Figuring out how to round up my feral [View all]

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This comfortable looking fellow came in through the cat door a couple of years ago and has been living here ever since. He’s completely feral—I’m permitted to look at him from a distance, but he has a strict no-touch policy. Someone had him neutered and ear tipped at one time and he may actually have another home somewhere, although I’ve never found out where. But he knows we’re always good for a meal and a warm bed, so he’s settled in here for the winter. But now he has some kind of scabby-looking wound on his tipped ear and it’s probably best he see a vet, both for the ear and because he should have shots, even assuming he was vaccinated when he was neutered. I just can’t figure out how to do it. Last year when he was limping, I trapped him for a trip to the emergency vet—a traumatic experience all around and it took months for him to trust me at all. I’m really at a loss of what to do.