No shop time for a while

[TB Roye]

LOML and I have been feed 2 feral cats over the past 2 years or so. Well 3 or 4 weeks ago one of them had a litter of Kittens, don't know how many but she suddenly became skinney and very hungry. She had gotter to be somewhat tame where you could touch her when you fed her. Hunger over Fear. Last night we had some bad down pours and she came twice to eat totally wet. We along with the neighbor lady decide today was the day to catch them as more bad weather was coming. We knew they were in the vacant yard behind my shop and her house. We went look and found her and 4 kittens in berry patch. She ran but we got the kittens and put them in Dog crate and place it on the front pourh were we fed he. Took about 3 hours for her to go into the crate so I could pull the door shut from inside the house. about 7pm this evening we caught her and move the family into my shop until next week when we will take her to be spade and get shots and the kitten to have their should and fixed when they are old enough. We will keep one kitten and mom who will be released to live as she please sans babies. There is a Feral Cat community here in Sacramento so we have a resource as to what to do. I will put a cat door in the door of my shop so she has a safte place to sleep and the kitten will join AJ the Rose the alpha dog and Lola the "junk yard dog" LOML found on the front pourch one night in January while I was in Idaho. I will post pictures after the family has a chance to calm down over the next few days. Would love the catch the father but that will take a trap as he is skitish as all get out. So there will be no shop time for at least the next 2 weeks.

Tom

[jackellis]

You've got a big heart Tom. Two is all I'll allow in our house.

Six years ago we adopted a feral cat that was rescued from the Stanford campus and other than the fact that she's always begging for food and often steals it from our adopted male, she's turned into a real sweetie.

We tend to think all house cats are domesticated but some of the feral cats I've seen in shelters are too wild and too ornery to keep as house pets. They either have to be turned back outside after being spayed or neutered, or they have to be destroyed. Sad, because some of the ones we saw were incredibly beautiful.

[TB Roye]

We will keep one of the kittens and let mom live as she choses. We will fix a place for her to eat and make a place alongside or behind the shop for her to sleep. She is fairly friendly when she is hungry so we might beable to tame her if not ok.

Tom

[smorris]

Good work, and good luck taming mom.

We have 2 cats that were from feral litters the mother(s) abandoned in our attic. Had to bottle feed the litters until they were old enough to be given away to friends.

One neighborhood feral cat comes to meet our son when he comes home and he feeds it. It is surprisingly friendly.

[jackellis]

Tom,

Our experience was that food is really important since feral cats are always on the edge of starvation. Molly earned herself an adoption slot when she accepted a treat from a volunteer at the shelter that kept her. She was fine with women but did not like men (who trapped her, spayed her and treated her pretty roughly when cleaning her cage). I got her to accept me by first making her walk past me to get to her dinner, and later making her sit in between my legs to eat.

[TB Roye]

Morning report

She has moved the kittens from the dog crate to behind the router table in the corner. She is eating a using the litter box. She makes a mess using it though litter is scatered all over. I am going to leave them pretty much alone for couple of day other than at feeding time when I wll go in a put the food where she has to come out in front of me. Before being captured you could pet her alittle while she was eating. Bad weather coming this afternoon and evening so a least she will be dry.

Tom

[Ed62]

If you take care of animals, you'll go to heaven. Just be careful with them because a cat bite can cause some real serious problems.

Ed

[cabinetman]

If you take care of animals, you'll go to heaven. Just be careful with them because a cat bite can cause some real serious problems.

Ed

We have three cats that don't go outside, but have all their claws. A cat's scratch can be worse than a cat bite.
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[SARGE..g-47]

You have my admiration, Tom..