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It's been going well for a while. Dandelion has it good :) He is very sweet and gentle and not aggressive. He turned around fairly quckly once I was able to get my hands on him (which as I had mentioned took 3 months). When he was letting me pet him I'd try lifting him up and putting him back...

I have to tell you guys - now that these kittens are 2 years old already - that Dandelion is my buddy. He still has his quirky skittishness and he is bonded only to me (nobody else can pet him) but boy does he LOOOOOVE me. He follows me around and meows to be petted and when I get home from...

At the office park where I work there is a feral family - a mama and 4 kittens - living under the shed outside of our daycare. We are plotting our trapping plans - I have trapped colonies before - and I have folks who can foster and work with the kittens, who appear to be 3 months or so. So...

SO - I have not posted in a while.  I was not feeling good about Dandelion's progress.  Everybody told me to release him, but I couldn't do it.   I was really worried he would never come around.  Lo and behold - New Year's weekend he finally let me pet him in a non-eating moment.  I can approach...

I let Dandelion out of the pen last Friday - almost a week ago. So now the two sibling kittens have the run of the room. There are lots of things to hide behind, and to explore. Yes he just hid the first few days. He is always really food driven though and will come out of hiding when I...

Dandelion continues to have good moments and not so good ones.  Past couple of days he didn't hiss as much.  I am careful how I approach him which helps.  He will hop right down from his platforms at mealtime, and I can pet him pretty good, he is still hesitant but better.  Last night though...

Dandelion Update!  So we got our kitten pen in place yesterday.  Lots more room for kitty, which is good on its own.  But Dandelion still balled up in one corner and didn't really want to move even for food.  So we put his sister in the pen with him!  She's the only other kitten not adopted out...

I see this is an older thread and I am new to the site and have a similar issue I am dealing with so thought I'd add anyway.  I have just done a web search on this topic and it brought me right back here.  All things CAT!  LOL. I am also in a different thread about some feral kittens I am...

Thanks for the replies guys!  Much appreciated.  We did make some progress just yesterday.  Basically feeding as a two person operation - one to distract him with the food, and the other to sneak petting in.  We actually got to pet him while he ate and then kept petting him when he was done...

Getting back to the hissy issue, I have a hisser on my hands also.  He was a stray, and showed up about a year ago.   Really skinny, we fed him and he stayed - barging into the house and hunkering down on the sofa during a storm last fall.  Took him to the vet, only because he got into the...

I love this site and all the great advice and really could use some of my own. "Dandelion" is one of 6 kittens from a 10-cat feral colony in our area.  We did TNR with the adults, but the kittens we have hung onto to socialize and overall that has been a lot of work but has gone better than I...