Wonderful stories from all of you and your ferals! It takes a lot of time and patience, as I am finding out. My day is short with spending 1 1/2 hours twice a day with them and then my other elderly resident cat and my mother and husband. You are all AMAZING!
I do plan to put a crate in there...
Thank you for suggestions and the welcome! As to a crate, she is much too wary and saavy for that, plus it would stress the kittens out to have her trapped as they all were in January. I would have to starve her and I don't want to do that with the kittens. Just seeing a wire crate would make...
Do you just sprinkle a teaspoon on the feral's wet food? I read where 1 teaspoon is the dose for cats. Mama was 9 pounds a couple of months ago. The kittens were 4 pounds each. They've all gained a little weight since then.
Also, I got this food grade DE at Tractor Supply and I don't think...
Thank you both for replying! I will try and put some DE in their food, but they're extremely fussy and wary of any new smell in foods. I used Capstar this morning for all three and that's the only thing they WILL take in food.
My vet said she didn't think DE was effective for tapeworms so I...
Hello:
This is my first post. I had a family of three ferals appear in December in my back yard. Mama is 2 years and kittens are now 6 months old. I had them trapped by a rescue group after feeding them for a month. The Humane Society did not treat for worms, but they were all spayed.
I took...