The good news after 4 solid months of feeding and several trap fails I was able to close the kitchen door before my stray escaped. Yeah!
Right now though I feel bad because s/he’s terrified. S/he talks to me all the time, but now s/he’s just meow-moaning. Has quieted down some. It’s little cat tummy was heaving it was so scared. I have it shut in my kitchen where this cat gets fed twice a day, so the room is not unfamiliar. I put a playpen in there with a bed, hopefully to provide a secure space. Right now it’s got it’s self stuffed in a corner on one of the counters. There’s really no place to hide in my kitchen. I put litter/water/food in there. Is that all I can do for now? I checked my garage for kittens. It’s early spring here and plus the way it acts (e.g., I see it out playing in the yard pretty carefree since it warmed up the last few days so I’m assuming a mother cat wouldn’t act that way.).
My plan is to let it calm down and then take it in for vetting. It’ll have to stay separated from my other cats for now. I hope that doesn’t take to long, but the reality is I haven’t been able to pet it once. I believe the cat is about 1 year old since it looked like a teenager cat the first time I saw it in the yard last summer.
Is there anything else I should worry about? The last stray I trapped had a really sweet disposition, so it morphed into a house cat again within a day or two.
Right now though I feel bad because s/he’s terrified. S/he talks to me all the time, but now s/he’s just meow-moaning. Has quieted down some. It’s little cat tummy was heaving it was so scared. I have it shut in my kitchen where this cat gets fed twice a day, so the room is not unfamiliar. I put a playpen in there with a bed, hopefully to provide a secure space. Right now it’s got it’s self stuffed in a corner on one of the counters. There’s really no place to hide in my kitchen. I put litter/water/food in there. Is that all I can do for now? I checked my garage for kittens. It’s early spring here and plus the way it acts (e.g., I see it out playing in the yard pretty carefree since it warmed up the last few days so I’m assuming a mother cat wouldn’t act that way.).
My plan is to let it calm down and then take it in for vetting. It’ll have to stay separated from my other cats for now. I hope that doesn’t take to long, but the reality is I haven’t been able to pet it once. I believe the cat is about 1 year old since it looked like a teenager cat the first time I saw it in the yard last summer.
Is there anything else I should worry about? The last stray I trapped had a really sweet disposition, so it morphed into a house cat again within a day or two.