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Yeah, that’s right, ugh! I do TNR (trap neuter return)for ferals and strays in my neighborhood and haven’t had kittens for 3 years. Well I didn’t come out of the kitten season unscathed this time. For me, kittens are a sign of failure. A stray mom brought me 5 kittens almost a month ago, and thank god they are not feral. Everyone is spayed, neutered, and vaccinated now and I’ve already had one adopted. So enjoy the cutie photos but please remember to spay and neuter. Even if it’s not your cat, you can work with a neighbor who needs help, or be the neighborhood hero and fix ferals or any “neighborhood” cats, if you pet it, or feed it, or care in the slightest, spay and neuter please! Your local shelter, rescue or SPCA probably has a low cost spay and neuter clinic. We are talking like 40 bucks a cat and less in more urban areas. Less than fifty dollars can stop so much suffering.
I wish all “failures” looked that cute. 😛
Thanks for sharing these. I hope all of them find loving forever homes. I’m sure if the cats understood what you are doing for them, they would thank you if they could.
So cute! We still have 3 kittens from the pregnant abandoned Siamese kitty we took in that had a couple litters before we were able to get her spayed.
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They are adorable! A friend, overwhelmed with sick parents, missed the “window” with a stray female kitten she adopted (she has a tamed feral colony, all spaded and neutered, that live outside) and as a result is dealing with the four surviving kittens. One, named “Oops”, (the others are ‘Zilla, the biggest, “Uh-Oh” and “Missy – stak”) is the runt and at 6 weeks still fits in my friend’s hand. The runt is now being syringe fed kitty milk, to try and bring her up in weight. The mother cat is still not fixed; my friend can’t leave her bedbound mother or very absent minded father (multiple strokes) alone and there is no one to take the mother cat in to be fixed (I’m homebound and can’t help). Sometimes it is tough doing what needs to be done…
Kittens! I hope they’re all able to find good, loving homes. I’ve been dealing with stray cat drama for a while myself. A young female showed up in our neighborhood not long after we moved into our rented house here. She’s not feral but is extremely shy, staying just out of arm’s reach. It’s taken me years to get to the point where she’ll sniff my hand before I put food down for her. She’s had two litters, the first of which saw all of the kittens caught and taken into our county shelter. Her most recent litter was two, one of which we’ve caught and taken to the shelter, but the other is still with her. Now that the kitten is weaned, I fear Mama is pregnant again.
We’ve had a trap loaned to us from the county shelter, and put it out intermittently on the days when we’d be able to keep an eye on the trap. But Mama seems to know her way around traps, and although she and her kitten will wolf down food on trap-less days, they’re nowhere to be seen when the trap is present in their normal feeding spot. Frustrating! I’ve hoped to adopt Mama myself, despite my husband’s firmness on our one-cat-at-a-time current household. We’ll see – I’ve got to catch her first!
LupusLunae, you’re wonderful for helping to spay, neuter, and foster so many kitties! All that cute looks contagious 🙂
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Rock-reader, call someone and explain the situation. Unless you are in the sticks, you have a county shelter, a SPCA, and possibly multiple rescues and feral cat groups. Try crying on the phone, it works way more than it should. Make the appointment for the spay over the phone and beg a neighbor or friend to transport the cat. It’s literally a small portion of your day for drop off and pick up and some after care. If you live anywhere near me in California, I will come steal your cat for you right now and have her spayed next Saturday at clinic.
Zelda, you’ve got to scare them into making a mistake when the trap is out and smelly food works good too we used some pieces of barbecue chicken, and the scare can be something as simple as a quick noisy door open or throwing something noisy in their general direction but not at them…
many years ago, my neighbors moved and left their momma cat and kittens behind….only the small one triggered it on his own….but the funny one was momma got caught when a kitten followed her in, she hissed mine!, kitten backed up and tripped it, she turned around and bopped him after that….the rest, I scared with the noisy door opening, they all got scared and accidentally stepped on the trigger, took a few tries but got them all….
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Rock-reader, call someone and explain the situation. Unless you are in the sticks, you have a county shelter, a SPCA, and possibly multiple rescues and feral cat groups. Try crying on the phone, it works way more than it should. Make the appointment for the spay over the phone and beg a neighbor or friend to transport the cat. It’s literally a small portion of your day for drop off and pick up and some after care. If you live anywhere near me in California, I will come steal your cat for you right now and have her spayed next Saturday at clinic.
Heh. I’m glad you don’t live anywhere near St. Louis! All my swearing I will never have more than two cats at a time again would go right out the window for those two black kittens!
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We trapped our mama cat with a walk in trap we got from an auto parts store. If you put fish in like tuna or sardines, they are really smelly and cats have a hard time resisting going in the trap. We had two cats until the mama cat and now have 5 with her and 3 kittens we kept. We had another older kitty too but she passed away. I got them a nice tall cat tree with several levels off Amazon so all of them can sleep on it at once if they want to.
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