Tramatized Stray Kittens….in my garage

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  • 14 December, 2011 at 8:31 am #49456
    HollyndSkye
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    Three days ago I came upon a box of stray kittens and their mother, in the parking lot of a Shilo Inn that should be in a horror movie. From what I could gain from the receptionist. The mother of the three kittens has been living in a cardboard box next to the hotel for a couple of months and being fed by the people that work at the hotel.

    This cat who I have named Circe is incredibly sweet and even lets me and my mom pet her. She looks very worse for ware and is very frightened by people. The receptionist has told me that this is Circe’s second litter of kittens (that she has seen) and that the last litter that she had was 6 kittens. As you all know, it is winter, and I was informed that all of the kittens had frozen. 🙁 That said, this is her second litter and there are 3 kittens left.

    In the past 3 days I have gone back to this hotel and managed to catch 2 of the three kittens (which are both in my garage next to the space heater). Their names are Eros, and Aries. 🙂 All of the kittens are about 4 to 6 weeks old and very frightened.

    I am going to go back tomorrow and try to catch the last kitten, who’s name is Romeo, and the mother, Circe. The last couple night’s temperatures have been under 20 degrees F, and I am afraid the they will freeze. 🙁

    Does anyone have any advice on how to catch these last two?

    Since I have 2/3 of the kittens in my garage I need to begin to socialize them, I have decided to take them to my vet to get them checked out and find them homes myself.

    Unfortunately there has been a slight set back with one of the kittens because it escaped from the dog kennel (that is functioning as their home for the moment) when I opened the door and I had to chase it around and catch it. So Aries is very traumatized and frightened of me. 🙁

    Can anyone give me any advice on training the kittens and socializing them?

    Unfortunately I cannot keep them because my family already has 3 cats, and I think that 6 would make me a borderline hoarder.

    Thank you for your help. You have NO IDEA how much me and my family thank you for your help! 🙂

    14 December, 2011 at 8:52 am #710474
    jcat
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    Hi, Monkey, I think you’re doing a wonderful thing. Thank you so much for trying to rescue these babies. These threads have a lot of good advice on socializing abused and/or feral cats:

    http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/28496

    http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/12527

    Also click on the pink tag, ‘Socializing’ for more discussion of this subject. You may also find these links useful:

    http://www.messybeast.com/feralkit.htm

    http://www.feralcat.com/trapinst.html

    http://www.alleycat.org/page.aspx?pid=328

    The best way to try and catch Circe and her kitten is by trapping them humanely (see the last 2 links) and hopefully this will be a bit easier if she already trusts you a little but you may need some patience and it may take a day or two. The people at the hotel will have to start feeding Circe ONLY in the trap or it won’t work. Keep checking back as many other people here have experience with trapping and taming ferals and I’m sure you’ll get some good advice. You’ve already done a wonderful job by trapping two of the kittens. You can also use the cries of these two kittens to attract their mum — if you have a local trap-neuter-release group nearby, they should be able to lend you a trap and give you some advice. Please keep in touch and let us know how it goes. {{{HUGS}}} for what you are doing.

    And for keeping Circe and her baby warm until you can catch them, you could try making a shelter for them, a warm place in a box of some sort, off the ground, out of draughts, maybe with a heating pad in it or a survival sheet or just a sweater, insulated with polystyrene, styrofoam, hay and/or newspapers. Again, these links might help (a couple even have videos):

    http://theverybestcats.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-make-outdoor-cat-shelter.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDs6eMkuD8w

    http://www.indyferal.org/index.php?page=shelters

    http://www.urbancatleague.org/Shelters.html

    http://jeannash.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Keep-Outdoor-Cats-Warm-In-Winter

    http://www.spayandstay.org/wintershelter.htm

    But I’m hoping you can trap them quickly so that a shelter to keep them warm won’t be so important — nevertheless, if you can’t trap them quickly, it may save their lives.

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