For the love of cats everywhere, please ear tip your cats!!! Even if they're pets that never go outside, or strays that "only stay in the yard"... All it takes is one instance of a cat getting out and into someone's trap for its entire world to change.
The cat that wondered into my trap on Sunday was definitely owned by someone at some point... A fact not given away just by the fact that it would purr and lick me every time I'd feed it, but because it had previously been sterilized. And sterilized recently enough that it hadn't entirely healed yet. This is why I can't stress ear tips enough.... This cat unnecessarily was given anesthesia because there was no ear tip, something we don't like to subject cats to if they don't need it!!
While she was under she did get the much needed ear tip though, along with some antibiotics and rabies vaccine. The image above is of the post ear tip, with the hemostat still on and some quick-stop to help the healing (from start to finish including "recovery" it takes about 10 minutes). At least she won't have to go through this again.
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