Volunteers #5 & #6

Chalk 'em up, here are our 5th and 6th trapped feral cats. Their photos are after surgery, so they're a little groggy. These ladies won't have to know the hardship of giving birth in the wild.

 "Tux"

Tux may be a funny name for a girl, but of the whole colony, she is the only one with a tuxedo style coat pattern. She is from a spring 2015 litter. We set the trap up and went in the house to get food for the trap. When we came back outside, she was already in the food-less trap waiting. We are manually tripping the traps, so we just pulled the rope and got her.

"Pale Spotted Tabby"

Pale Tabby is also from a litter in spring 2015. She is pretty big and we thought she was a boy because of her size. The dull fur coloring trait is pretty popular in the colony, as well as the spotted tabby pattern. She happened to get them both.

An hour after we let Tux go, she was right back in the traps for some food. We'd been told that after a cat is trapped, they would most likely avoid going back in. Half of the cats we've caught have gone back in the traps later, and all of the already-fixed cats (that would have been trapped in the past at some point) go in, too.