Last week, a kitten showed up at a colony we help feed. It is a small colony of all fixed cats, so I suspect that the baby was dumped there. Fortunately, this colony of cats is very sweet and allows the kitten to eat with them. Unfortunately, it looks like the kitten has uveitis (eye inflammation) and is in need of urgent medical attention.
We’ve attempted to trap this kitten over a course of four days. She is already very frightened, and I don’t think it has helped that she has witnessed the existing colony cats act cautiously around the trap. We’ve tried all the tricks we know at this point, and despite being very hungry, the kitten won’t enter the trap.
Time to Trap Train
The kitten is in an area where we can’t deploy a drop trap, so that means we will now have to spend time trap training. I will be going out every morning this week and feeding the cats in the trap. The doors will be zip tied open to prevent the trap from triggering. Each day, I will move the food farther away from the entrance in hopes that the kitten will fully enter the trap.
Shop to Support Our Rescue Efforts
I created this piece as a way of dealing with my frustration. This isn’t the first time we’ve struggled to trap a cat. We had one kitten that took more than a week to go in the trap after his siblings were caught. Our own Nick wouldn’t even fall for the drop trap—don’t worry. He has been living the spoiled life of an indoor cat with us now for two years. They eventually go in the trap. It’s just a matter of when.
If you would like to support our efforts in helping this kitten, you can shop this design and many others at my RedBubble and TeePublic shops. Proceeds from my sales help support the costs of purchasing food, litter, and toys for the cats we foster as well as help us offset the medical expenses for animals we help that aren’t covered by a resuce.
Our current plan for the kitten is to cover an urgent care visit ourselves in order to get her seen right away. Should she need anything major, like surgery, we will then reach out to local rescues in hopes of obtaining assistance. Our hope is that the kitten is friendly and can be adopted out into a forever home in the future.
