April 2009

I discovered a new colony of cats across from where I've been feeding and trapping. The business owners nearby have been feeding them each day, but they have not been fixed. There is a trailer park right nearby, so my guess is that a lot have come from there and are of varying degrees of feral/stray, and some have been fixed already.

The first cat I trapped was an orange male, who was already neutered, so he just got vaccinations, and an ear notch.

This is the second kitty:



He was an unneutered male, and they discovered he had an abscess on his neck, most likely from fighting. So he got neutered, vaccinated, and the abscess shaven, drained and cleaned. He also got FELV tested since it was obvious he'd been in a fight, and thankfully it was negative. Luckily, none of the cats in my area have tested positive for diseases, and hopefully it will remain that way.