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I suggest you rent or borrow a raccoon-size live trap and catch her. It will speed things up a great deal, and she'll be safe, rather than having to deal with the perils outdoors while you attempt to tame her.

Megan

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I missed the original posting so I'm shooting in the dark a bit. Forgive me if I'm missing some critical point.

It seems to me that a trap is the only way to quickly and safely bring the cat to safety. Doing that by bike is not possible, but surely teaming up with someone who drives would work very well.

I can't help wondering how rescuing a cat is likely under any circumstances with a bike as th only means of transport.

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|>> [Megan:]

|>> I suggest you rent or borrow a raccoon-size live trap and catch her.

|> Unfortunately that won't work. The site is off in the woods, not near |> anything and certainly not near me.

I saw your post in r.p.c.anecdotes and there you said that there is a car park 100-200 yards away. (This was almost certainly how the cat got dumped off in that vicinity rather than elsewhere!) So, the area can be reached, albeit inconveniently, by car.

|> So I have no car nearby, no resource to call on,

No friends to help out? Rent a car for a day?

|> no way to rescue it until I can get it to approach me or allow me to |> approach it out of need.

And then what, though? Not every cat will allow someone to pick it up and bung it into a box or whatever. And even if that, I don't see how just a bike helps moving a box with a cat.

It seems to me that a trap is the only way to quickly and safely bring the cat to safety.

Yes, it could take far too long to make any other method feasible. Just getting the cat on a regular feeding schedule is the critical part (so that it will be around when you go in with a trap.)

Doing that by bike is not possible, but surely teaming up with someone who drives would work very well.

I think it would need two people anyway. Once the cat is trapped, it could be transfered into a regular carrier for easier transport. This would still mean two people given the logistics involved (car, distance, trap and carrier.)

But it's doable, IMHO.