This was awesome. I moved to a country where there are no laws against having stray animals loose. Yes, it is sad to see and experience daily. Because of this, stray cats & dogs are everywhere with a community of cats esp. at every condo, etc. So I took it upon myself to feed and get them fixed. We just had an issue of one having her 8 week old babies just dissapear and it's traumatic for her, not to mention me. No idea where they went?? Anyway this video helped immensely for my beginning trapping. We do have wonderful spay clinics throughout and they do fabulous work for $5-10$! I normally never watch videos til the end but watched and learned from every minute of this. Thank you very much for sharing this for the animal population and us humans😊. Bless all you do.
You must’ve moved to the US. This I know - the universe does not forget those who help the helpless , innocent creatures. My strong feeling of this goes well beyond the scope of a YT comment. Thank you for caring about these innocent creatures who are the victims of ignorant, careless human beings. We must be honest about why ethos misery exists & look it straight in the face. Much love from Ohio.
Thanks for the information! Currently trying to trap “Elvis” one of the TNR cats I care for. He’s very feral and trap savvy now. I trapped him once and he had a terrible URI, got neutered and treated for that and we had to wait an additional 4 weeks to get his dental appointment as he needed a couple canines extracted and a cleaning. He injured himself now as he isn’t using one of his front legs. 😭 I’ve been trying now for over a week and no matter how long I withhold food, nothing. I also feed 6 other TNR cats so it’s difficult to feed them and not him. I think he’s eating somewhere else but don’t know where. He has no ears due to frostbite from previous years. He’s a senior and I want to retire him and let him live inside with me.
I've recently started doing TNR in my neighborhood. Thanks for the tips. I have a stubborn boy who I have trapped twice, but he escaped both times. The trap was not secure. I'm now using better traps but he is too smart to go in. I'm trying to borrow a drop trap, so maybe that will work.
Oh those trap-savvy kitties are always frustrating. But you've got this! The drop trap is a total game changer and trying that out is the best thing you can do. But in the mean time sometimes it helps to combine things. The last tough-to-trap cat trick that I learned about was a trapper using Friskies treats and a little cat nip in the trap to get him interested and then a laser pointer to distract him with some play and he followed it right in.
Thank you for the video. We lost a cat in a 8-9 acre thick-wooded area while camping. The area is surrounded by farmland making a nice little wooded island. We’ve discovered that there are 6-7 other cats living in these woods. We did not see our cat for the first two weeks, but after a return trip 4 weeks later we’ve seen her on a trail and on a trail cam (we don’t live in the area but can visit a few days at a time.) We’ve tried covered and camouflaged traps not far off the trail but along logs or woodpiles. We’ve used tuna and chicken. We’ve caught 4 different cats, a couple of them multiple times. We get a lot of opossums as well. We set the traps out at dusk and check them maybe 2-hours later. A couple of our traps have cameras that signal movement, so we’ll respond to them as appropriate. Otherwise we’ll check in the morning. We rarely see cats during the day and have never caught anything during daylight. All of our activity has been recent, summer/fall - in 60-80 degree weather and in thick foliage. We’re running out of ideas and hope. The drive is 6 hours, but we’ll try again in a couple weeks. Does anyone out there have suggestions/experience for our next attempt?
Yikes! Sounds like you're doing lots of things right but maybe Bryan or Suzi might have some additional suggestions. If you could, would you email us at support@communitycatspodcast.com? That way I can route it to the right person for ideas.
OMG, this is so similar to what I am going through (minus the 6 hour drive, I am so sorry for your situation, but you are an angel). I adopted a rescue Siamese kitty about 6 months ago. She was so scared and skittish that it took a month for her to come out of hiding. I felt like such a failure and that I was not giving her the life she deserved. I eventually contacted the rescue organization letting them know what was happening and was told it was probably best to return her to the foster home where I had gotten her from. I sat by the bed that she had hid under for several hours that night, talking to her and crying. I suddenly looked up and there she was. From that day on, we slowly bonded until she was my shadow. She is so talkative and followed me around on my heels. But, any loud sounds and she ran and hid and was only comfortable with me. A week ago I was setting up Halloween decorations for my son and when I went outside, the door didn't catch. Before I could do anything about it, she was out the door. I have cried my eyes out and have had a trap since the day after she got out. I have caught two possoms and a random neighbor's cat. My cat is getting in the trap, eating everything and getting out somehow. I have no clue how to get the trap to work for her😭😭😭!
