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trap are attached. The transfer door has spring clips on the side which can be attached tothe trap or transfer cage you’re moving the cat into, helping prevent an escape. It can beset up and broken down in less than a couple of minutes. Bottom line - if you’re going tobe doing TNR on a regular basis, you’re going to want to have this trap.Also, check out Tomahawk’s remote control attachment for the drop trap (code: RC-100). It replaces pulling a string for dropping the trap and has a few advantages over thestring. There’s no risk of the stringgetting caught up and stuck on anyobject or of the trapper not pullinghard or fast enough. Nor will cats bedistracted by any movement of thestring. Its greatest advantage is theability it gives the trapper to watchfrom a location where it would bedifficult or impossible to trail a string,such as the upper floor of a housewhen the drop trap is set up in thebackyard. Trap dividersTru-Catch Trap Isolator for Large Raccoon Trap by Tru-CatchModel TD-2Tru-Catch, www.trucatchtraps.com, 1-800-247-6132: also check: Heart ofthe Earth Animal Equipment, www.animal-traps.com; 1-800-526-1644TNR Trap Divider by TomahawkModel TD12NCTomahawk Live Trap, www.livetrap.com; 800-272-8727One of the most useful pieces of equipment for safelyworking with feral cats is a trap divider, also called a trapisolator. This pitchfork-looking tool slides through thebars of the trap, either from above or through the side, anddivides the trap in two. While caring for a cat confined ina trap, it allows you to section the cat off on one end whileyou open the door on the other to feed and clean (seeChapter 11.) Other uses include separating two catswho’ve been caught in the same trap, pinning a cat to oneend of the trap before surgery so an anesthetic injection canbe administered, lessening the space a frantic cat can move about in after being capturedand during transport, and directing a cat’s movement during a transfer out of the trap.Many manufacturers of traps also make trap dividers. To our knowledge, only theones made by Tru-Catch (Figure 8-5) and Tomahawk Live Trap (Figure 8-6) are strongenough for the uses described in this handbook. All the other brands we’ve tried are62