A cat carrier has more uses than simply transporting cats. With some slight adjustment they actually make wonderful cages for catching recalcitrant little kittens who don’t want to be caught!
Some time ago we discovered a mummy cat who had been abandoned by her owner along with her kittens. The owner had moved house and simply left the mum and her babies behind. Can you imagine one day having a home, somewhere to live and presumably the owner fed them some sort of food. The next day new people moving in and not wanting you there. Now it’s not only you that has to be cared for but you have four babies to feed and as well now find somewhere else to live. It’s not just a matter of moving next door either as guess what, they don’t want you either!
Fortunately in this case we were alerted to this all too common problem of stray cats caused by humans. When we went to fetch the mum cat and kittens we found the kittens had become unsocialised towards people and we couldn’t get near them. Funnily enough you don’t realize how quickly little kittens can run. They can run much faster than humans in fact when it comes to catching them.
Therefore we had to devise a way of catching the kittens. A normal trap was too big for them. Their small weight would not be able to trigger the footstep to close the door on them. Mum was fine and only too glad to find someone to help them. Therefore with some lateral thinking we simply removed a few bars from the door of the cat carrier. The opening was small enough for mum’s babies to get into their mum but not big enough for mum to get out. Naturally once we put mum inside the cat carrier and closed the door the kittens were now outside. Mum cat immediately called her babies to her and in they came, scrambling through the opening in the door. Quickly we covered over the small opening once all the babies were inside and we had them all! The little family were then rehomed to more evolved humans!
So now we had a cat carrier with a small opening cut into the door. This did not render it useless because we basically just used it for larger cats for future needs. Cat carriers are costly so you don’t wish to waste them just because there is a small opening cut into it. In fact we eventually wired the door up again and it was like brand new. So you see cat carriers are so important for transporting cats but they do have other very important uses.
