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...ever try to catch a feral cat in a cage twice?
I didn't try to but I managed to do it several times.
3 kittens showed up on our deck several years ago. They were obviously starting to go a little feral and were looking neglected and hungry. We borrowed a cage trap from a friend who specialized in catching are re-socializing feral cats and proceeded to start bringing them in.
We got two easily but one, a grey tabby, was being particularly evasive. A few hours later, I glanced out at the cage and spotted grey tabby stripes, thinking we'd gotten the third, I went out to bring in the cage. I hadn't gotten two steps out of the door when I heard the most ferocious growl. I stopped short and realized that I hadn't caught a kitten, but a fifteen pound feral male. He was not happy to see me. I went back in to get some heavy gloves and an overcoat before popping the cage open. Fortunately, he was intent on nothing more than putting distance between the two of us. I reset the trap, moved it closer to the edge of the deck and went back inside for the night.
When I got up the next morning, we discovered another feral cat, a black and white longhair. Upon seeing us, it (wasn't able to determine the sex) began to panic and began to desperately look for a way out of the cage by circling madly. It was obvious that the cat was hurting itself so I risked popping open the cage without any protective gear. The way that cat bounded out of the cage and our yard got us laughing pretty good. It'd leap about 8-9 feet horizontally, hit the ground and do it again.
We reset the trap only to catch the male tabby again.
The next night we caught the longhair again. We gave up on getting the third. One of the captured kittens turned out to be a Maine Coon, all black. My sister-in-law has him now while we kept the little short hair (that's about as descriptive as I can get with that one). I hope that little tabby managed to find a safe home somewhere.