Backyard Catz Trapping and Dexing Begins

Over the last two weeks have begun trapping and desexing the cats at the Grey Lynn colony. There are eight adults and one kitten in total. On our first visit we caught two tabby females, who we subsequently called Possum and Tangelo, and a little black and white male kitten we now call Mr Monochrome.

We had Possum (the larger one) and Tangelo (the small tabby/tortie) desexed, defleaed and wormed the following day. We then kept them at home for a week until they had healed and a bit and to get them used to people. They were surprisingly easy to handle.

As for Mr Monochrome when we got him he had cat flu, was covered in fleas and was very malnourished. Being that he was so little and unwell we decided to keep him with us until he finds a home. He is far to young to be desexed at the moment and even to be treated with normal flea treatment so we gave a flea bath instead.

After a week at home we returned Possum and Tangelo to the colony and trapped more cats. This time we only caught two; a young ginger male and a slightly older black and white male who might be Mr Monochromes dad. We suspect the cats might be getting wise to our trapping plan as they are way more cautious now.


When we feed the rest of the cats Possum and Tangelo were much less scared of us than they had been before they stayed with us.


The two males we trapped were taken home and desexed, de-fleaed and wormed the following day. The ginger one we call Pumpkin and the black and white one we call Mr Monochrome Senior as he is probably Mr Monochromes dad.


They have been here a week now and we will be returning them tonight and trying to trap the remaining two females and one ginger male.