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Good news, the mother cat and kittens I have been feeding/attempting to trap have returned. I now have three of the kittens and need to catch the remaining three and the mother.
I just have a question for those experienced with TNR and catching kittens: If you have been monitoring a mother and kittens for over a week and have seen the maximum of six kittens, do you presume that is all she has? I read on a TNR site that initially all of the kittens won't all come at once to a feeding location, but then after a couple days they will all go together.
The mother cat is friendly with me, I plan to get her used to living in a home with people and have her spayed/vaccinated so she can be adopted. For a bit she was splitting up the litter: three of her kittens were sleeping in the hood of my car and she didn't bring the other kittens to my house for a couple nights, keeping them in another location.
I just want to make sure before I trap her that it's safe to presume she only has the six kittens. Five of them are gray tabbies--I caught the one black kitten-- so I can't distinguish one from another, I just have to go by how many I've seen altogether.
Thanks for any advice anyone can give me~
Good news, the mother cat and kittens I have been feeding/attempting to trap have returned. I now have three of the kittens and need to catch the remaining three and the mother.
I just have a question for those experienced with TNR and catching kittens: If you have been monitoring a mother and kittens for over a week and have seen the maximum of six kittens, do you presume that is all she has? I read on a TNR site that initially all of the kittens won't all come at once to a feeding location, but then after a couple days they will all go together.
The mother cat is friendly with me, I plan to get her used to living in a home with people and have her spayed/vaccinated so she can be adopted. For a bit she was splitting up the litter: three of her kittens were sleeping in the hood of my car and she didn't bring the other kittens to my house for a couple nights, keeping them in another location.
I just want to make sure before I trap her that it's safe to presume she only has the six kittens. Five of them are gray tabbies--I caught the one black kitten-- so I can't distinguish one from another, I just have to go by how many I've seen altogether.
Thanks for any advice anyone can give me~