Not too long ago, Bastrop C.A.T.S. received a call from a neighborhood church that one of the parishioners, who is in poor health, was overrun with outdoor cats. So cute, but so many!
Three Bastrop C.A.T.S. volunteers stepped up to help. Together, we trapped and fixed 35 adult cats: 25 females and ten toms. Of the females, five were lactating and seven were in heat. This colony was rapidly growing with no prior intervention or TNR!
But we couldn’t just spay/neuter the adults; we knew we had to find all the kittens as well.
Over the next few weeks, volunteers located 21 kittens between 6 and 10 weeks of age. All of the kittens were placed into foster homes and were eventually adopted.
All of this was accomplished through the work of our volunteers as the caretaker was not able to help with the trapping operation. We trapped, transported, and provided post-op care to the cats, as many of the females needed a few extra nights of crate rest and extra care. One of our fabulous volunteers even took time off her paying job to take care of these cats!
If the neighborhood church hadn’t called us, the colony could have grown even more as an unaltered female cat can produce three to six litters per year with litter sizes ranging from four to six kittens. A single unspayed female cat and her offspring can produce more than 400,000 cats in their lifetime.
Thanks to the proactive church, we were able to prevent further feral kittens.
This was an heroic deed for sure. by the church and especially by Bastrop Cats!!!!
This was an heroic deed for sure. by the church and especially by Bastrop Cats!!!! This is coming up that I commented before. Nope — this is the first comment about this particular article.