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So this feral female I've been feeding for a couple of years now just had a litter of 4 on my back porch last night (I've been unable to trap her - this is her 4th litter since she's been hanging around my place).
With all the other litters, she had them elsewhere and they would show up on my back porch at about 1 month of age, so this is my first experience with feral newborns.
I placed a cardboard box sideways with a towel in it to shield her and them from passers by, that she could put the babies in if she wanted (she didn't). It just seemed to confuse her, so I took it away after about an hour.
A couple of hours have passed, and it seems like she's kind of left the kittens alone. She's hanging around nearby, and she's back and forth on the back patio, but she's not currently feeding them or grooming them. I'm thinking, "shouldn't she just be with them? Why isn't she with them?" Is this normal?
Should I be worried that she's abandoned them? What should I do? If she has abandoned them, that would be something she's never done with her previous litters (at least the last 3 of them). At what point should I start to worry?
With all the other litters, she had them elsewhere and they would show up on my back porch at about 1 month of age, so this is my first experience with feral newborns.
I placed a cardboard box sideways with a towel in it to shield her and them from passers by, that she could put the babies in if she wanted (she didn't). It just seemed to confuse her, so I took it away after about an hour.
A couple of hours have passed, and it seems like she's kind of left the kittens alone. She's hanging around nearby, and she's back and forth on the back patio, but she's not currently feeding them or grooming them. I'm thinking, "shouldn't she just be with them? Why isn't she with them?" Is this normal?
Should I be worried that she's abandoned them? What should I do? If she has abandoned them, that would be something she's never done with her previous litters (at least the last 3 of them). At what point should I start to worry?