I'll try to catch up a bit over the next few days. My big news was trapping and spaying Sasha on October 10th. I had spent almost an hour setting the trap every morning for two weeks. Sasha is very wary about traps. she was trapped in the drop trap back in July 2024 along with another cat, but I released her because she had newborn kittens at the time. Since that July she has had three more litters of kittens and I have made many attempts to trap her again. I tried trapping her at the main feeding area. She normally grabs a mouthful of canned food from a bowl, then darts back into the bushes to eat it alone. I thought that I could get he familiar with taking the food from a bowl just inside the trap, then lure her deeper in over time. It didn't work - she ignored any food inside the trap. I noticed that when she finished eating, she was taking a mouthful of food across the spring and uphill to her kittens - about 8 - 9 weeks old. She would find a comfortab...
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Jon with Cats
A journal of my interactions with a local feral cat colony.





