely and humanely. I’ve run into that situation a few times this past year, and the Feral Cat Recovery Cage has been a lifesaver, literally, for the cats. My TNR friend, Dave H, invented this set-up, and… Read more »
Going out of town when you have multiple cats can be stressful. Not only are there pet cats to care for, sometimes with medical needs, but there can also be foster cats, sick feral cats resting in recovery lounge crates, and outdoor cat colonies. Greer from Mama Bear Pet Care handles all of the… Read more »
The hoarder drug house has been evicted and boarded up for almost two months now. TNR is still needed to be done there. A top floor attic window has been left open the entire time, but it’s impossible to know if all of the cats can get in and out of it, or if there are… Read more »
Forget Me Knodt hosts sold out flower design classes all year at her shop. In celebration of National Feral Cat Day and our summer-long Feral Flowers Project, Janessa from Forget Me Knodt will teach a class on how to design with blooms specifically from our garden, including zinnias, cosmos, allium and solidago arranged in mason jars. Each… Read more »