Spot Spot! Welcome to the horse farm

I traded an aggressive, un-neutered feral adult male cat for two non-dominant spayed feral (maybe) females.

I definitely got the best of the deal. And hopefully they did too, although it will take a bit to be sure.

Patches had sadly been getting more aggressive as time went on. He had attacked 2 of the other kitties, one of which sadly didn’t make it. I had been hoping the problem just “went away”, but when I heard another set of squabbling on the front porch, it was time to do something before another kitty got hurt.

So the trap got set. Of course Patches put himself in the trap on a (rainy) Thursday afternoon. And of course the spay neuter clinic operated on Thursday, so they were done for the week. Friday morning when I called the animal shelter, they pointed me to Purr Inc.

Anna Marie not only answered the phone but agreed to take Patches in, especially when I said he could come back after neutering if need be. After some back and forth, Anna Marie asked if I might be interested in taking in 2 non-dominant very feral spayed females. I was game, especially when she said that Purr Inc would take them back if it didn’t work out. I was actually more concerned that my ferals might attache the new pair more than the other way around.

We had to wait a week while the new girls healed from their surgeries. Finally the day came to turn them loose at the farm!

Anna Marie opened the cages. Pouf was the first to come out. Poof! She immediated darted out a hole in the back wall of the stall.

Spot was the next out. I initially christened her Slinky, since when she reached up to claw at the door to get out she was about 4 feet from front claws to her back feet and about 2 inches wide. I later renamed her Sleek as being more flattering, but my instinctive name for her rapidly became Spot. She quickly saw another opening under the door and was gone.

Both kitties vanished. Neither reappeared for several days.