An old boyfriend of mine rigged up something like this to catch a feral at his office and it worked. A carrier and string. He said it was like 'fishing'......... Except he wasn't a fisherman.
Jenn sounds like quite the engineer! :)
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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.
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Thanks for that Jenn---I'd never heard of TomahawkI'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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