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Hello,
I’m really hoping for some advice and help for what steps we should take—this is new to us and I’m sorry this is a little long. We have two indoor cats we adopted from a shelter last year. A few weeks ago, one of our indoor cats ran out the door when my husband went outside and we were unable to find her. We set traps hoping that we would catch her. A couple days later, we trapped a different cat and I saw it had an injured leg so we brought it to the humane society for help and to see if anyone was missing a cat or if they could try to get him adopted. After a couple weeks, the humane society said nobody claimed him and they feel he’s a wild cat and they neutered him and gave him a rabies shot and asked if we wanted to pick him up to release him back in the area where we caught him. They asked us to keep him in the carrier for a few days to get him use to the area again. This was really bothering us to let him go—we were worried about his safety but also for the wildlife we have around our area. We decided we wanted to try and socialize him and see if we can bring him inside. My husband bought two dog kennels and attached them together to make a little more room for him and we have the carrier inside the kennel—he mostly stays in the carrier but does come out to eat and use the litter box when we aren’t around. We have this kennel out in the garage, though.
We’re kind of lost on how to handle this and what to do. He’s really been in a cage about 3 weeks now—2 weeks at the humane society and one week here. I go out in the garage 4 times a day—twice to feed canned food (he also has dry food and water) and twice for cleanup and just to check on him. We probably should try and sit out there with him so he can hear and see us more? He seems to stay in the carrier when we are around, though.
At what point can a vet check him over to see if it’s safe for him to come in the house and how do I safely get him and our other two cats use to each other? How long can he stay in a cage? It really bothers us to have him out in the garage by himself and he just seems so lonely but yet I’m a little worried he’s too wild yet--I’m afraid to reach my hand in there. I’m hoping to see him come out to eat while we are actually out there.
I also purchased some herbal feral drops from Jackson Galaxy’s website that sounded good—not sure if anyone has tried that on here?
Any suggestions you can give us would really be appreciated. We’re feeling pretty lost and don’t want to do something wrong and screw things up. Oh, by the way, we did get our cat back a couple days later after trapping the feral cat.
Thanks for your help.
Diane
I’m really hoping for some advice and help for what steps we should take—this is new to us and I’m sorry this is a little long. We have two indoor cats we adopted from a shelter last year. A few weeks ago, one of our indoor cats ran out the door when my husband went outside and we were unable to find her. We set traps hoping that we would catch her. A couple days later, we trapped a different cat and I saw it had an injured leg so we brought it to the humane society for help and to see if anyone was missing a cat or if they could try to get him adopted. After a couple weeks, the humane society said nobody claimed him and they feel he’s a wild cat and they neutered him and gave him a rabies shot and asked if we wanted to pick him up to release him back in the area where we caught him. They asked us to keep him in the carrier for a few days to get him use to the area again. This was really bothering us to let him go—we were worried about his safety but also for the wildlife we have around our area. We decided we wanted to try and socialize him and see if we can bring him inside. My husband bought two dog kennels and attached them together to make a little more room for him and we have the carrier inside the kennel—he mostly stays in the carrier but does come out to eat and use the litter box when we aren’t around. We have this kennel out in the garage, though.
We’re kind of lost on how to handle this and what to do. He’s really been in a cage about 3 weeks now—2 weeks at the humane society and one week here. I go out in the garage 4 times a day—twice to feed canned food (he also has dry food and water) and twice for cleanup and just to check on him. We probably should try and sit out there with him so he can hear and see us more? He seems to stay in the carrier when we are around, though.
At what point can a vet check him over to see if it’s safe for him to come in the house and how do I safely get him and our other two cats use to each other? How long can he stay in a cage? It really bothers us to have him out in the garage by himself and he just seems so lonely but yet I’m a little worried he’s too wild yet--I’m afraid to reach my hand in there. I’m hoping to see him come out to eat while we are actually out there.
I also purchased some herbal feral drops from Jackson Galaxy’s website that sounded good—not sure if anyone has tried that on here?
Any suggestions you can give us would really be appreciated. We’re feeling pretty lost and don’t want to do something wrong and screw things up. Oh, by the way, we did get our cat back a couple days later after trapping the feral cat.
Thanks for your help.
Diane