@@jillbunny90 I am so sorry to hear your little friend got out, but I’m actually encouraged by what you said at the end. If she is going into your trap you’re 90% there! There should be many resources out there to help make sure the trap will close properly. One of our traps was very old and the trigger mechanism didn’t throw reliably. I don’t know if you have that problem, but it would be worth buying a new trap if you do. Also, I see many experienced people recommending lining the bottom of the trap with newspaper or cardboard all the way to the food. Others place the food at the back of the cage as normal but do it by placing the food under the cage, poking up through the holes. This causes the cat to spend more time around the bait and increases the odds that it will throw the trigger. (For others reading this, one of our problems was that we covered the bait end of the cage as well as the sides - that isn’t a good idea. On our next trip we will cover the sides but not the ends.) We will also try a trap with no cover. You might benefit from a trail camera. If you’re not always around to watch the trap, a trail camera close to the trap may reveal how your cat is avoiding the trigger. We actually had one cat that was smart enough to reach in from the back and drag the food out without going in! Good luck… I’m optimistic you’ll eventually figure it out!
The best cat trap I've ever seen is the Uhlik Repeater Cat Trap, and there's a TH-cam video with it in action - I am not sure if they ship to Hawaii but this is the BEST trap ever. I've trapped cats and gotten them fixed before in Hawaii (Oahu) but the biggest headache is trying to get them into the humane society. It's now early June, and there's no appointments until September!
Situations like this will never end by begging the public for donations to take the edge off this inhumanity. This issue goes straight to your statehouse. The public must demand that money be delegated to humanely and properly deal with this. There is plenty of money to deal with this.
Very informative video! A cat that is not mine was staying at my house while the owner is away long term (gets back in mid July 2023). She was very timid and hid, but 1.) figured out how to remove the vent plates to get in my house air ducts from the room she was kept in. I got a live trap and set it and within a half day she was trapped. Well, 2.) she slipped out the window in that room by pushing the screen out. I set food in the trap she was trapped in a few days before but she wouldn't go in to eat the food at the back. I've been trap training her and she will eat the food until it is past the trigger plate. The trap door is held open right now. I know she's been around because I set up a trail camera right at the trap. Several parts of this situation are making it really hard to be successful: 1. She is trap wary after the first time recently being trapped. 2. I am not her owner and my house is not her house. These are not safe spaces for her. 3. She will run as soon as someone sees her, even if it's from inside a house. 4. Not too far from here, people feed their cats outside. 5. The owner is gone for one more month. 6. Her home is a 20 minute drive from here. Any ideas? I'm worried she'll decide to move on to an area farther away. Thanks!!
I'm not an expert by any means but have thought this out as I may also run into that issue. My thought is to not set the trap to auto snap close but do the rope trick where you control the closing of the trap by pulling a rope that's connected to a bottle of water and when that gets pulled and the water goes down it will close. I believe that method is shown in the video. That means of course you'd have to be there and you may get ones in that you dont want, but that's when you'd have to have a " trap separator" ( looks like a giant fork ) to stick in the trap and let out the ones you dont want. It's a pain especially if they usually only come out at night as you'd have to be there then. I have also set the trap out for a week or so and not set it but put the food inside and that way they are used to going in there to eat and not so afraid of it. That worked very well for the really skittish one had no trouble going in there to eat. Good luck if you haven't figured it out already.
We ended up catching the cat but it escaped the trap. Is there any advice? Can I still use a trap to catch them? Or will they never go near the trap again?
You can certainly try to trap them again but if you're finding your escape artist has gotten trap savvy, maybe consider trying a drop trap? They are great because cats aren't usually wary of going under them because it doesn't seem like a trap. Bryan does a whole video on it here if you want to see what using one is like - th-cam.com/video/tZEbMCG04GE/w-d-xo.html
Humm...sometimes it's a matter of trying different bait. Some cats like sardines and tuna, some are excited about rotisserie chicken or KFC - it takes a few tries to land on their favorite. But if he's eating somewhere else or just not interested some non-food things you could try would be catnip, silver vine, or valerian - they are all great options. You can also try using a laser pointer to get him to play his way into the trap.
