Hey guys, say hi!
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So we have two cats.
My mom caught them and we're taking them to get spayed and neutered.
- And they're not just random cats.
They are cats, I don't know, if they're feral or stray,
whatever you consider them.
I think they're feral.
- Yep.
Guys, we are at the animal shelter, as you can see animal services.
And we're waiting for them to open so that they can take the cats.
And spay and neuter them.
They're just still chillin back here.
It’s okay guys, we're going to get you in there.
This is where it's really at. * jazzy music*
The dogs finally stopped barking.
They took the cats, though.
- They're bringing us another trap. - Mhm.
Let's see if we can get more.
Yes. - It's actually like non-removable.
- Oh, that's fine.
- Yeah. -I just want to make sure it's locked.
So the hooks right
here, so it goes through that.
So the door closes.
So. - All right.
What did you say the cut off time today was?
- Just call us.
- We have a new trap and we're going to try to catch as many as we can today.
And so we're only giving them a small amount of food,
because the lady in the YouTube
video said they only need a little because they're getting surgery.
And I'm covering it now because we have cats in the house
that also like the food.
- Specifically this one right here.
- Okay.
So the the lady said that we have to put a small blanket on the inside
and a blanket over top, otherwise they'll thrash around.
And she showed me how to set it.
If I can I remember how to do this without smashing my fingers now.
Oh, goes up and then it catches on this.
Okay, now I have to get the small blanket.
The shelter was kind enough to provide us with a small blanket
to cover the trap area back there.
Just using a household flyswatter to make this happen.
Because this cage is so long and... oh,
that's very touchy.
Like that'll just snap right close.
- And this specifically is a humane trap
that's built for trapping cats for spaying and neutering.
- Yes, no injuries will occur.
Here's the food on the fly swatter so I can get it
all the way back there.
Put it beyond the trigger.
Oh, darn.
Oh well, they’ll eat it still.
They don't need... they don't need that paper towel.
So now we're going to cover it.
And I hope they smell the food
because there's nothing hanging around at the moment.
They need to go in there and eat that food.
- So now we're just waiting for the cat
to go into the trap and then we can take them to the shelter.
They were saying that basically we can
bring in cats like four days out of the week.
And what they do
is they take the cat to a local vet where they get spayed or neutered
and then they clip their ear and then they release them back into our neighborhood.
After a few days of observing them.
Now we’re just watching out the back window
to see what the cats do.
There's like... they're so cute, though.
I hope we trap this one that's like a tiny version of the Baby Queen.
Oh, okay. Okay. They're going.
They’re... they're going.
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Did we get them? No?
We didn't put the food far enough in.
So we're just having problems.
The cats are like going in, but they're also coming out
just perfectly fine without it closing on them.
Which is just super frustrating.
Right?
But I'm taking a moment to make myself a smoothie
because I still have to eat,
despite the fact that the cats just will not be trapped.
Why won't they just go in?
Why won't they just
just do what's good for bad as Megamind
would say.
Okay, we caught one.
- We got Gus He, Gus, is the father of this colony, grandfather
and the great grandfather.
- Yep.
- And he's mad?
- * Cat hisses* - He's very angry.
He was being real tricky.
- Yeah.
He went into the trap twice and came back out without it going off.
So I think he got very emboldened with his abilities.
Well, he's he's kind of the guy who thinks he's all that.
Let's be honest here.
He does.
- Hey Siri, call animal shelter.
- Calling animal shelter mobile.
- We captured another cat.
We're bringing them in to get fixed.
We're on our way right now.
Thank you.
Sounds like Gus has calm down.
- Yeah.
He's accepted his fate.
I know.
I really hope the white one that was right there.
- Is not afraid? -Yeah.
- It's like there was two black ones earlier.
The two cute black kittens.
One of them set the trap off and ran away.
- Yeah. - We thought we caught one, but we didn't.
So hopefully these cats aren’t getting smarter.
- Yeah.
- Okay, so the vet lady or she's not a vet.
What is she, an animal control person?
Officer?
Is bringing us another trap, but she's like,
“I hope I have another trap.” - Yeah.
- So what if they run out of traps?
- I know we've already gone through two.
- Yeah, I was wanting to catch them all day today.
- Yeah,
maybe that'll make the other cats forget what they saw.
- Yes. - If we have to stop today.
- Maybe I could just start catching one every night when I get home from work.
- Yeah. - And I get
and I have people at work that have traps that have offered them to me.
So I’ll have to take advantage of those too.
- The dodegies are just stuck here.
So we now have their last cage that they have available right now.
So we can only catch probably one more cat.
- Today. Hopefully that happens. - Yeah.
We'll probably never have a repeat of being able to catch two at once.
That was probably. - Yeah. - A crazy.
- Unless they're super hungry the next morning that I attempt this.
- Yeah. - With the cage.
- They told us that all three of them that we brought in are guys.
So like I knew about the one we just brought.
We call him Gus and he does.
He thinks he is all of that.
And he’s the ultimate ladies man.
- We're pretty sure he's like the patriarch of the whole colony.
Cat colony. - It’s true.
Like he has his girlfriends.
- Pretty sure he's related to all these kittens.
- Yeah.
So, guys,
I didn't even get to finish making my smoothie
because we had to run out the door with that last cat.
And so my mom’s out there setting up the next trap.
And I think it's going to be a little bit harder to catch anybody
this time because so many of them saw it work on the last cat.
And then also they've all disappeared.
Usually there's at least like one random cat hanging out in our backyard,
but right now they have all vanished.
But hopefully they will smell the food that goes inside the trap
because you have to like prime the trap with a little bit of food.
I'm going to be linking below to the really helpful video
someone made about how this works. And.
Just in case you want to participate in one of these programs in your own city,
because I feel like a lot of cities have these programs is called
like the trap neuter release or like return.
This time I like tucked the sheet around the back.
So that they can’t.
- Oh, that is a smart idea.
So they can’t steal the food from behind.
- Yes.
- Now I can put it further back.
- Nice.
Okay, so I made a cranberry and canned peach smoothie,
and it's not recommended.
I just had half a can
of peaches left over from yesterday, and I was like,
“I should just throw it in the smoothie with the only juice I have,
which is cranberry juice.”
No, it's not good at all. Yeah.
You know, the more
I savor this flavor, the more I think that it could possibly be good.
If it had just an immense amount of sugar in it.
I bet if you pump this thing full of sugar, it'd be great.
But I don't like putting sugar in my smoothies because that's not
the purpose of my smoothie.
It's to help me help not make everything sugary.
We got another captive.
Are you going to get a surgery?
- St George animal shelter.
This is Brandy.
- I have one more cat I'm bringing in with a cat trap.
- Here we are with another cat.
So I feel like I've recorded this
red rock as we've been driving up here a few different times.
But I just thought you guys might want to see it.
This is what the area I live in looks like it's very red.
People will say that like it looks like Cars
or it looks like a martian alien planet.
And it it kind of does.
- All right. So we just dropped off our fourth kitty today,
and this is my first time doing this, as you can tell.
- Yup. She is a newbie.
I am a newbie.
- And I've already learned a few things. So next time
I'll be a professional doing this.
- And also like if you want to do this, but you feel like overwhelmed
because you're not a professional.
Look, we call four cats before noon. So.
- Yeah. So we're doing pretty good. - Yeah.
And you guys can do well too.
Aspire to your cat fixing dreams.
- And help keep the local pet population, I mean,
stray cat population low.