PHOTO GALLERY

These are some photos taken during our cat trapping adventures!  

**Warning - some of these photos include graphic content of cats whose injuries we have encountered and helped heal.**
​This sweet female cat was trapped on Ivy St. near Chico State.  The finder, who was not feeding her, was a CSUC student who reported that this cat had had three litters that she knew of in the past year (including last summer).  Yikes!  Volunteer trapper Shelly asked the finder to start feeding the cat (to make trapping easier); within a week, the cat was trapped, spayed, and returned to her home.  A great success, thanks to NCA and help from the community!  
​Here are some photos from a spring 2016 trapping expedition at a mobile home park in Chico.  Of the 6 cats that the NCA volunteers were trying to trap, NONE were trapped.  This is because the finder didn't know where the cats were being fed, only where the cats hung out.  Without some knowledge of where the cats are being fed, and the ability to withhold food for a day prior to trapping to make sure the cats are hungry and motivated to go into the traps, it's very hard to get the cats into the trap!  
​Inside this trap is a beautiful, very feral black cat. She and another female cat from her colony were taken in for spay surgery and were found to have pyometra, a terrible infection of the uterus that is fatal if untreated. 

Removal of the uterus and an antibiotic shot is all it takes to treat this terrible condition, so these cats are back at their neighborhood home, healthy and spayed. Thank you to Brittany, who trapped and looks after these cats!
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​In May 2016, we got a call about a little feral black cat with a nasty looking injury on its neck. An embedded collar injury? A fight? Dog attack? Not sure - let's get it to the vet ASAP!

Awesome volunteer trapper Armeda was able to trap the cat in short order, with help from the cat's finder (who was also feeding the cat - yay!). The cat went to the vet where she was found to have a large open wound on her neck that went up to her lower jaw, possibly from a dog attack. Yikes. 

The little cat was sewn up, spayed, and after some recovery time was returned to her home, where the finder will continue to feed and care for her. The stitches are dissolvable, so unless there are complications, she won't even need to return to the vet. A win-win all around - this cat is healed, hopefully will stay away from dogs in the future, and won't be contributing to the large cat overpopulation in our community.