Is our colony larger than estimated?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I’ve been thinking about the cats trapped earlier this month, and I’m a little concerned. 3 of the 4 cats trapped were unknown — I hadn’t seen any of them before finding them in the trap. This could just be a coincidence, or it could mean that the colony is much larger than I had estimated.
I identified approximately 40 adults over this past winter, and I had hoped that was the extent of the colony. The fact that I managed to trap 3 totally unknown adult cats seems to indicate that I was indulging in a little bit of wishful thinking. Here’s hoping that my original estimates were correct, and the “newbies” were just the few that I missed last winter.
