Hello
Recently a brown kitten has started to roam around our house, probably because of our own cats. I dont live in space with feral colonies, most cats are at least semi socialized.
When I noticed this cat I started to offer it wet food and it gulped it down (so either hungry or weaned off) and it happily accepted and even came pretty close to me. However when I tried to catch it (i was worried it was injured) it hissed scratched and bit me. Probably was never touched a human before. It is pretty connected to a VERY friendly stray we semiadopted (we feed him, vacced him and neutered him and hes very friendly to us). Our indoor cats hiss at it though.
From my brief research it seems that trying to socialize kittens beyond 4 months is not advised. I am not sure how to proceed because mom says its 3 month-ish but i am unsure. It is worth saying that it keeps calling out to its mom and came to us pretty starved. Really unsure on what to do here?
Also, another similarly aged cat turned up today. Right now we let them in our outside building which we call summer kitchen. Theres a lot of hiding spaces and food. Mom managed to play with the fishing pole with one of them, but it kept the distance from her. When mayor was around (unrelated, but there is roaming stray dog so mom and him are trying to find it and get it to safer place) he mentioned someone reported abandoned kittens at graveyard but when he checked, they werent there. I am not sure what to make of it, because that would imply, they had human owners. I just am unsure what to do.
Recently a brown kitten has started to roam around our house, probably because of our own cats. I dont live in space with feral colonies, most cats are at least semi socialized.
When I noticed this cat I started to offer it wet food and it gulped it down (so either hungry or weaned off) and it happily accepted and even came pretty close to me. However when I tried to catch it (i was worried it was injured) it hissed scratched and bit me. Probably was never touched a human before. It is pretty connected to a VERY friendly stray we semiadopted (we feed him, vacced him and neutered him and hes very friendly to us). Our indoor cats hiss at it though.
From my brief research it seems that trying to socialize kittens beyond 4 months is not advised. I am not sure how to proceed because mom says its 3 month-ish but i am unsure. It is worth saying that it keeps calling out to its mom and came to us pretty starved. Really unsure on what to do here?
Also, another similarly aged cat turned up today. Right now we let them in our outside building which we call summer kitchen. Theres a lot of hiding spaces and food. Mom managed to play with the fishing pole with one of them, but it kept the distance from her. When mayor was around (unrelated, but there is roaming stray dog so mom and him are trying to find it and get it to safer place) he mentioned someone reported abandoned kittens at graveyard but when he checked, they werent there. I am not sure what to make of it, because that would imply, they had human owners. I just am unsure what to do.
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