I have trapped almost 30 cats and I am always worried about them getting their tail caught. I caught 2 kittens in one trap and one had it's tail tip injured. Do you not cover the trap before a cat is in it? I see them reaching in through the sides trying to get to the food. Another cat can walk in and the pawing cat can jiggle the trap enough and the door will fall. I just need advice to ease my mind. I hate doing it but it is necessary and usually is safe.
Yes! The purpose of this webinar is meant to share tips and tricks for trappers and not necessarily to get into the details and best practices of the trapping process. We do cover that sort of info in a TNR certification workshop that is held every month. If you want to learn a little more about it you can go here: www.communitycatspodcast.com/community-cat-care-training-education/. One of the things they cover in it is how to use a bottle and string method - do you know about this? It works similarly to a drop trap so you have control over the door closing so you can make sure the cat is fully in the trap. It's especially helpful if you've got more than one cat/kitten that enter the trap together.
Thanks for pointing this out. That picture is more to show the trap model so you can see what it looks like. Generally, Neighborhood Cats uses trap matts made from coin grip material to cover the bottom of the cage and make it easier for the trip plate to do it's thing - plus it's easy to clean and reusable! :)
The mistake is you used too large of a bowl. Because any change will trigger suspicion, replacing with a smaller bowl on trapping day may cause a problem.
Check out this page on Neighborhood Cats' website - www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/trapping/caring-for-cats-in-traps - it goes deep into detail on keeping cats safe, clean, and comfortable in traps before/after a clinic.
Help me please if you can. I was taking my feral cat to Pets Alive,a place that stays and neuters cats. I was taking my cat there to get medical help,and he got out of the trap while I was walking him to the door of Pets Alive. He ran around to the woods,but we live out side of town in the country part,20 minutes away from town here is a big difference. I lost him 5-24-23,and I looked for him,yelling his name crying so hard,so it may have sounded scary to him that I was crying and yelling out to him. I met a woman yesterday who told me she rescues cats,as I was standing in her house,I couldn't hardly breath,she has over 13 cats,I counted cat carriers stacked on top of eachother in threes. She says her neighbors hate her,and they hate the cats,that her neighbors killed her other dogs with rat poison,she said so I don't let any of my cats or the dog I have left out in the back yard without me being out there. I thought do you really do what is needed for these cats,she has a cat that belongs to one of her neighbors! I showed her my picture of my cat telling her my idea of what to write for lost or missing cat,she then goes and gets a paper of someone else's missing paper that is printed off too,saying missing cat call this number. She was saying you can do it like this one,I was like oh my Lord Jesus help! This woman has this guy's cat! I'm standing there looking at the cat in her house that is the same one on the missing paper! Or add! I thought my cat is lost in this area,I'm so scared that she will trap him and keep him and not tell me. I'm Praying in my mind,I'm standing there trying not to burst out crying,not just for my cat,but for all these cats that she has in these carriers,inside of thee smallest home. She said she will call Pets Alive,I am thinking for what! She talked to me for over 2 hours in her house that I couldn't get know real air in,it was so much ammonia,crap,it is bad in her house. I said yea I was out looking for my cat,I didn't have much time and I've been here for over 2 hours I have to go,and I opened her door inched and inched my way out her door,finally out her glass door,and I see another cat on her porch drinking water,she said oh this is another one I'm trying to catch. I Thought oh my God Please please God help me find my cat before this lady does. We exchanged numbers in case she finds him,but she said she wants to go out with me in the early hours of the morning to find him. So I went to the shelter made a lost cat report,and I was heading to the door to walk out,I stopped and said no there is something else,and I said a woman I met a little while go says she is a cat rescuer,so how many cats can she have..the woman from the shelter said if she is registered 5 maybe 6 cats,shock and worry on my face,she said what? I said nothing I just wanted to know. She looked concerned and said we can do a welfare check if you think we need too,she said something before thar but I can't remember how she said it. She said if you know of someone who needs..and I can't remember the rest,but she did say we can do a welfare or wellness check on the animals. I have to get my cat out of that woman's area,Pets Alive is in that same area of where that woman lives,and on Facebook on our lost Pets said they seen a description of my cat I that area,so he is around there still somewhere. And I can't find a trap that works,mine I found out is broken after my cat escaped out of it while walking him to Pets Alive. What on earth do I do to get him back?
