FCAT-Transfering a Feral Cat from Drop Trap to Carrier 

Keep the drop trap completely covered with a canvas drop cloth (less noise and more calming to cat than plastic tarp). Cover the transfer cage completely except for the far end of it. Don't stand anywhere around the transfer cage that the cat will see (example - straddle transfer cage). Lift up the far back side of tarp, and with a fiberglass (Home Depot) thin property pole marker, poke cat from uncovered end of drop trap toward transfer cage. It can go much faster if you use this method..

Another techbique is to keep the cover over the trap with the exception of the guilitine door. that way the cat thinks it is a way out and enters the carrier. The main thing is to keep the cat calm.

WOW! Worse transfer I have ever seen. This would keep me from using a drop trap if I didn't know how effective they were. I would remove this video. I keep the drop trap covered, use a special transfer cage that is also covered and the only light is at the end of the transfer cage. Cats are out of the drop trap in seconds into the transfer cage. I do it alone unless the cat ends up in a corner I can't reach and I need someone to poke it once out of the corner.

i also used the cover over the trap technique with a what i call the pokey stick and it work well

completely wrong technique. You never talk much when transferring and as others have noted the drop has to be covered with the carrier looking like the exit. If you didnt say bingo you could have had her much earlier.

How not to do it more like, you shouldn't ever stand in front of where you want the cat to go, poor cat has no idea what you want it to do

Terrible way pushing the cat with a broom handle, go on Neighborhood cats and watch the videos you will learn a lot

Took like forever, but cool.

Should be covered, but every cat will react differently. Some cats immediately run into the transfer carrier; some run in and out; others will sit forever like this little sweetie. You do what you can.

It'd be probably be easier if you did this on the ground rather than doing it on the wall.

You are hunched over the place you want her to go like a giant predator. This video makes me cringe, not exactly good advice. Also putting a feral cat into a carrier that cant be cordoned off with a trap fork is also makes for a traumatic experience when getting sedated at the vet. This video should be labeled how NOT to do this.