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On Thursday evening we finally took the semi-feral cat that has adopted us to the vet to be spayed. We were expecting trouble - she is all teeth and claws when cornered - so took her the night before. There was no way we'd be able to get her in the travel box after keeping her shut up overnight.
She just meowed sadly on the way, but at least its only ten minutes away.
And we duly collected her on Friday evening, 107 Euros worse off. More meowing. As she cannot come in the house (Mr PP is allergic and she is not house trained) we rigged up a big wooden crate with enough room for a dirt tray, bed and food/water bowls. This we shut in the shed so the other cats would leave her alone.
I was amazed how easy she was to transfer into the box as she hates being picked up. We kept her in until this morning (2 nights) to give her time to get over the anaesthesia and do a bit of healing. This morning we fed her and then carried her onto the terrace where she normally hangs out and fed her again. I was anticipating her high-tailing it into the distance never to be seen again, but instead she has hung around, been stroked (never before) and generally behaved as if nothing odd has happened. Contrary beast!!
I now wish we'd been brave enough to try earlier in the year as we would now have 2 cats not 4. Six weeks time her kittens go to be done and hopefully that will stop this colony getting any bigger!
It'll be interesting to see if we get any comments from the village, as this cat has been around a while, is fed by lots of people and kept having kittens. Why was nobody prepared to just get it done?
She just meowed sadly on the way, but at least its only ten minutes away.
And we duly collected her on Friday evening, 107 Euros worse off. More meowing. As she cannot come in the house (Mr PP is allergic and she is not house trained) we rigged up a big wooden crate with enough room for a dirt tray, bed and food/water bowls. This we shut in the shed so the other cats would leave her alone.
I was amazed how easy she was to transfer into the box as she hates being picked up. We kept her in until this morning (2 nights) to give her time to get over the anaesthesia and do a bit of healing. This morning we fed her and then carried her onto the terrace where she normally hangs out and fed her again. I was anticipating her high-tailing it into the distance never to be seen again, but instead she has hung around, been stroked (never before) and generally behaved as if nothing odd has happened. Contrary beast!!
I now wish we'd been brave enough to try earlier in the year as we would now have 2 cats not 4. Six weeks time her kittens go to be done and hopefully that will stop this colony getting any bigger!
It'll be interesting to see if we get any comments from the village, as this cat has been around a while, is fed by lots of people and kept having kittens. Why was nobody prepared to just get it done?
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