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Hi everybody!
Sorry for the delay with the updates, this year has been very overwhelming, with not knowing if we were losing our jobs (big changes in the company with them firing up the top 2), to then being promoted (I was Nº3) and having so much more to do that I have no time to breath.
A couple of weeks ago I helped a lady to trap a mama she took to a no-kill shelter. She spoke highly about them and we were starting at that same time we were starting to struggle with the ferals, so I contacted them and spoke about Kato and the kittens.
Last updates: basically nothing changed. There has been no advance, they keep coming every single day to our living room and spend time with one of our cats, but from time to time she gets stressed (which is a problem because she tends to scratch, is not losing hair and her cancer might come back if she hurts her skin). There's still hissing but no attacks. Dos tends to stay in their hallway and he doesn't come that much.
The big issue began a couple of weeks ago when Dos (the only boy - unneutered) started spraying. Like e-ve-ry-whe-re.
At first we thought it was the litter box, we cleaned, we made extra sure to keep it clean and nothing... We cleaned the floors and nothing... we ended up buying a UV light to see what was going on.
I clean their hall e-ve-ry single day in the morning and the afternoon with water and vinegar. That helped the first couple of days. But now it feels the smell is not going away ever. I removed all the rope from their tree and all the fabric in the room. They all get very stressed when I go to clean, so I normally leave everything open and the girls go away, but Does stays in his house and gets into panic mode, but it's impossible not to clean... even when I am cleaning twice a day the smell is too strong so we have to keep their door closed most of the time.
Another thing that's been happening is the boy yelling at night... I feel Kato is starting to be annoyed by him because she's been fighting him. One night he was yelling so I turned on the camera and I saw he was yelling because Kato wouldn't let him go into their little house (never a problem before).
We are at the end of our rope. We cannot keep them inside when this is getting worse and his constant yelling is affecting already our neighbords (by now he yells every night, as it's getting colder the windows are mostly closed thank God).
Luckily the shelter accepted and offered to take them all in. After much thought we decided all 3 of them will go, as they can be socialized and get a better chance of getting a real home for themselves. That's something we haven't been able to provide to them.
We know Kato and Uno are easy to catch, we just guide them and they will go into any cage. Actually they were both inside the cage before I finished setting it up... But Dos is the issue as he is not food driven as the girls.
We stopped feeding them yesterday morning, and today we set up the trap with food for him. He was in panic from second one when Uno and Kato left the hallway. We tried to encourage him to get down from the tree and he began to get super aggressive.
When we removed his little house (he was hiding the entire time), it got worse.
The shelter people said we will have to trap him as if he was outside, so start feeding all of them from now on inside the trap. And not to bring the girls without him as he'd get worse and more stressed if he is left alone.
Is there any advice you can give us on how to catch him?
When we tried to fix him we tried to do it without traumatizing him and the reason why we haven't fixed him yet is because we haven't found a way to do it, and with all the job related issues and stress we had we couldn't simply keep feeding them inside the trap and keep trying nonstop... he is so freaking stubborn he will die of starvation before going into the trap to eat... Today when trying to trap him it got so bad that I was almost willing to open the door for him to leave as living conditions right now are becoming unbearable...
One change that did happen that might affecting him: there's a feral mom outside with 4 kittens.
We spot them 3 weeks ago... but the mom has them away from here so we only saw them a couple of more times.
I did bump into mom one day, she was laying on the garbage, so I ran back home and I brought food for her.
It seems his behaviour changed since those cats are around, but I have doubts as they are not outside that often... so I am not sure if he's becoming territorial.
The shelter seems to have experience with strays and ferals, socializing and then giving them for adoption to families they careful screen... at this point I have absolutely no doubts of my decision to give them to the shelter, I just need to find a way to bring them all to them.
Any advice??? Thank you in advance!
Dos in his beloved little house...
Uno playing with a box
Super Fat Kato.
Sorry for the delay with the updates, this year has been very overwhelming, with not knowing if we were losing our jobs (big changes in the company with them firing up the top 2), to then being promoted (I was Nº3) and having so much more to do that I have no time to breath.
A couple of weeks ago I helped a lady to trap a mama she took to a no-kill shelter. She spoke highly about them and we were starting at that same time we were starting to struggle with the ferals, so I contacted them and spoke about Kato and the kittens.
Last updates: basically nothing changed. There has been no advance, they keep coming every single day to our living room and spend time with one of our cats, but from time to time she gets stressed (which is a problem because she tends to scratch, is not losing hair and her cancer might come back if she hurts her skin). There's still hissing but no attacks. Dos tends to stay in their hallway and he doesn't come that much.
The big issue began a couple of weeks ago when Dos (the only boy - unneutered) started spraying. Like e-ve-ry-whe-re.
At first we thought it was the litter box, we cleaned, we made extra sure to keep it clean and nothing... We cleaned the floors and nothing... we ended up buying a UV light to see what was going on.
I clean their hall e-ve-ry single day in the morning and the afternoon with water and vinegar. That helped the first couple of days. But now it feels the smell is not going away ever. I removed all the rope from their tree and all the fabric in the room. They all get very stressed when I go to clean, so I normally leave everything open and the girls go away, but Does stays in his house and gets into panic mode, but it's impossible not to clean... even when I am cleaning twice a day the smell is too strong so we have to keep their door closed most of the time.
Another thing that's been happening is the boy yelling at night... I feel Kato is starting to be annoyed by him because she's been fighting him. One night he was yelling so I turned on the camera and I saw he was yelling because Kato wouldn't let him go into their little house (never a problem before).
We are at the end of our rope. We cannot keep them inside when this is getting worse and his constant yelling is affecting already our neighbords (by now he yells every night, as it's getting colder the windows are mostly closed thank God).
Luckily the shelter accepted and offered to take them all in. After much thought we decided all 3 of them will go, as they can be socialized and get a better chance of getting a real home for themselves. That's something we haven't been able to provide to them.
We know Kato and Uno are easy to catch, we just guide them and they will go into any cage. Actually they were both inside the cage before I finished setting it up... But Dos is the issue as he is not food driven as the girls.
We stopped feeding them yesterday morning, and today we set up the trap with food for him. He was in panic from second one when Uno and Kato left the hallway. We tried to encourage him to get down from the tree and he began to get super aggressive.
When we removed his little house (he was hiding the entire time), it got worse.
The shelter people said we will have to trap him as if he was outside, so start feeding all of them from now on inside the trap. And not to bring the girls without him as he'd get worse and more stressed if he is left alone.
Is there any advice you can give us on how to catch him?
When we tried to fix him we tried to do it without traumatizing him and the reason why we haven't fixed him yet is because we haven't found a way to do it, and with all the job related issues and stress we had we couldn't simply keep feeding them inside the trap and keep trying nonstop... he is so freaking stubborn he will die of starvation before going into the trap to eat... Today when trying to trap him it got so bad that I was almost willing to open the door for him to leave as living conditions right now are becoming unbearable...
One change that did happen that might affecting him: there's a feral mom outside with 4 kittens.
We spot them 3 weeks ago... but the mom has them away from here so we only saw them a couple of more times.
I did bump into mom one day, she was laying on the garbage, so I ran back home and I brought food for her.
It seems his behaviour changed since those cats are around, but I have doubts as they are not outside that often... so I am not sure if he's becoming territorial.
The shelter seems to have experience with strays and ferals, socializing and then giving them for adoption to families they careful screen... at this point I have absolutely no doubts of my decision to give them to the shelter, I just need to find a way to bring them all to them.
Any advice??? Thank you in advance!
Dos in his beloved little house...
Uno playing with a box
Super Fat Kato.