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So the situation is really bad. This cat that roams around the locality, hopping from house to house, died due to some unknown reason in our garden, and then we found a baby kitten in our backyard, behind some old furniture. There's a lot of stuff there and so the kitten has many spots to hide. My mother says it is probably around 10 days old. I have been keeping cups of milk and water since yesterday, but it rarely seems to touch it, although I did see it licking through both the cups this morning. It often gets out of the furniture, finds a safe space behind some old bicycles, and cries. The milk I kept this evening (only a few teaspoons) seems to have been finished, so I kept some more but it's still there. I'm guessing the kitten did drink it, and that it didn't look empty because it dried off at the average day temperature of 45 C here (I live in India). We tried to catch the kitten several times when it was out, so that we can bring it in and feed it properly, but it is very scared of us and runs right back into the furniture when any human comes close to it, and yeah, it runs faster than me. It's about 5 am now, and it still seems to be crying periodically. Last evening, a big Garfield type cat with a really deep voice walked through the neighbour's boundary wall (which it does often but without making that voice), and the kitten got really excited about it and ran out of the furniture, crying out really loud, running to see the Garfield cat. I got scared and thought that maybe that cat came there to kill the kitten, so I rushed to the place, and after seeing me there, the cat slowly walked away from the boundary to another house and it hasn't came back yet since then. We live in a small town with no animal doctor near us. Please tell me about the things I can possibly do to make things better for the kitten. I'm guessing trying to capture it is a total waste of time. I can't help but keep going to check if the kitten is still awake, crying, every few minutes. This has increased to the extent that I'm getting hallucinations about hearing its cries even when it isn't crying. Is there something apart from milk that the kitten might be interested in? Is there someway to convince the cat to come near us so that we can take care of it better? Any advices will be very helpful. Many thanks.