Another Kitten Caught!!!!

I had quite a successful day today!

I started out by setting the trap in the same place as last time. I did exactly the same thing as before, taking all the food away from all of the feeding stations and dumping it. I made lots of noise with the food, and called the kitties as if I was actually feeding them instead of setting a trap. Then I left to go dump the food in a trash can, and when I came back I biked slowly by the trap, and noticed a cat about to go in. It was the black and white cat hiding in the bushes in the picture below. I decided to bike around a bit and come back so that if I did catch that cat, I could let it out. (It's already been trapped. You can't tell in the picture, but it has an ear tip.) As I was biking away, I saw another cat, one I'd seen before. He was out hunting. It's hard to see it in the picture below, but the white ear has an ear tip.

When I came back to the trap, the black and white cat was still there but had apparently remembered its previous experience with the trap, and was sitting nearby. (That's when I took the picture.) I also noticed two tabby kittens. I had thought that there was only one tabby kitten, but obviously there were two. (Lynne had noticed another tabby kitten when she released the first, but I had thought it was the mother.) I took a picture (see above) and then saw the second tabby kitten as it ran away from me. I'm guessing this was the one that I just trapped, but it was going too fast for me to see for an ear tip. So since there were kittens around, I decided to again bike around the field for a bit.

This time I had a kitten! The second tabby kitten was in the trap, and had not yet realized that it was trapped, poor thing. After it had calmed down, I strapped the trap onto my bike and we went back to my house. Lynne picked it up later that evening, and tomorrow morning I will hopefully get to watch the spay or neuter in person!