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Hello everybody, I'm here to ask for some advice on a matter I'm not really sure how to act.
To give some context: my family is currently caring for a small cat colony made of a mother cat (let's call her Kimmy) and her 2 adult daughters. We managed to spay all of them, so we don't have problems with kittens anymore. Since there are only these 3 cats, they are pretty much used to us and they stay around our house a lot, so I think they can be considered semi-feral.
About Kimmy: talking with some neighbors, we managed to find out that she was domestic once and later became feral because she was abandoned and didn't have contact with humans anymore.
We are quite worried about Kimmy because we noticed that she lost her hearing (probably because of ear mites) and is super easily scared of everything because of that. She can't even eat peacefully because every time something like the wind or a fly touches her she runs away and apart from that we are worried if she crosses the street. Therefore we were thinking about catching her and keeping her inside the house. She isn't a very active cat since she is just chilling around most of the time and she was probably domestic years ago, so we think that she could get used to an indoor life.
Now I am asking you for an opinion on how to act and if I were to catch her, how should I behave considering the fact that she is deaf and easily scared. I have some experience in socializing kittens but I don't know what to do with a deaf adult cat.
I would be very thankful if someone could help me.
To give some context: my family is currently caring for a small cat colony made of a mother cat (let's call her Kimmy) and her 2 adult daughters. We managed to spay all of them, so we don't have problems with kittens anymore. Since there are only these 3 cats, they are pretty much used to us and they stay around our house a lot, so I think they can be considered semi-feral.
About Kimmy: talking with some neighbors, we managed to find out that she was domestic once and later became feral because she was abandoned and didn't have contact with humans anymore.
We are quite worried about Kimmy because we noticed that she lost her hearing (probably because of ear mites) and is super easily scared of everything because of that. She can't even eat peacefully because every time something like the wind or a fly touches her she runs away and apart from that we are worried if she crosses the street. Therefore we were thinking about catching her and keeping her inside the house. She isn't a very active cat since she is just chilling around most of the time and she was probably domestic years ago, so we think that she could get used to an indoor life.
Now I am asking you for an opinion on how to act and if I were to catch her, how should I behave considering the fact that she is deaf and easily scared. I have some experience in socializing kittens but I don't know what to do with a deaf adult cat.
I would be very thankful if someone could help me.
