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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 12, 2006 23:00:54 GMT
OK... A colleague of mine has asked me for help today as an ex neighbour of his down the road who had a cat, but got evicted a few weeks ago had left their cat behind. Anyway, my colleague, being an animal lover wants to try and catch this cat to rehome it. Apparantly it was a longhaired ginger tom but now has such a matted coat it has managed to get dreadlocks and is soooooo thin and timid and is starting to get ill. Anyway I said I'd try and help him design a cage to tempt it in with food to trap it, so it can be rehomed, but don't really know how to go about it. Any ideas and tips anyone, please?
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Post by Geoff on May 13, 2006 8:19:51 GMT
Could you borrow a cat trap from someone like the RSPCA. Or you could get Stuart from the Animal Reception Centre at the airport onto it!
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 13, 2006 11:35:57 GMT
Geoff, that's an excellent idea. Am at work at the airport today, so am going to try and get the nmber of the Animal Quarantine area and see if they will help, if not will try the RSPCA. and see if they will lend us one. My colleague phoned them and they didn't want to know, but maybe if we do the work ourselves, they may lend us one. The poor thing has no idea how to survive as is not used to having to fend for themselves, so has been surviving from opening binbags and eating scraps.
How anyone can move house and leave their furry friends behind is inexcusable to me. Then again apparantly they were a troublemaking family who were evicted so probably weren't nice people in the first place. They also used to breed puppies in bad conditions... Not good.
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Post by Gliondrach on May 13, 2006 12:39:34 GMT
If you can't get a special cage you could use a large cardboard box. Turn it upside down, prop up one end on a stick lightly anchored in the ground, put some food in, when the cat goes in pull the stick away with a piece of twine attached to it. Make sure it's a big, sturdy box that won't blow over with the slightes puff of wind or when the cat brushes against it. People use this method to catch pigeons.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 13, 2006 23:41:50 GMT
Thanks Gliondrach. May do that. We used a similar method on the bunny catching rescue we went on for 3 days over Christmas. My bf ended up luring them out with Heinz vegetable soup and they loved it! Have managed to find a UK company that does cat traps. Anyone think this will do the trick if I order it? www.trapman.co.uk/cat-trap.htm
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Post by Geoff on May 14, 2006 10:41:42 GMT
It looks OK to me and they give comprehensive instructions.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 14, 2006 21:32:36 GMT
It looks OK to me and they give comprehensive instructions. Me and comprehensive instructions don't go well. The cat will probably end up on the outside and me on the inside! ;D Will give 'em a bell in the morning and order it.
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Post by Gliondrach on May 14, 2006 23:14:36 GMT
I still like the cardboard box idea. Much cheaper. And they work -I was once caught in one.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 14, 2006 23:16:04 GMT
I still like the cardboard box idea. Much cheaper. And they work -I was once caught in one. Please explain, could do with a grin, spent all day in a smelly hospital so need cheering up! ;D
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Post by Gliondrach on May 14, 2006 23:28:23 GMT
It was all very embarrassing. Actually, it involved a hospital. There had been reports of a prowler outside the nurses's home for several nights running. I just happened to be waiting for a bus one night when I found myself trapped in this large cardboard box that had been set up as a trap. I explained to the police that I thought it was a bus shelter but they wouldn't believe me. They pointed out that the nearest road was half a mile away. And footprints in a flower bed two days before matched mine. As I said, it was all very embarrassing.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 14, 2006 23:33:19 GMT
You do get yourself into some scrapes! He he, you young whippersnapper!
So you weren't the prowler that used to spy on my mum and her friends in the sixties when she was a young nurse in a nurses home? They used to shin up drainpipes then!
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Post by Gliondrach on May 14, 2006 23:39:41 GMT
That was not me!!! That was never proved. Just because I have a limp after fallng off a drain pipe doesn't prove anything.
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Post by Tiggerwoos on May 15, 2006 0:03:20 GMT
That was not me!!! That was never proved. Just because I have a limp after fallng off a drain pipe doesn't prove anything. I believe you, thousands wouldn't! ;D
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