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Oh yeah, well, that one would require a human to operate. The
way I would do it, would be to run a string from the hole punched in
the top of the main front sliding door (it slides down in a track), over
something overhead (like a smooth tree branch, or rig up an eye screw over the
area if it's on a porch), then you'd have to watch until the cat you wanted was
inside, and manually drop the string to close the door. You can run any amount
of string, to get farther away if you need to, and you don't have to be anywhere
near the door to shut it this way. The side door would be closed, of course.
I've done this before, not with this particular cage (I made one similar home
made out of wood), but with a similar rigging. On this pre-made version, you may
need to add a bit of weight to the string just over the door or glue
something heavy to the front of the door to make it "slam" quickly, my door was
heavy, not sure about this one's weight. The cats seem to be "wise" about the
traditional metal wire traps, and avoid them after a while, but if you have the
time, and patience, sometimes something like this works better, plus it is more
weather proof, and has a solid top, so it would make a better feeding station
than a normal trap or wire-top carrier, because it would protect the food from
the weather.
The tomahawk company means this to be more of a cage or
carrier than a trap, but it could be rigged as a trap as well, especially if you
used it as a feeding station for a while first, to get them accustomed to going
into it and not being trapped for a while first.
Jenn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks
for that Jenn---I'd never heard of Tomahawk
I've a
question about the "trap" part of the first cage on the list--the "innovative
trap/carrier/recovery cage." I'm assuming the white circle is a
door--the door the cat is supposed to use so it can be
trapped?
To
actually trap the cat once it's inside requires the
trapper to get near enough to the carrier to close the round door, right?
Going by past experience my cats would be able to jump into reverse gear and
scoot outa there way before I was able to close the door. Obviously that can't
be the case since these traps must be successful, so I'm wondering what I'm
missing?! Kerry
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