It's been all I could do to get back to Lake Wylie and try to catch the feral cats out there. Last summer I fished several times a week. There was a mom cat with 5 kittens, another cat that looked like the mom (sister maybe?) and a third cat with long hair that looks like the other two adults. I fed them fish straight from the lake.
I took several large catfish out to the lake to feed them all at the end of December. Unfortunately one of the adults were gone and four kittens were also gone.
I caught the last remaining kitten who I named Tuna and a few days later I caught the mom who I had already named Brim (because we fed her brim fish all summer). The other adult with long hair has it's front left paw missing. I don't know how the injury occurred. There's plenty of broken bottles and glass near the piers. It could be he (we believe it's a male) landed on a shard of glass and cut it clean off. I was able to get close enough to see from the front that no bone was visible.
I have tried catching him but he's pretty smart. Right now, another woman, Anne, has been going out to feed him. I'm worried a bit because we just got over a foot of snow. There isn't much cover out there. I haven't been back there in a few weeks due to my health and because Brim & Tuna have been very ill. The vet said they had a really bad URI but I believe both contacted Distemper. I know enough to know the signs.
It's been touch and go with them. I was very worried about Tuna as she didn't have much weight on her to begin with. When a kitten doesn't eat or drink on it's own, it's around the clock medical care.
Thankfully, she and her mom are on the up swing and are eating and drinking on their own now.
As long as they continue to have good health, they both will be spayed on March 4th.
Then I will be putting all my efforts towards catching Wylie. That foot missing has us all perplexed.
Tuna
Brim
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