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Excellent news - the feral has eaten and the problem seems to have cured itself. Yesterday she took three-quarters of a tin of food along with a tablet of predistone/ (cortizone). Today, on vets orders I stopped the cortizone and gave her premium food - another three-quarters of a tin plus some...

so far a failure. I mixed too much food with the tablet so as she took just a small mouthful, it probably wasn't enough. It hurts her so much now to eat -- I think she has more or less stopped trying. She also associates me with pain now so runs further away from me. I think we have a dead cat...

After a bit of research and phone calls to Rivi from the cat welfare society there are a couple of options. To throw a net over her (in this case a sheet) or give her some sedatives (I have dismissed that idea as she would go away to sleep and hide and I wouldn't then find her. Also went to the...

The cat welfare society was already at my workplace trying to trap this cat. The guy is an expert but could not catch her so I really don't know what to do. Maybe now she is sick and weaker, we should try again.

I look after four ferals in my work place. Two are pretty tame and allow me to touch and even hold them. The other two are frightened of getting too near me. I have never been able to get them into a box or trap (except when they were young and spayed/neutered). Now one of them has some...

I have adopted an ex-feral who was tame with me but rather agressive to the other ferals in the group. She has been spayed and has lived in the house with my four other cats for 3 months. She has adapted to home life perfectly except for the fact that she gets very manic (especially at night)...