Oh and after I do find my cat I will call for help for the cats in that womans house,and that the guy gets his cat back that the woman has and is not giving it back. I trust God,He will and is helping too. Thank you.
If you're referring to culling here just to get a rise out of folks I'd rather you didn't answer - but - if you're serious and you'd like to talk about it, please say more to about what specific technique you're talking about and why it's a good solution for local communities we'd be interested to hear. If you could refer us to any actual data-backed articles or studies that support your opinion - even better! Also - if you're interested in Australian cat-issues in particular, you might want to check out this just-released research paper about the effects free spay/neuter services have had on the cat population - www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/11/1615
Any cat or dog can easily be “transitioned. These are *domestic animals* They’ve been bred for millions of years to be the companions of humans, to share our dwellings. They are not biologically equipped to live “outside.” To ask a cat or dog live outside is a death sentence and a very miserable death as well. There are cultures, mostly culturally impoverished, who still will have an “outside” dog or cat. How ignorant and misguided this is must be looked at right in the fish. Exercising patience with this nonsense in the interest of political correctness is an outrageous cost to ask an innocent creature to bear.
I agree to a certain extent, but there just aren’t enough people to foster/socialize feral cats. Why spend months trying to socialize one single cat when that time could be spent trapping and sterilizing more cats? I wish every cat could be a pet and have a home, but that’s just not reasonable.
@@dylonrobinson9005Wow do I agree with you! There is a non-profit cat trapping association in my region. The people who run it are so set on saving every single animal that they are actually in violation of city code. They secretly hide that they have hundreds of cats in one building and the cats roam freeky. Some of them have died while there is no one there. They have only one or two people to try to clean and feed and so there's never anybody there at the facility for very long. Some of the cats that they've trapped and refused to let go of r some of the meanest wildest feral cats alive. Meantime, they've gone broke.
You should talk a little slower. You sound as though you are in a race. It would be nice to hear what you have to say because I am trying to TNR two cats.
You can actually slow down a TH-cam video to a speed that's more comfortable. Just hover over the player and click settings. (It's the icon that looks like a little cog.) Then click playback speed and you should get a variety of options to speed it up or slow it down. Hopefully that helps! :)
It might be worth checking out this episode of the show - th-cam.com/video/kC_uecHYup0/w-d-xo.html - it's a conversation with Bob Sallinger, Conservation Director at the Audubon Society of Portland and Karen Kraus, of the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon. It talks about how "bird people" and "cat people" have teamed up to conduct studies, start TNR and low-cost spay/neuter projects, and campaigns that encourage people to keep their cats indoors or build catios so that they can reach the common goal of reducing the feral cat population. I think it will help you understand if you'd like to.
Extremely informative!! Loved the info on accidentally catching a wild animal!👌🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
They can check another square off on TNR bingo. :) www.communitycatspodcast.com/lets-play-trapper-bingo/
Happens daily where I work. Mostly skunks for me.
This was awesome. I moved to a country where there are no laws against having stray animals loose. Yes, it is sad to see and experience daily. Because of this, stray cats & dogs are everywhere with a community of cats esp. at every condo, etc. So I took it upon myself to feed and get them fixed. We just had an issue of one having her 8 week old babies just dissapear and it's traumatic for her, not to mention me. No idea where they went?? Anyway this video helped immensely for my beginning trapping. We do have wonderful spay clinics throughout and they do fabulous work for $5-10$! I normally never watch videos til the end but watched and learned from every minute of this. Thank you very much for sharing this for the animal population and us humans😊. Bless all you do.
People steal them it's horrid
Where are you ?
You must’ve moved to the US. This I know - the universe does not forget those who help the helpless , innocent creatures. My strong feeling of this goes well beyond the scope of a YT comment. Thank you for caring about these innocent creatures who are the victims of ignorant, careless human beings. We must be honest about why ethos misery exists & look it straight in the face. Much love from Ohio.
