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chilipeppermaniac said:
My latest Cat
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Actually, my 5 year old male feral Tux, Blackie and I have had a revisit from my newly captured and TNR'd 3 year old who I named White Spot. WS was only an occasional visitor to the property in his 3 years of lfe in the wild. Back in April. he appeared after my not seeing him all Winter. For some reason, WS and Blackie even seemed more friendly toward one another as he became a regular to the driveway and door step. This was not the case in the past 3 years. Blackie, who is neutered, is still territorial and liked to try to use aggression to scare him off which led me to attribute any facial nicks and scrapes on Blackie, to fights with White Spot. However, the scratches seemed to disappear over Winter while WS was AWOL. As little as he is, historically WS was not one to fear Blackie nor back down. He was afraid of me however.

Flash forward to our now seeing WS regularly, and him even coming when I'd call him or Blackie in to get fed. We are talking Mid April. Coinciding with White Spot's reappearance, my Kathy and I returned from Ohio and she tells me that a large Gray Tabby was in the driveway. Long story short, from that night on, I began to hear and see the stalking, yowling and snarling cat sounds of fights as they ensued. From my realization that this scrawny under 10 lb White Spot was punching out of his weight class by at least 5-6 lbs if he had to protect himself from Blackie or Tiger as I am now calling the Gray Tabby. Before I knew it, WS had serious wounds on his left front leg, and if I did nothing to win him over and TNR him, he would likely receive more and worse wounds that could compromise his healthy future.

I won't post any pics of the worst of the injuries, but in addition to body fur missing here and there, he began to come in to my calls, 3 legged. He was carrying his left front one off the ground. Knowing that Baltimore County Animal Services either euthanizes cats wounded by unknown means, ( rabies concerns) I had to figure out another way to get traps and a vet willing to neuter and vax him despite unknown rabies status. I got 2 loaner traps from a private feral cat advocacy group in a different county and an appointment at the wonderful clinic to do his TNR surgery, exam, vaccines. I am truly thankful to these people for helping me catch him, and for the vet doing his wound care in addition to just his vaccines and reproductive needs. Dr Owens truly helped me heal him up and give him the best shot at another 6-8-10+ years of living.

As the pics will show, Despite my efforts to catch Tabby since April, and catching the " funny looking cat" instead of the Tabby 2 times in July, I finally caught the elusive and wary Tabby on Wednesday or Thursday. He is now off at the transporter lady for a Tuesday appointment at the county vet who will do the TNR on him unless they deem him to have grounds to euthanize him/ require me to do a 120 day quarantine if I do not want him destroyed. Unfortunately, these are the terms of utilizing the free services for TNR with Baltimore County and being within their safety protocol for rabies. We will know more on Tuesday. After that, I will have to be ready for managing him and hopefully keeping him and the other 2 cats, fight, wound, infectious disease free.
 
White Spot now as he healed up completely in 2 weeks time after vet trip 2. Here he is after 1 month isolation from coons, ferals, foxes etc. He even eats from my hands now. Working on picking him up and holding him without him stressing or causing him to be in fear of grave danger. You can see his deformed right ear which I believe happened in fights years before he now became brave enough to make human contact with me.
 

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Saturday, I dropped Tiger off with the lady who will transport him to the county for TNR on Tuesday. She's a machine where it comes to trapping, transport, helping others do likewise. My sis said she's done it for over 20 years. I cannot imagine the number of unwanted wild kittens she has prevented from being born just in Baltimore County in a 20 year span 365 days a year. SG John and his wife know about caregiving to colonies. Mine began as a colony of a momma n her 2 boys, to just my Blackie surviving 2021-2026, bro n momma passed away. And now he has to adjust to no longer being the sole resident of our yard.
 
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