Recent Content by bdriver55

Only posted here a few times and am no expert on ferals. Just wanted to say be patient. We also fed our feral outside, then inside with a paint can holding up the garage door. He always came when we called him for dinner too. This fall we shut him in. PA winters are nasty. It's a heated double...

You are all so helpful! I just went in the garage to get the cat's bowls to fill. He was sitting on his cardboard box under a work bench. I layed on the floor to be lower than him and blinked. Instantly he blinked back. I blinked back and he kept blinking slowly at me, so I did the same. I felt...

Thank you for your encouraging words. It would sure be sweet if one day the dogs and cat could all be together. I got my dogs as puppies, from the same litter. The cats were 8 and not impressed. One day the puppies accidently ran into my Siamese. He jumped up and bit them both in the side. He...

You sure seem to have a lot of experience with ferals. I thought sure I'd feed him for a couple weeks and he'd be purring and rubbing against my leg, or at least the progress would slowly continue. Your right, they all have different personalities, and I just have to be patient. I"ll put some...

Thank you all for your sweet stories and words of encouragement. I was beginning to feel like a failure in gaining his trust. From reading here, he is behaving normal for a feral. He seems very content, like it's HIS garage and I'm in HIS space. I never tried reading him a book. I usually sit a...

Will check out the pet taxi trap. I've had many cats, but never a feral. Lacey was, but young enough to adapt. She slept on my husband's pillow with him, but hated to be held. Hid from any strangers. She passed from stomach cancer, tucked inside my sweat shirt. She refused to get in the crate to...

Hello. I am a cat and dog person, presently with 3 big dogs. They were raised with Cocoa, my Siamese, and Lacey, all black, found in a factory abandoned. She was so small we thought she was a kitten. Turned out she had her second teeth, so my vet placed her at about 6 months. Both Lacey and...