Got 'em all

Finally! We caught the last cat from Lake Wylie. It is not a happy camper. My shower curtain is no longer hanging. I haven't been able to get too close to "Wylie" yet. I did see it's foot while in the cage. Looks like it is fully healed from whatever took it off. I hope to get a better look at it within a week. And this cat is big. Really big! And very heavy.
I also need to make sure what the sex is. I'm pretty sure it's a boy. I've been able to pet him, only on the head, and he has some fat jaws. I'm hoping being around Brim and Tuna will calm him down. They don't seem to have a problem with him being in there. I got some pictures of all of them together.
When I went in early this afternoon, they were all cuddled together and it was so sweet looking. I went for the camera but when I got back, Tuna had moved to the food bowl and Brim was eating the mackeral.
Wylie has such a mean scowl on his face. He's scary just to look at.

Let's get back to the names. Tuna does not come to Tuna. Wylie probably won't come to Wylie. So I have decided to name them all Brim since that is the name they are used to and they all come to it. So Brim is Brim. Tuna is Brim 2 and Wylie will be Brim 3. But on the paperwork, Tuna and Wylie will be in parentheses.

As long as Wylie doesn't get sick or show signs of illness, he will go with Brim & Tuna on March 4th to the spay/neuter clinic.

I was able to get some good pics before finishing this post. I was also able to pet him on the head and chin for quite some time.
I would like you to share this post/story. I would like for this little family to stay together. It's obvious as you can see in the pictures, they love each other.

Last night:

Today:

I want to thank Anne for all her help with Wylie. She fed him every day until we could catch him. Not even bad weather stopped her from checking on him and feeding him. Thank you!

No cat but...

I'm still out trying to catch the last cat at Lake Wylie. It's a sly little booger.
So instead of catching the cat, I caught a raccoon. The look on it's face was screaming "please don't hurt me!". It was so pitiful.
Here are the pics of it. And please pray and keep your fingers crossed that we will catch Wylie this weekend. Oh, btw, I have decided to name them Brim, Brim 2, Brim 3 (we'll drop the number when they get adopted out). That name is the only name they will come to.
One more thing: I've said it on Facebook and now I'm saying here, Lynette - you rock! I really feel God sent you my way through Jo Ann. He knew I was at my wit's end and then you appear. Again, YOU are the reason two feral cats are healthy. YOU are the reason my crew never has to go hungry. I wish I could hug you :)

And please don't forget to check out Lynette's auctions and raffles. All monies go toward animal care. A link to her page is located on the right side of blog. After you 'like' the page, ou can see so many wonderful items.

Lake Wylie cats

I'd like to apologize to every one who follows this blog. I have been a little under the weather since Christmas.

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