Move feral cats to and from traps, transfer cages, cat carriers, and wire kennels

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From wire kennel to cat carrier;
from cat carrier to backdoor trap;
from backdoor trap to cat carrier;
from non-backdoor trap to cat carrier;
from cat carrier to non-backdoor trap;
from transfer cage to transfer cage;
from backdoor trap to modified cat carrier;
from cat carrier to cat carrier;
from wire kennel to automatic trap.

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@JP-vk9eb 7 лет назад

Thank you so much for this video! Exactly the information I was seeking. I have momma and 5 kittens to tend to in the coming weeks and didn't know how I was gonna trap, transport, hold and release & the items needed. Big Props!

@KalanYore 7 лет назад

How did it turn out 7 months ago? For the kittens if you were to trap and get them to cat rescue could get them adopted or a animal shelter that will take them from you - they will be spayed/neutered and get their vaccines. For the momma cat - is a toss up for you to take in after she was fixed/vaccinated to be domesticated as it will take quite of bit of time and patience but not impossible or the other 2 options would be put up for adoption if she passes behavioral evaluation to be adoptable? [ the worse option would be put to sleep or a better option she would be TNR to a farm that needs cats for rodent control or the cat gets the TNR and returned to your area?

@Kit1128 7 лет назад

From someone that has trapped hundreds of ferals, this video is very informative and extremely helpful. Some of the suggestions were things that I had already figured out on my own. That made me feel good. One of the more helpful suggestions was to take a standard trap, that does not have a rear door, and turn it on its side first. I had never thought of that, and will keep it in mind for the future. One question I have is: You mentioned checking the cat for signs a female may have given birth. What do you suggest if the cat is lactating? I work closely with a county shelter, and I have been advised not to let the cat go as she will be nearly impossible to catch again. What we usually do is make sure the spay takes place the following day and then release asap when recovered from the anesthesia. The newborns can survive up to 48 hours without the mom. I know it sounds harsh but it's vitally important to make sure the mom spayed to end the cycle.

@vladimirkittenproject2283 6 лет назад

Discovering that a cat in your trap is lactating is a huge wrench suddenly thrown in the works. To spay and return, or to release immediately unspayed. I could write an essay about all the things to consider, but I'll just write some key points here about what one can ask herself when confronted with this problem. If you have definite information about the kittens: - How old are they? Are they surely of an age where they are eating on their own and can live on the cat food that you provide for them at the feeding station? Are the kittens aware of where the feeding station is yet? - What's the temperature outside? Is it summer, and nice and warm? Or are you trapping outside of kitten season? Will the kittens freeze without their mom's body heat? If you have no information about the kittens: - Gather intel from anyone you can, fast. Maybe you can discover and grab the kittens straight away. Start knocking on doors with a big smile, tell the person who answers your dilemma, and ask if they have any information about where the nest of kittens might be. Have they seen Mama Cat going to and from a particular spot? Go check out the spot and see if you can discover the nest and snatch the tiny kittens. If you can, problem solved. Has the person seen mobile kittens running around? How old did they guess the kittens were (but people can be really clueless about aging kittens, so maybe just ask if the kittens still had blue eyes or not)? If the person shows any concern, you might even be able to enlist him/her as a feeder, or just a watcher, and then you've got a helper on-site. Try to form an opinion on whether or not a spayed lactating cat will continue to lactate or will dry up within a week. If she dries up within a week, and her kittens are not yet weaned, then even if she is returned to them she won't be able to feed them. - I have had a vet explain to me that lactation is controlled in the pituitary gland in the brain, and so a spay operation is not going to alter lactation (because a spay is certainly not brain surgery!). If Mama Cat THINKS she needs to lactate, then she will, whether she's spayed yet or not, according to that vet. - I have seen a feral cat in my care dry up within a few days of being spayed even though her kitten had been given back to her, she was attentive towards the kitten, and the kitten tried hard to nurse. That cat KNEW she needed to produce milk for her kitten but could not do so. - I really value veterinary knowledge, but I also know what I have witnessed first-hand. At this point, I do not yet have enough experience in monitoring lactating cats post-spay to have formed a firm opinion on what is the effect of spaying on lactation. I do know first-hand how frustrating it is to release a cat unspayed because she is then trap-wise and might be difficult to trap again - perhaps extremely difficult to trap again - and will in the meantime produce more kittens that you will need to trap; however, I don't spay lactating cats if doing so would be dangerous for her kittens. Every situation has its own nuances, but basically I use my fact-finding skills, awareness, risk assessment, and judgement to make a decision that I feel is safe for the uncaught kittens.

@tinjmail 7 лет назад

In transferring from carrier to trap, there is no way that I can just use one hand and hold the release door to block the cat from charging out of the carrier. The feral cat that I had is very strong and can push it out of the way.

@TheGhostOperative 7 лет назад

why don't they also put a sliding door on the courier too? duh? makes it harder for cat to push through and run. any wild animal transfer should be done by the sliding door...period.

@debbec3863 8 лет назад

Unfortunately, you can't hear a word being said.

@vladimirkittenproject2283 8 лет назад

Hi there. Sorry that you can't hear the sound. I enlisted my friends to check if there is audio on their computers, and everyone said yes, the sound is working normally. I'm intrigued by why it is that your computer won't play the audio, so I did a quick internet search and came up with a list of advice, which I've posted below. Sure hope something help! ------------ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6hkCYmvoTYQ.html There’s needless talking at the beginning, but skip to 1:30 in her video to learn about Chrome plugins. ------------ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uuAvCuMuOcM.html -------------- Realtek drivers are messed up: Down in the bottom right near the date and time you will see a little picture of speaker of some description if you hover your mouse over the speaker it should say "Realtek Audio" or something along those lines, click on that and there should be a drop down bar in the window that just opened it should say either 5.1 surround sound or 7.1 surround sound click on that drop down bar and select "Stereo sound" done. --------- download the youtube flash player -------------- Click on your volume icon on your desktop, then click on ‘Mixer’ and check that none of the controls are muted.