Trapping begins....

Well we got off to a slow start... 1 cat. The little black guy below to be exact. Got a bit worried when for the next 30 minutes no-one went in a trap. I brought some dried food but the cats were too impressed and even ave the impression they were not that hungry. As luck would have it and old lady push a cart turned up and out popped the cats [this is not the woman we had thought would turn up as she got taken into hospital today]. She dropped down a bunch of spaghetti and meat balls the cats wolfed it down! Seems I have been using the wrong bait. Had a bit of a mis-understanding with the woman when she kept trying to put a whole load of food at the mouth of the traps and I tried to explain it should only be a little and at the back.... She then walked down the road and all the damn cats followed her like the pied piper! Put a crimp in the old trapping plans. It was slow going until she came back and now dropped a slew of sardines and other fish bits..... out come the cats again. Anyway, cut a long story short I got 7 cats, with 2 more escaping as I tried to transfer them from the traps to the carriers - these have SIDE OPENING DOORS on the front... check the picture. I had to completed remove the door and then once wedged the trap against the absk opening., use the trap sliding door once the cat was in the carrier. Then I had to re-insert the door onto it's hinges BETWEEN THE FRONT THE CARRIER AND THE CLOSED TRAP! I didn't realize how easy I had it back home. Anyway 2 particularly big and feisty buggers squeezed between the carrier front and the trap as I was trying to put the door in place. I left the final 2 big cats in the traps rather than transfer and one of them was BIG BUGGER! If you look at tghe photo's you can see how run down the area is, without the support of people like the old lady these guys would starve... It's around 9.30pm and the cats have been dropped at an empty house, still in carriers/traps, and we went back at 9 to collect them and take them to the vets. All starts again tomorrow and will be taking some tuna and sardines with me :+}