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I have one more question for everyone. The kittens (and Mom) seem to be doing super well in every regard, but one: they seem to have developed a lasting collective case of diarrhea. For the last two or three days every deposit that I find in the litter seems to be soft and gooey. In every...

Here is a quick but positive update. The kittens and Mom seemed to have completely rebuilt the maternal bond, I suspect partially supported by her breaking them out and leading them all over town a few days ago. Since they have been back I have notice that the relationship seemed to look more...

He looks like he would break out of the trap in a rage and come after me! Interestingly, I watched him walk by a few times, including last night when I was trying to trap the final kitten and had food all over the trap room. He will never go in there as far as I can tell. Which is fine because...

I don't plan to ever let them play outside again before getting neutered. The great escape was not planned and I now check every door very carefully before I free then inside the house and am very careful when I leave, but there is always a risk. Perhaps the worst thing that could happen would...

Great article. I wish I had seen this before I tried to reintroduce a post surgery mother to her four kittens (see link below) Rescuing Feral Kitten In Bangkok I was so happy to reunite them that I just crudely dumped Mom back in the room with the kittens and it was a disaster. At first they...

Oops. Posted that earlier. Here are two more cat photos and a brief explanation: In the post above, the first and third photos are of the mother and cat gang post escape. The first one iOS from when she led them back around to show them the porch and where they had been held. The second, fifth...

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Here is one more big update and a fairly important question. Two nights ago, just as I was going to bed, the mother cat was sitting outside and the kittens were all at the door looking at her and they were calling back and forth. So, I let her in and went to sleep. When I woke up in the...

Great. Thanks. I do think that is exactly what they will do. They seem inseparable!

Thanks. That is very helpful. I have never had cats, so don't have much perspective. I may need to add litter boxes. I actually have three active litter boxes in total, but leave one downstairs in a fixed place as the Mom comes and goes. I assume that since she is outside half the time she is...

I will also start following PAWS. My plan is to always feed them. I do want to keep them as semi-pets and so will make sure they get regular meals and always have dry food and water. Their home base will be the porch where they stayed before I trapped them (now 3 weeks ago today!) There are...

Thanks. I definitely won't let them out at all until they are neutered. I will probably plan to keep them as mostly indoor cats and have them roam around the house, but I do expect that they will be able to escape occasionally. One issue, although a luxury one, is that I am amazed by how much...

Thank you all for your continuing concern and apologies for my poor reporting. Happily in this case no news is good news, at least mostly. The kittens are all doing great and seem to be gradually getting used to me and other people. I can pet one regularly and have touched one or two others a...

Thanks again for all of the great insights. I had to do a quick two day work trip to the Philippines and my helpful cat-loving neighbor has been taking care of the kittens. She went in and played with them a few times before I left as well. She is getting great results and sent me the attached...

I haven't made any updates as everything seems to be moving smoothly, if slowly. The kittens seem very content and a bit less skittish, although I can't really get within a meter of them. A neighbor has started going in every once is a while to try to pay with them and got some reaction to a...

Here are some more photos: 1-3 are picture of the kittens in their hiding place behind the curtain. The ones that are up high had to run across the room, scramble up on the aircon, and climb the mosquito net to get up there. Climbing back down the net is harder, especially when the panic...

So, Mom has been back in the hospital for 24 hours and the kittens are back to being their irrepressible selves. They seem at times to be getting slightly more comfortable with me, but aren't really showing any indications of warming up to me. I sat in the room with my back turned to them last...

They always had the windows in back open, which is morning sun. The front gets the afternoon sun directly and can be brutally hot, although this seems to be the start of the cool season (which is only cool compared to the hot season!) Now that I have forced them out of that hole, they have...

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Here is a picture of the front windows. Before, the curtains were down and I had taped them shut, although at the time mostly to prevent escape. When the Mom was in there they managed to dig open a hole and they would crawl in and either sit at the bottom or climb up to the top ledge. They are...