Feral Cat Interacting with Feather

Further to identify the issue of the feral cat interacting wtih the feather sound lure (which has a small motor running in conjunction with the sound lure).

While this has been set up to base itself on attracting possums to the area with a small four watt speaker operating a variety of possum noises.   

Instead what has happened is that a feral cat has been dominating the deployment site for several weeks.   

This cat has been regularly appearing at the sound lure site.   Recently the feather that is working with the lure was placed so it was outside the netting for the rat box.

The result was that we had four intercations during a single evening between the cat and the trap.   The cat ignored the DOC200 containing rabbit meat and instead focussed its attention on the sound lure, and motor.

The cat also went to the extent of removing the feather from the inside of the trap as shown in the photograph.   It visited the site repeatedly during the night, four times in total and was photographed in excess of thirty times.

We have had expressed interest in the past from individuals who are focussed on looking at controlling feral cats and as a result we believe that this current set up would show considerable potential.