Here are some pictures of our little feral kitties:
The brave one:
The timid one:
The momma kitty:
The brave one:
The timid one:
The momma kitty:
This is excellent advice. The two kittens should be pretty easy to adopt out (especially because they are just gorgeousOriginally Posted by LDG
What a sweet story!
I'd have to agree with you - momma's got to be a stray-gone-feral. We've worked with many multi-generational ferals, and there is no way any of them would have come into a kitchen. She must have belonged to a person at some point, poor baby.
This has always been a debate, because kittens are SO much easier to adopt out when they're 8 - 10 weeks old - but we always left them with momma until they were 12 weeks - that's the age she'd be done teaching them things and they'd be on their own. Then we'd trap her, get her spayed, and trap the kittens.
But we live in a very rural area, and there's not much danger lurking around for ferals or kittens.
Many people take in the kittens - to adopt them themselves or to foster them until they can be adopted and trap the mom. Seems to me like the best way to do this for you is to borrow a have-a-hart trap from a vet or shelter, and put food out in it at a very regular time (without the trap set). Get mom used to getting her food in there while still feeding the kittens in the kitchen. When you're ready to separate mom and kittens, set the trap to catch her to have her spayed.She may bolt after this. Sometimes our feral females would stick around - sometimes they didn't.
You've got a couple of real cuties on your hands! And they're very lucky to have found you.
Laurie
Originally Posted by AddieBee
Some of the feral experts here have suggested using clean and untreated potting soil- no fertilizer, etc. and mixing it in with the litter and gradually wean them off dirt.
There is also a kitten and cat attract product available online that some OPs have mentioned that might help.
They're still babies, too. They'll learn.