11 cats and kittens trapped last night in Hayward. All time record. Still need to get mama cat and 1-2 more cats/kittens. Everyone will be relocated or fostered/adopted. The area isn't safe for cats - or people. A neighbor has been feeding these guys and contacted me earlier this week for help. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes offering help. I was glad to have him with Ildiko and me last night when we were trapping!

It's raining kittens. Thank goodness no dogs.

5 kittens in the past 2 weeks literally plucked from the bay trail in South SF. Moms are being spayed, vaccinated and returned. Thanks to Nine Lives, kittens are being wet nursed by domesticated, lactating moms and will eventually be adopted once old enough. 

I feel really gratefully that I haven't had to bottle feed so far. Since I start trapping around 5:30 a.m., it would be even tougher feeding kittens every 2 hours. Cheers to all the humans bottle feeding feral fur balls! It takes a village...

Hi, I'm Tom. I was loaded with testosterone and looking for love - and found Trudi. I'm 8 years old and am much better now that SF SPCA fixed me up - literally. I'm neutered, got some Revolution for my lice and fleas, vaccinated, my abscess on my ear  and my right eye cleaned-up. Look-out ladies, I'm back; although not in quite the same capacity.

Note from Trudi - this Casanova was returned to the bay trail this a.m. Unfortunately, no new cats trapped today at this location.

10+ years trapping and I'm still learning and reminded that each cat and trapping location is unique. I have lined traps with newspaper, old place mats and towels for years to encourage cats to walk their sweet little paws into a trap.

• For the 1st time, I had a cat escape a trap because of a towel in a trap that she was able to yank hard enough to open the trap door and escape.
• The cats where I'm trapping now prefer nothing on the trap floor. Since I've gone 'down to the wire' mesh, I'm trapping cats faster. Go figure?!

Four cats traps so far this week. Woohoo!

I love cat food!

These guys come when I call "Here kitty, kitty." They're total cat food chow 'hounds' - I mean ducks ;-) (Trapping can be pretty serious so I appreciate comic relief where I can find it!)

I trapped another young cat this a.m. in SSF along the Bay Trail. So far no small kittens, but I still have quite a few 4-6 month old cats left to TNR. With all the rain we've been having, I can no longer hold-off trapping until it's clear. Oh well, the cats don't seem to mind! I'm using an old bath rug to put on top of the trap to keep the kitties dry after they've been trapped.

It was a 'twofer' in the trap on Monday. Bert, shown here, was in the trap with his brother Bernie. Bernie had been previously TNRed last week so I'm not sure who led who into the trap but Fancy Feast Seafood canned food once again worked it's magic. Also trapped a very large male tom cat. Obviously a female in the area bringing all these boys around.

It looks like I still have 10-15 more cats at this location to TNR. 13 done so far! Thank you San Mateo County feral cat voucher program. There's no way I could pay for all these spay/neuters. (I just paid my license fees for my cats; animal license fees help fund the voucher program.)

Hurray! Two more cats trapped at SSF location. Now just 20 or so more to go :-) Seriously.

When I dropped them off at 9Lives this morning for spay/neuter, I got a new photo of Bean and Jeremy. They're enjoying their new home. Dr. Thomas thinks they are siblings and I did trap them both at the same location. Happy to see them reunited and in a home together. They like to snuggle cheek-to-cheek :-)