Thanks for the information! Currently trying to trap “Elvis” one of the TNR cats I care for. He’s very feral and trap savvy now. I trapped him once and he had a terrible URI, got neutered and treated for that and we had to wait an additional 4 weeks to get his dental appointment as he needed a couple canines extracted and a cleaning. He injured himself now as he isn’t using one of his front legs. 😭 I’ve been trying now for over a week and no matter how long I withhold food, nothing. I also feed 6 other TNR cats so it’s difficult to feed them and not him. I think he’s eating somewhere else but don’t know where. He has no ears due to frostbite from previous years. He’s a senior and I want to retire him and let him live inside with me.
Elvis is lucky you're looking out for him! Glad you found this helpful. Good luck catching him and if you have a chance - let us know how he's doing.
VERY Excellent info, on wildlife thanks🐈⬛🍀💯
I've recently started doing TNR in my neighborhood. Thanks for the tips. I have a stubborn boy who I have trapped twice, but he escaped both times. The trap was not secure. I'm now using better traps but he is too smart to go in. I'm trying to borrow a drop trap, so maybe that will work.
Oh those trap-savvy kitties are always frustrating. But you've got this! The drop trap is a total game changer and trying that out is the best thing you can do. But in the mean time sometimes it helps to combine things. The last tough-to-trap cat trick that I learned about was a trapper using Friskies treats and a little cat nip in the trap to get him interested and then a laser pointer to distract him with some play and he followed it right in.
Excellent. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. We lost a cat in a 8-9 acre thick-wooded area while camping. The area is surrounded by farmland making a nice little wooded island. We’ve discovered that there are 6-7 other cats living in these woods. We did not see our cat for the first two weeks, but after a return trip 4 weeks later we’ve seen her on a trail and on a trail cam (we don’t live in the area but can visit a few days at a time.) We’ve tried covered and camouflaged traps not far off the trail but along logs or woodpiles. We’ve used tuna and chicken. We’ve caught 4 different cats, a couple of them multiple times. We get a lot of opossums as well. We set the traps out at dusk and check them maybe 2-hours later. A couple of our traps have cameras that signal movement, so we’ll respond to them as appropriate. Otherwise we’ll check in the morning. We rarely see cats during the day and have never caught anything during daylight. All of our activity has been recent, summer/fall - in 60-80 degree weather and in thick foliage. We’re running out of ideas and hope. The drive is 6 hours, but we’ll try again in a couple weeks. Does anyone out there have suggestions/experience for our next attempt?
Yikes! Sounds like you're doing lots of things right but maybe Bryan or Suzi might have some additional suggestions. If you could, would you email us at support@communitycatspodcast.com? That way I can route it to the right person for ideas.
@@communitycatspodcast Thanks! Email sent.
OMG, this is so similar to what I am going through (minus the 6 hour drive, I am so sorry for your situation, but you are an angel). I adopted a rescue Siamese kitty about 6 months ago. She was so scared and skittish that it took a month for her to come out of hiding. I felt like such a failure and that I was not giving her the life she deserved. I eventually contacted the rescue organization letting them know what was happening and was told it was probably best to return her to the foster home where I had gotten her from. I sat by the bed that she had hid under for several hours that night, talking to her and crying. I suddenly looked up and there she was. From that day on, we slowly bonded until she was my shadow. She is so talkative and followed me around on my heels. But, any loud sounds and she ran and hid and was only comfortable with me. A week ago I was setting up Halloween decorations for my son and when I went outside, the door didn't catch. Before I could do anything about it, she was out the door. I have cried my eyes out and have had a trap since the day after she got out. I have caught two possoms and a random neighbor's cat. My cat is getting in the trap, eating everything and getting out somehow. I have no clue how to get the trap to work for her😭😭😭!
