So happy to hear that Newt, a cat I TNR’d in my yard in 2013, is now a fully 100% indoor cat in my neighbor’s home! When I first saw Newt he lounged around all over my yard. Once he was TNR’d, Newt started visiting Amanda, my neighbor, a few blocks away. She let… Read more »
Puffy is a very fluffy, long-haired cat that comes to my yard irregularly to feed ever since I TNR’d him in 2013. This past year he’s been looking fluffier than ever. His long-haired coat is magnificent, but starting to look downright disheveled. He’s not easy to capture on camera – he’s a true feral who… Read more »
Since 2007 I TNR’d 183 cats from 20 colony sites within one square mile around me. Today there are only 51 cats from that total left outside. That is a 72% reduction rate in nine years. I am very happy with these numbers and track them carefully. I visit these colony sites and their feeders all the time… Read more »
We are included again (!!!) in the Hyde Park Cats calendar for 2016. This highlighted link includes instructions on how to order this calendar from hydeparkcats.org Every cat in a trap here has a story that deserves to be shared and celebrated, which is pretty much why I started this blog in the first place…. Read more »
*Disclaimer: Of course no animals or humans were harmed in this series of photos. I walked out my front door and saw Funny Face, one of my TNR’d colony cats, in the front yard. I hardly noticed the red-tailed menace in the tree. But obviously Funny Face noticed. He hunkered down. And the chase… Read more »
Paddy showed up last week on my neighbor’s garage roof, taunting the cats in my yard. Seriously? My colony cats run off any newcomers from the backyard, which is why I started feeding in the front yard last year. And yup, I trapped Paddy two nights later. He was a Textbook TNR case, in and… Read more »
Some new cats were visiting my yard and the weather was mild so I decided to set out traps overnight. I call this stealth trapping, because sometimes this way you end up getting cats you didn’t even know existed. I set out traps in my secret, secure locations that I sleuthed out over the… Read more »
So this cat showed up in my yard a couple of weeks ago. Jim put traps out immediately but the cat never came back. Ever since then, I’ve been watching a house leave a lot of garbage in our alley, like they’re moving. And I started seeing a lot of cat supplies with the garbage…. Read more »
Nineteen inches is a lot of snow all at once. Jim did most of the heavy shoveling since I was out of town for work and missed the storm. Mooha helped me with the little bit of shoveling that was left yesterday afternoon. I made sure to clear out the cat paths so that… Read more »
You can hardly see Funny Face in my yard when it snows out.