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Hi @santanamomma I just noticed your recent post at the end of this thread.  This thread is a few years old, and I see there's no responses to your post, so I would suggest starting a new thread with your question.  People here are pretty helpful. Are your FeLV kitty and her brother actually...

@Pixies Ma So glad for your breakthrough and glad that he's coming back around after your first attempts at trapping him!  I didn't doubt that he would, but glad to see it happening!  He clearly trusts you quite a lot!  That says very good things about you!  :) Of course it's always nice that...

Hi all! Sorry I've been away for a bit, but so glad to read all of the interesting posts and I want read back up and respond to them.  But in the meantime I wanted to say that I love that so many in our community have weighed in with their experiences!  That's really what this site is all...

Honestly, any cat that comes onto my legal property is getting fixed, owned or not.  The way I see it, if people are worried about that, then they shouldn't let unfixed cats wander about the neighborhood to cause a community problem.  I had an ethical conundrum with that once, and since then...

From Suwanee, Georgia..... Rest in peace Spyro!  You are loved by all of us, sweet baby!  We now know your name and learned how special you were!  A life cut too short!  I'm so sorry precious girl!  :( Bless the heart of the person that hit her that rushed her to the vet!!  I'm sure that's a...

Meh, I just couldn't leave him to die.  But really, even if he wasn't in a state of near death, I would have done something for him.  No point in having him grow up feral.  You would have done the same too.  :) All of us that protect these babies, young or old babies, rock.  A big hug and high...

I'm guessing you're using a raccoon trap?  Try putting something like sardines on a small paper plate in the way back of it.  I couldn't catch one once with tuna, but sardines did the trick! I can't remember -- have you been able to pick him up?  If so, and if trying to trap him with sardines...

@Pixies Ma As for the growling, yes, he's just remembering what happened last time, but eventually he'll forget about it. 

Hi @Pixies Ma Unless I'm misunderstanding something about your particular situation, I'm not sure you have to start over with the trap.  Sure, I've read that you should put the trap out a week in advance to get them used to it, etc, but I wondered what the point in that was.  So I asked the...

Awwww so glad that Wordsworth has found a home!!  You rock!! I hear ya about kittens.  I do love them and they are so funny, but this one I have quarantined in my bedroom at the moment is an absolute terror at night.  I posted something on Facebook that reads like a drug (complete with the...

Hahaha! @Pixies Ma Yes, "residual feral response"!  Love it!  Is Minou "Mr. Feral"? It's interesting what you wrote about Minou not reacting much to Pixie, while Pixie was ready to claw his eyes out.  My indoor cats also respond much more dramatically to the outdoor cats.  The outdoor cats...

@Pixies Ma LOL!  One last update before bed... I had picked up Nero (the "ex-feral"), loved on him, and he was cool with that, but after I put him back down (gently) he weirded out.  He just kind of ducked and looked over his shoulder at me like I had offended him.  I believe in ending on a...

@Pixies Ma Btw, as an update, I experienced "the next day" thing too after the recent hissing episode with Titus. For sure, not all respond this way, but today he would eat at my feet.  He wasn't totally comfortably per se, as he threatened to run off at the slightest move, but he clearly was...

LOL!!!  "full feral mode"  @Pixies Ma  @Alicia88   I hear ya!  XD

LOL!!  You have a good point!  Maybe once they get "inside" the original Circle of Certain Death, there's an Uberdeath Circle that they rub on.....  Arancionini (the orange one) does exactly that.  He did rub on my knee that once while I was facing in a different direction and not paying...

Btw, in my progress with them, I don't mean to sound like "I'm so special that cats just like me".  No, I go to levels where I wonder what my neighbors might think if they saw me out on my back deck.  LOL!! What seems to work is very incremental, and really there's a lot of deference shown to...

I'm becoming more convinced that my theory has at least a little weight.  I had it happen again today.  This one ("Titus") got to where he would hang out on my deck, but would still move off to a safer distance when I came outside with the food.  But today he hissed at me, twice no less, while...

Hi @Chaucer!  Sorry, I've been off for a bit.  So glad you were able to help this kitten!  So beautiful!  Have you considered posting him on petfinder.com? I haven't used it personally, but someone whose cat I complimented recently that looked similar to that one said she found him on...

@Alicia88  -- Awww that's great that they were able to catch him and I hope they can give him a forever home! Absolutely love the pic you have up!  Soooo cute!!

Hi @Ondine  !  I'm so glad the post made you feel better!  Absolutely, these cats didn't start off hissing at me...they only started hissing once they decided to trust me.  So it sounds like your kitty trusts you enough to be willing to enter "the circle". And every cat is different.  My two...