ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!!!!
Aug. 26th, 2019 12:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgynleriWE CAUGHT THE THIRD KITTEN THIS MORNING!
*does a happy dance*
45 minutes of paitient waiting and coaxing and putting out a trail of food into the trap and encouraging her and chasing off mama cat who has been trying to chase off kitten, and finally, FINALLY, the kitten steps on the trigger and the trap clangs shut, and I can celebrate because now we have all the kittens.
Her first vet appointment is tomorrow at 2, and I got to get dad to help me close up some holes in the walls of the bathroom, and then I can have crates in there to provide safe places to hide, but I leave it open and the litter boxes stay OUT of the big crate, and I take the plants out of the bathtub and put them elsewhere, where the kittens cannot nibble them and possibly hurt themselves, and then the kittens can have the entire bathroom to explore and be kittens in together while I get the rest of the apartment kitten safed. And more of a barrier into the bedroom doorway so they can't get in there because it's very not cat safe at this point (and also would be hard to get them out of some places in there).
(So much cleaning to do. So. Much. Will have help, though, and hopefully it won't take more than a couple weeks.)
*does a happy dance*
45 minutes of paitient waiting and coaxing and putting out a trail of food into the trap and encouraging her and chasing off mama cat who has been trying to chase off kitten, and finally, FINALLY, the kitten steps on the trigger and the trap clangs shut, and I can celebrate because now we have all the kittens.
Her first vet appointment is tomorrow at 2, and I got to get dad to help me close up some holes in the walls of the bathroom, and then I can have crates in there to provide safe places to hide, but I leave it open and the litter boxes stay OUT of the big crate, and I take the plants out of the bathtub and put them elsewhere, where the kittens cannot nibble them and possibly hurt themselves, and then the kittens can have the entire bathroom to explore and be kittens in together while I get the rest of the apartment kitten safed. And more of a barrier into the bedroom doorway so they can't get in there because it's very not cat safe at this point (and also would be hard to get them out of some places in there).
(So much cleaning to do. So. Much. Will have help, though, and hopefully it won't take more than a couple weeks.)
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Date: 2019-08-26 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-26 08:08 pm (UTC)(They're on leashes when not in the crate right now so I can give them run around time without worrying about finding them in the wall again. They had, fortunately, not figured out climbing up the inside of the wall to get away, just stacked themselves. That was when the no outside the crate without leashes rule happened.)
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Date: 2019-08-26 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-26 10:24 pm (UTC)Leashes are also excellent for picking up reluctant cattens from their hidey holes, as Calleigh has discovered to her dismay. She also nearly got out of her harness, which involved gloved hands so I did not get bit while getting her picked up to put a harness on. She was less bitey while readjusting the harness to proper tightness for less escapeyness. I am very glad she has decided that less bitey is good.
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