A friend told me that she successfully trapped a cat over the weekend, and Tree House’s BVDM Mac Lean Spay/Neuter Clinic informed her the cat was already microchipped and neutered last year. My friend lives a block from The Cell Phones Colony. This cat colony is much harder to TNR because of opposition from the main… Read more »
So, the Rockstar Colony has lost their home. Literally. The owners sold off their three buildings and they’ve all been torn down. There’s just a huge hole in the ground for now. Last year I finished TNR’ing all seven cats for them. Since then, other neighbors told me two cats have died. I hope they took… Read more »
Starting in 2004, I learned about TNR from Alley Cat Allies and trapped a few cats. They were mostly mother cats with their kittens, so I brought them inside to be socialized and admitted into shelters. Then in 2005, as I was trying to trap a very sick cat, I trapped Bobcat instead, and he… Read more »
This is the time of year where my garage gets taken over by outdoor cat houses. This year we’re making another colony cat house for the cats in my yard. We also bought heating pads for all three shelters. In addition, I’m cleaning out all the cat shelters and adding new straw for their bedding,… Read more »
Kitty Farrell is a TNR’d feral colony cat from the Sprockets Colony who showed up in her caretaker’s yard with her leg dragging behind her the other week. You could see the bone sticking out of her leg. The caretakers decided to use a drop trap ingeniously made out of a larger cage that they… Read more »
A few weeks ago I met a woman on a Facebook neighborhood group because she was asking how to find a feral cat that went missing from her yard. It turned out she was a caretaker who has done TNR, trap-neuter-return, and her colony was just a few blocks away from my Joyce Division Colony…. Read more »
Dash does his best Lil Bub impersonation in honor of her visit to Chicago this week. What do you think?
Jim met Lil Bub and her human yesterday. Here they all are hanging out. We have some mutual friends that got to hang out with her yesterday. Unfortunately I was out of town. If you don’t know who Lil Bub is you should. Jim asked questions about the kind of care Lil Bub needs and how their lives… Read more »
I rented a drop trap from Tree House Humane Society for the first time. This is what it looks like set up in my garage. You set the food under the trap, wait for the cat to go under, and then pull the string attached to the stick so that it drops to the ground…. Read more »