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Hello everyone, today 4 kittens showed up in my garage and I'm not exactly sure how I should handle it. I'm 99% sure the mom is a stray cat that showed up around my house this winter. I'm not sure if it is a scared cat that someone dumped off or a feral cat since it wont let anyone get close to it. Any way today when we went in the garage there was a small kitten (estimated to be around 7" long) eating/drinking where we feed the assumed mother cat. After watching for a few minutes 3 more showed up and were all running around playing and eating a little bit of the dry cat food. I would like to catch the kittens and get them socialized a bit so they can be adopted and obviously trap the mother and get her spayed, however I have a couple of questions.
1. Do you think the kittens are old enough to be taken away from their mother? I was assuming so since they were snacking on the dry food but I just wanted to make sure. I did look at a kitten growth chart to try to figure it out but it couldn't since I cant get very close to the kittens.
2. I do have an empty room in the house that they, and their mother could go into while I try to socialize them. My question is I do have 1 cat now which I don't want to catch any possible diseases from the new cat/kittens while they would be inside. Is there any risk bringing them inside if they will be kept in a separate room and not come in contact with my current cat? I don't have the funds to pay to have a checkup and shots done on all 5 of the cats so I just want to make sure before bringing them inside.
Thanks in advance for any help.
1. Do you think the kittens are old enough to be taken away from their mother? I was assuming so since they were snacking on the dry food but I just wanted to make sure. I did look at a kitten growth chart to try to figure it out but it couldn't since I cant get very close to the kittens.
2. I do have an empty room in the house that they, and their mother could go into while I try to socialize them. My question is I do have 1 cat now which I don't want to catch any possible diseases from the new cat/kittens while they would be inside. Is there any risk bringing them inside if they will be kept in a separate room and not come in contact with my current cat? I don't have the funds to pay to have a checkup and shots done on all 5 of the cats so I just want to make sure before bringing them inside.
Thanks in advance for any help.