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[Marylyn]

Check with Alley Cat Advocates or any TNR group in your area.   
Consider them a feral colony.  They will help you.  Live trapping is  
easy.  Just remember to be very careful.  A feral bit my finger and  
broke it.....and, two surgeries later, it is doing fine.  Luckily I  
had good insurance.  And still had possession of the cat so she could  
be spayed and quarantined for the appropriate amount of time.  If your  
cats really want to be outside, put up a dog kennel so they can go  
thru the pet door into the kennel.  It is great.  With farmland, you  
probably have fox and coyote.  They will kill a cat in a heart beat.   
My Mom has ferals (people dump them in the strip mall behind her  
property) and she has to be concerned about the hawks.  I just got a  
very small kitten from the pine thicket.  She is in the bedroom now,  
napping.  All of this is to say, be careful with your own cats.  I did  
not realize all the dangers when I moved to the farm.  I had hoped to  
have lots of cared for outside cats. That probably won't happen.  Help  
the ferals you can.  Mom has had a couple of dozen spayed/neutered and  
released.  Some stay, some go.  It is very hard when they go and all  
you can do is hope they found a good place to live.  ACA has a good  
website with lots of information re caring for ferals.

I am very sorry Trixter left this world.  I just lost Dixie Louise.   
She made my life so much better though.  I would not have missed one  
second of the time we had together.  Not a nano second.

Good luck.
On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Sharon Harden wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Felv and just lost my Trixter to this awful Disease. I  
> want to thank all of you for the information I have been reading  
> from you all.
>
> I have many ferals around my house because of the 3 fields that  
> surround me. I have talked to the farmer but he is not interested in  
> trying to help me help his cats. I have had to close up my cat door  
> to protect my other 3.
>
>
>
> I dont know anything about rounding them up and would hate to catch  
> them just to be put to death. Any suggestions.
>
>
> Regards to all, Sharon
>
>
>
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