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A family friend just found 5 kittens under her new home. I've attached a photo, but they look to be less than 1 week old from the one kitten I could get a good look at.
The Queen is still around and caring for the litter, so we of course intend to trap her too, and then keep her with the kittens for as long as possible.
Unfortunately, we are pretty overloaded with cats at our house right now in every single respect, and don't have a room available to foster these guys.
The bathrooms and laundry room we have would be marginally bigger than the amount of space they'd have with a crate. Additionally, those areas would be a lot louder, we'd be battling cool tile floors, and it would honestly be more inconvenient for us to keep them there, so we'd like to avoid it if possible (but if we have to, we obviously will).
Our TNR/feral crates are about 30" x 48". They come with a removable divider that we place horizontally to make a shelf to add a little extra square footage (see photos of some of our set ups attached). This would also allow Momma cat to have some space and alone time away from the litter when needed.
From a brief glance, I see Midwest has a slightly larger crate at about 37" x 54" that we can spring for too if necessary.
My specific questions are as follows:
- Should we opt for buying the larger crate?
- Would either crate be an acceptable amount of space to keep an adult cat and 5 neonatal kittens in for the time being?
- And if so, for how long? At what age would the kittens be likely to "age out" in terms of that amount of space being sufficient? I just need an educated guess on that, as my experience with kittens is minimal.
I really want to trap all of these guys by tomorrow or Wednesday. Currently, the plan is to trap them, find a shelter that will take them, and continue fostering until we or the shelter can find someone else to foster them.
So I am hoping the crate situation can work for at least a couple of weeks.
Thanks everyone!
Kittens -
A couple variations of our usual crate set ups -
The Queen is still around and caring for the litter, so we of course intend to trap her too, and then keep her with the kittens for as long as possible.
Unfortunately, we are pretty overloaded with cats at our house right now in every single respect, and don't have a room available to foster these guys.
The bathrooms and laundry room we have would be marginally bigger than the amount of space they'd have with a crate. Additionally, those areas would be a lot louder, we'd be battling cool tile floors, and it would honestly be more inconvenient for us to keep them there, so we'd like to avoid it if possible (but if we have to, we obviously will).
Our TNR/feral crates are about 30" x 48". They come with a removable divider that we place horizontally to make a shelf to add a little extra square footage (see photos of some of our set ups attached). This would also allow Momma cat to have some space and alone time away from the litter when needed.
From a brief glance, I see Midwest has a slightly larger crate at about 37" x 54" that we can spring for too if necessary.
My specific questions are as follows:
- Should we opt for buying the larger crate?
- Would either crate be an acceptable amount of space to keep an adult cat and 5 neonatal kittens in for the time being?
- And if so, for how long? At what age would the kittens be likely to "age out" in terms of that amount of space being sufficient? I just need an educated guess on that, as my experience with kittens is minimal.
I really want to trap all of these guys by tomorrow or Wednesday. Currently, the plan is to trap them, find a shelter that will take them, and continue fostering until we or the shelter can find someone else to foster them.
So I am hoping the crate situation can work for at least a couple of weeks.
Thanks everyone!
Kittens -
A couple variations of our usual crate set ups -