@@jillbunny90 I am so sorry to hear your little friend got out, but I’m actually encouraged by what you said at the end. If she is going into your trap you’re 90% there! There should be many resources out there to help make sure the trap will close properly. One of our traps was very old and the trigger mechanism didn’t throw reliably. I don’t know if you have that problem, but it would be worth buying a new trap if you do. Also, I see many experienced people recommending lining the bottom of the trap with newspaper or cardboard all the way to the food. Others place the food at the back of the cage as normal but do it by placing the food under the cage, poking up through the holes. This causes the cat to spend more time around the bait and increases the odds that it will throw the trigger. (For others reading this, one of our problems was that we covered the bait end of the cage as well as the sides - that isn’t a good idea. On our next trip we will cover the sides but not the ends.) We will also try a trap with no cover. You might benefit from a trail camera. If you’re not always around to watch the trap, a trail camera close to the trap may reveal how your cat is avoiding the trigger. We actually had one cat that was smart enough to reach in from the back and drag the food out without going in! Good luck… I’m optimistic you’ll eventually figure it out!
@fiddlinmike Thank you so much!!! I appreciate your kindness as much as your helpful information🩷🫶!!
Garden hose that's brilliant. I'm planning to attach straps on the sides like I have on my electric traps.
Oh, interesting! How do that straps attach?
The best cat trap I've ever seen is the Uhlik Repeater Cat Trap, and there's a TH-cam video with it in action - I am not sure if they ship to Hawaii but this is the BEST trap ever. I've trapped cats and gotten them fixed before in Hawaii (Oahu) but the biggest headache is trying to get them into the humane society. It's now early June, and there's no appointments until September!
Thank you! I have never seen this!
Situations like this will never end by begging the public for donations to take the edge off this inhumanity. This issue goes straight to your statehouse. The public must demand that money be delegated to humanely and properly deal with this. There is plenty of money to deal with this.
Very informative video! A cat that is not mine was staying at my house while the owner is away long term (gets back in mid July 2023). She was very timid and hid, but 1.) figured out how to remove the vent plates to get in my house air ducts from the room she was kept in. I got a live trap and set it and within a half day she was trapped. Well, 2.) she slipped out the window in that room by pushing the screen out. I set food in the trap she was trapped in a few days before but she wouldn't go in to eat the food at the back. I've been trap training her and she will eat the food until it is past the trigger plate. The trap door is held open right now. I know she's been around because I set up a trail camera right at the trap. Several parts of this situation are making it really hard to be successful:
1. She is trap wary after the first time recently being trapped.
2. I am not her owner and my house is not her house. These are not safe spaces for her.
3. She will run as soon as someone sees her, even if it's from inside a house.
4. Not too far from here, people feed their cats outside.
5. The owner is gone for one more month.
6. Her home is a 20 minute drive from here.
Any ideas? I'm worried she'll decide to move on to an area farther away. Thanks!!
Try a drop trap in a slightly different location.
I have been trapping. I feed about 14 now. I have new ones to trap. How do I trap un tipped cats and not the ones already TNR’d? How does that work?
I'm not an expert by any means but have thought this out as I may also run into that issue. My thought is to not set the trap to auto snap close but do the rope trick where you control the closing of the trap by pulling a rope that's connected to a bottle of water and when that gets pulled and the water goes down it will close. I believe that method is shown in the video. That means of course you'd have to be there and you may get ones in that you dont want, but that's when you'd have to have a " trap separator" ( looks like a giant fork ) to stick in the trap and let out the ones you dont want. It's a pain especially if they usually only come out at night as you'd have to be there then. I have also set the trap out for a week or so and not set it but put the food inside and that way they are used to going in there to eat and not so afraid of it. That worked very well for the really skittish one had no trouble going in there to eat. Good luck if you haven't figured it out already.
A drop trap is a great option to selectively trap. There's a whole video on them here - th-cam.com/video/kyKv0D1aVrs/w-d-xo.html
@@communitycatspodcast yes. I figured out drop trapping last summer. We got the infamous Houdini!
We ended up catching the cat but it escaped the trap. Is there any advice? Can I still use a trap to catch them? Or will they never go near the trap again?
You can certainly try to trap them again but if you're finding your escape artist has gotten trap savvy, maybe consider trying a drop trap? They are great because cats aren't usually wary of going under them because it doesn't seem like a trap. Bryan does a whole video on it here if you want to see what using one is like - th-cam.com/video/tZEbMCG04GE/w-d-xo.html
One I am trying to catch, never eats. Not even outside the trap. How do I convince him to enter the trap if he doesn't want food?
