Hi all. Found this site researching seizures in cats. I'll post my story which started last Friday in the appropriate thread.
We've always had a cat and dogs as a family. About 5 years ago we started seeing a few feral cats in our neighborhood. Then kittens. My wife really pressured me into rescuing two kittens that had come around to eat our outdoor scraps. So I started trying to get close to them but they were very skittish and weren't having it. We bought a trap and within two nights had a cute male and female quarantined in a basement bathroom. These little kitties were feral but we worked with them and after getting the green light from the vet, let them out of the bathroom to explore the house. We had a senior male husky at the time who couldn't care less about the new additions.
After we noticed more kitties we knew we had to do something about it. So I made a few calls and got hooked up with a low cost t&r clinic. So far we have t&r'd close to 30 cats. 8 have taken permanent residence in our detached garage and are basically domesticated ferals. We've found homes for several as well. And we now have 7 indoor cats due to a abandoned set of kitties at a very young age we had to bottle feed and were unable to find a home for.
Fortunately, we think we have trapped all females in the neighborhood to stop the multiplication.
We've always had a cat and dogs as a family. About 5 years ago we started seeing a few feral cats in our neighborhood. Then kittens. My wife really pressured me into rescuing two kittens that had come around to eat our outdoor scraps. So I started trying to get close to them but they were very skittish and weren't having it. We bought a trap and within two nights had a cute male and female quarantined in a basement bathroom. These little kitties were feral but we worked with them and after getting the green light from the vet, let them out of the bathroom to explore the house. We had a senior male husky at the time who couldn't care less about the new additions.
After we noticed more kitties we knew we had to do something about it. So I made a few calls and got hooked up with a low cost t&r clinic. So far we have t&r'd close to 30 cats. 8 have taken permanent residence in our detached garage and are basically domesticated ferals. We've found homes for several as well. And we now have 7 indoor cats due to a abandoned set of kitties at a very young age we had to bottle feed and were unable to find a home for.
Fortunately, we think we have trapped all females in the neighborhood to stop the multiplication.