Foster Updates
Gnocchi is still here, but I haven't noticed any new bald spots in a week and she's regrowing hair on the old ones. We've started the long process of running weekly cultures until she's had two negative results in a row, at which point she will be declared cured.
Lulu is doing great! She is just here to finish the full 84 days of FIP medication. Look how high she can jump now:
I also have a second FIP cat, Nimbus, in my bedroom. He is both afraid of people and loves to be brushed and stroked, so there is often a 30-second transition from hissing to purring. We'll be working on socialization while waiting for his meds to work.
But outside...
It's a Trap!
On Wednesday, I noticed a suspiciously rotund cat squeeze through the fence into my neighbor's yard, so I texted her the "fat or pregnant?" question and she responded "pregnant".
(All the cats that hang out in my yard are fixed. I don't feed any outside cats. The neighbor behind me feeds, but she's been working on getting everyone fixed for the last four years. I thought we had gotten everyone spayed last fall, but apparently there are still two — the one I saw and her daughter.)
I asked the foster coordinator if I could get the soon-to-arrive kittens into the foster program, and she offered me a spot on the spay schedule Friday (if I could catch her by then) or Wednesday (if I had better luck over the weekend).
So last night I was sitting in my car, avoiding the mosquitos, while I watched the baited trap in the alley. No luck, though I started documenting the other cats so I know who is around. But my neighbors trapped the younger female cat, who is almost certainly pregnant even if she's not as big yet.
I had to bring the trapped cat to the shelter at 8am this morning, so I decided to try one more time to catch the super-pregnant cat. The trap was baited, the sun was rising, and I was sitting in my car watching.
Super-pregnant mom walked over the the trap, sat down next to it, and proceeded to stare at me for 30 minutes. Then she stood up and waddled away.
I am borrowing a drop trap.