Humm...sometimes it's a matter of trying different bait. Some cats like sardines and tuna, some are excited about rotisserie chicken or KFC - it takes a few tries to land on their favorite. But if he's eating somewhere else or just not interested some non-food things you could try would be catnip, silver vine, or valerian - they are all great options. You can also try using a laser pointer to get him to play his way into the trap.
What to do when they are smart and step over the stepper?
Use a stiff piece of cardboard to extend the trip plate
th-cam.com/video/J7qoQ_u33sc/w-d-xo.html
I have trapped almost 30 cats and I am always worried about them getting their tail caught. I caught 2 kittens in one trap and one had it's tail tip injured.
Do you not cover the trap before a cat is in it? I see them reaching in through the sides trying to get to the food. Another cat can walk in and the pawing cat can jiggle the trap enough and the door will fall. I just need advice to ease my mind. I hate doing it but it is necessary and usually is safe.
Yes! The purpose of this webinar is meant to share tips and tricks for trappers and not necessarily to get into the details and best practices of the trapping process. We do cover that sort of info in a TNR certification workshop that is held every month. If you want to learn a little more about it you can go here: www.communitycatspodcast.com/community-cat-care-training-education/. One of the things they cover in it is how to use a bottle and string method - do you know about this? It works similarly to a drop trap so you have control over the door closing so you can make sure the cat is fully in the trap. It's especially helpful if you've got more than one cat/kitten that enter the trap together.
Could you please show us a picture of the water bottle situation?
th-cam.com/video/h83kuPOFjqs/w-d-xo.html
There are other videos available that demonstrate this method
Thanks!
Thank you! We hope you learned a lot - it's a great presentation!
i caught a kitten in a cat trap outside i got them in my house they doing great!!! there about over a year now a good cat Gabe!!! )
Sounds like a success story! Congrats!
15:17 need a towel on bottom, also hides trip plate.
Thanks for pointing this out. That picture is more to show the trap model so you can see what it looks like. Generally, Neighborhood Cats uses trap matts made from coin grip material to cover the bottom of the cage and make it easier for the trip plate to do it's thing - plus it's easy to clean and reusable! :)
The mistake is you used too large of a bowl. Because any change will trigger suspicion, replacing with a smaller bowl on trapping day may cause a problem.
How do I keep cat safe if trap one day early?
Check out this page on Neighborhood Cats' website - www.neighborhoodcats.org/how-to-tnr/trapping/caring-for-cats-in-traps - it goes deep into detail on keeping cats safe, clean, and comfortable in traps before/after a clinic.
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Help me please if you can. I was taking my feral cat to Pets Alive,a place that stays and neuters cats. I was taking my cat there to get medical help,and he got out of the trap while I was walking him to the door of Pets Alive. He ran around to the woods,but we live out side of town in the country part,20 minutes away from town here is a big difference. I lost him 5-24-23,and I looked for him,yelling his name crying so hard,so it may have sounded scary to him that I was crying and yelling out to him. I met a woman yesterday who told me she rescues cats,as I was standing in her house,I couldn't hardly breath,she has over 13 cats,I counted cat carriers stacked on top of eachother in threes. She says her neighbors hate her,and they hate the cats,that her neighbors killed her other dogs with rat poison,she said so I don't let any of my cats or the dog I have left out in the back yard without me being out there. I thought do you really do what is needed for these cats,she has a cat that belongs to one of her neighbors! I showed her my picture of my cat telling her my idea of what to write for lost or missing cat,she then goes and gets a paper of someone else's missing paper that is printed off too,saying missing cat call this number. She was saying you can do it like this one,I was like oh my Lord Jesus help! This woman has this guy's cat! I'm standing there looking at the cat in her house that is the same one on the missing paper! Or add! I thought my cat is lost in this area,I'm so scared that she will trap him and keep him and not tell me. I'm Praying in my mind,I'm standing there trying not to burst out crying,not just for my cat,but for all these cats that she has in these carriers,inside of thee smallest home. She said she will call Pets Alive,I am thinking for what! She talked to me for over 2 hours in her house that I couldn't get know real air in,it was so much ammonia,crap,it is bad in her house. I said yea I was out looking for my cat,I didn't have much time and I've been here for over 2 hours I have to go,and I opened her door inched and inched my way out her door,finally out her glass door,and I see another cat on her porch drinking water,she said oh this is another one I'm trying to catch. I Thought oh my God Please please God help me find my cat before this lady does. We exchanged numbers in case she finds him,but she said she wants to go out with me in the early hours of the morning to find him. So I went to the shelter made a lost cat report,and I was heading to the door to walk out,I stopped and said no there is something else,and I said a woman I met a little while go says she is a cat rescuer,so how many cats can she have..the woman from the shelter said if she is registered 5 maybe 6 cats,shock and worry on my face,she said what? I said nothing I just wanted to know. She looked concerned and said we can do a welfare check if you think we need too,she said something before thar but I can't remember how she said it. She said if you know of someone who needs..and I can't remember the rest,but she did say we can do a welfare or wellness check on the animals. I have to get my cat out of that woman's area,Pets Alive is in that same area of where that woman lives,and on Facebook on our lost Pets said they seen a description of my cat I that area,so he is around there still somewhere. And I can't find a trap that works,mine I found out is broken after my cat escaped out of it while walking him to Pets Alive. What on earth do I do to get him back?
