A Trappers Tale
Location 35 miles away from Paws Inn and information received that an injured feral needs help.
Our trusty trio ( Claire, Grumpy and yours truly ) armed with trap crush cages and pilchards are soon on site; an enormous business park which we soon realise has more than 1 feral. There are lots of different security stations too so it meant a good walk round them all to explain what we wanted to do and why and of course getting them on our side.
Traps set we sat down ready to tuck into chocolate donuts, have you ever tasted them through pilchard covered fingers- wonderful
. We spotted other ferals that all need to be neutered and then by a miracle our injured girl goes into the trap. We called her Little Miss Sunshine; it turned out her injuries were old, a broken ankle ,broken toe and one and a half toes had been torn away; the vet said she had been coping well with the injury so amputation wasn’t advisable so spay, worm and flea treated this lovely girl is now back at the colony
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We spotted a heavily pregnant girl and hoped to catch her last night. Security took us in a building where he thought she may be; it involved a bit of crawling around and yours truly crawled flat on her belly to investigate one likely area getting plastered in cement from head to foot
, while the more intelligent and ladylike Claire found an easier way in and as ever remained immaculate in appearance. I now know how they did make up on Worzel Gummidge
. I feel I should mention that at this point Grumpy (oh) was sat in the car eating the 2 tiny pieces of fudge that was all the food we had between us , typical greedy man
The security guard had warned us about a big black Tom who is very nasty towards them, he said he wouldn’t fit in the trap; well the lovely lad went straight in and is currently losing a couple of nuts and more ticks than I have ever seen on a cat before. We have called him Big Daddy as he`s obviously the Alpha male, he`s a good lad despite spending hours in the car he hung onto everything until I handed him into the vets this morning and promptly sprayed everywhere,the nurse wasn`t amused must admit I was delighted.
Sadly we didn’t spot the pregnant girl last night, but will be back on site tonight to return Big daddy and reset our traps; will take some pics before we release him.
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