Limping feral kitten under my care.

If this belongs in the Feral & Rescue forum, I appologize.

Today one of the feral kittens that I feed came to the backporch where the food is located and would not stand on "his" left hind leg at all and limped around. I am unable to hold him or get close enough to do an inspection of his leg to determine a possible cause of the injury, nor it's severity. He was able to lift the leg to lick himself, and was able to scratch the back of his head with that paw. Is this something that would require a vet's care, or is it likely that it will clear up on it's own? If a vet trip is needed, how would I go about catching him, and if need be, how would I keep him confined til the injury heals? (We have 2 cats, so my father will not allow anymore inside the house.) Or would he be fine roaming free while he's healing?

KittenKiya - Okay, I'll have to check into that shortly.

Does trapping them to get them healed or fixed damage their trust of you? That's good.

Eep! Wow, it must have been scary with all that blood. That's great. ^_^ One of my big concerns is if the black and white tom cat who killed a number of the kittens and adults in the "herd" who were here a year ago has returned after a 4 month absence. (I think I only have 2 left from a year ago, the rest of the bunch disappeared. From what a neighbor told me, and from my own knowledge of hearing, and usually breaking up cat fights, several cats, including their own got infected wounds and died.)

Well, the kittens will run up to me (since I'm the one who feeds them ) and will get close, but only one of the group will let me touch them without fleeing. And "she's" only allowed that for less than a week now.

Thank you.

jcat - The community where we live has ONE humane trap ($10 returnable deposit.). Heh, my vet's going to get sick of seeing us since we're often there for our 18 year old cat Duncan who has Pre-renal disease (something like that), late onset epilepsy, arthritis, frequent UTIs, and last week was found to have a slight amount of congestive heart failure with water retention. We've been wanting to take them to one of the free fixing clinics, but we don't currently have 5+ cats who are old enough and not currently nursing, but it's something that needs done real soon since the two adults (both females) had a litter in the last 2 months.