Oh my goodness. Did you get your cat back? Did they do a welfare check?
She needs to be reported. That's a horribly unhealthy environment for the cats. She's not helping them - she's mentally ill!
Oh and after I do find my cat I will call for help for the cats in that womans house,and that the guy gets his cat back that the woman has and is not giving it back. I trust God,He will and is helping too. Thank you.
prefer Australia 's technique
If you're referring to culling here just to get a rise out of folks I'd rather you didn't answer - but - if you're serious and you'd like to talk about it, please say more to about what specific technique you're talking about and why it's a good solution for local communities we'd be interested to hear. If you could refer us to any actual data-backed articles or studies that support your opinion - even better! Also - if you're interested in Australian cat-issues in particular, you might want to check out this just-released research paper about the effects free spay/neuter services have had on the cat population - www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/14/11/1615
23:42 Hard to Catch Cats
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You can tame a feral cat, it doesn’t matter how wild they are.
Same with a dog too
Any cat or dog can easily be “transitioned. These are *domestic animals* They’ve been bred for millions of years to be the companions of humans, to share our dwellings. They are not biologically equipped to live “outside.” To ask a cat or dog live outside is a death sentence and a very miserable death as well. There are cultures, mostly culturally impoverished, who still will have an “outside” dog or cat. How ignorant and misguided this is must be looked at right in the fish. Exercising patience with this nonsense in the interest of political correctness is an outrageous cost to ask an innocent creature to bear.
I agree to a certain extent, but there just aren’t enough people to foster/socialize feral cats. Why spend months trying to socialize one single cat when that time could be spent trapping and sterilizing more cats? I wish every cat could be a pet and have a home, but that’s just not reasonable.
@@dylonrobinson9005Wow do I agree with you! There is a non-profit cat trapping association in my region. The people who run it are so set on saving every single animal that they are actually in violation of city code. They secretly hide that they have hundreds of cats in one building and the cats roam freeky. Some of them have died while there is no one there. They have only one or two people to try to clean and feed and so there's never anybody there at the facility for very long. Some of the cats that they've trapped and refused to let go of r some of the meanest wildest feral cats alive. Meantime, they've gone broke.
You should talk a little slower. You sound as though you are in a race. It would be nice to hear what you have to say because I am trying to TNR two cats.
You can actually slow down a TH-cam video to a speed that's more comfortable. Just hover over the player and click settings. (It's the icon that looks like a little cog.) Then click playback speed and you should get a variety of options to speed it up or slow it down. Hopefully that helps! :)
I dont understand why release these wildlife killers
It might be worth checking out this episode of the show - th-cam.com/video/kC_uecHYup0/w-d-xo.html - it's a conversation with Bob Sallinger, Conservation Director at the Audubon Society of Portland and Karen Kraus, of the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon. It talks about how "bird people" and "cat people" have teamed up to conduct studies, start TNR and low-cost spay/neuter projects, and campaigns that encourage people to keep their cats indoors or build catios so that they can reach the common goal of reducing the feral cat population. I think it will help you understand if you'd like to.
I needed all this information. Not true- that the video is too wordy.
Too much talking get to the point get to the DaM point
I've sped it up 2x and saved myself a TON of time
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