TNR Success

We have been feeding this kitty for a few months. We are unsure if kitty is male or female but we will know for sure this evening :) We trapped him last night. The trap is twice as long but you can only see half of it. He will be spay/neutered today and re-released in a day or so back to his home. We will continue feeding him every day. It's great to feed feral cats but its better to fix them & feed them. This way they don't multiply. It also helps lessen the spread of disease, bc males that are fixed fight & roam much less. We have one more kitty to fix and then we may have completed our Madison Street colony!! Some kitties that we trap can be adopted out but some are just too feral. This kitty, although beautiful, is too feral to adopt out. Sometimes after they are fixed they become friendlier, so we will see if that happens. If he becomes a mush then we will try and find him a happy indoor home. :)

UPDATE: Kitty (who I have named Maxi) was a female AND in the very early stages of pregnancy with 5 kittens! This was a great TNR. If she wasn't trapped, she would have had the litter of 5 kittens. 2 or 3 of them would have likely been female, and those females would have also been pregnant in 5-6 months. By the fall, we could have had an extra +/- 20 cats living on the street. I am so happy Maxi is fixed now. She is only a baby herself, 9 months old. She was too feral to adopt out so we re-released her to her home last night. She did great post surgery and is so much better off now. Maxi will continue to be fed everyday and will not have to worry about getting pregnant anymore :)