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Q: I have caught a feral cat and had it fixed but what do I do for recovery?
A: Recovery is the easy part after the ordeal of catching some of these wily critters. I suggest doing a few things once you catch a feral cat that will help prepare you for the recovery.
Find a quiet place in your garage and lay newspaper down. The newspaper is used for their waste. An auto drip pan that you use to catch car fluid will also work.
Place two pieces of 1x1 or 2x4 wood at each end of the newspaper. Set the
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trap on the wood, to elevate it above the newspaper.
Use an old blanket or towels to cover the trap. This makes the cat feel safer and help to keep it warm in colder weather.
If surgery isn't until the next day or later, carefully place a very shallow bowl with water inside the trap, taking
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care not to allow the cat to escape or your hand to be harmed. A neat and useful tool available from Tomahawk Live Trap is a trap divider. This makes it really easy to insert and remove food bowls while the cat is in recovery.
After the surgery, the cat will need at least one or two days of recovery time,
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so include a bowl of food with the water. Once the cat is eating, drinking, and looks alert, it can be released.
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(Continued from page 1)
Last year, we began our "Trap-a-Longs" where volunteers would get together twice a month to trap at known feral colonies. This program has been highly successful. We spay and neuter about twice the number of feral cats than we do cats and dogs through the SNYP program. There are simply that many unaltered feral cats out there. When we go trapping, we have caught up to ten cats in one night! Unfortunately, no statistics exist that would tell us what kind of dent we are making, but one thing is clear. For each female cat we are altering, we are preventing about two litters a year. We get an immense feeling of satisfaction when we've caught females who are pregnant or in heat.
When you make a donation, you will be contributing to FSNP to continue preventing unwanted litters of kittens. If the Trap-a-Long sounds like fun (and it is!), contact us. It's a fun way to spend an evening and a great way to meet other people who share your same interests.
Stay tuned… We will have a regular article in each newsletter with updates on our spay/neuter progress.
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