One of the strays that I take care of, Greyie
, I assume, recently had kittens. (she looked very pregnant, disappeared for a few weeks, then returned intermittantly to feed then left quickly.). Since the morning of the 23rd, she's been on the back porch (where the main "food station" is) wailing until I come out and sit and pet her for awhile. You'd think that with kittens, I'm guessing would be 5 weeks old or less, that she wouldn't be hanging around 24/7 and wailing if everything was alright with them. (Unfortunately, I'm in an area that gets cold winters, and my father will not permit any more cats in the house, 2 is more than enough for him, so I have no choice to leave them outside with homemade insulated shelters, which they don't seem to like too much. I don't know how to handle catching them all, only have access to one rentable humane trap, and I have no idea where I'd go about storing the strays during the recovery time after "fixing" them, so I haven't been able to get them altered yet.
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3 out of the last 4 days (Thanksgiving and the previous 3 days) before the crying started, the ground was covered in morning frost, so I assume they had to have perished in the cold, since there's no real way to know for sure other than her constant hanging around and crying, since I never learned where her latest nest was since she shunned my shelters. She's been crying nearly non-stop since then, only stopping when I'm out there petting her. Is there anything else I can do to help her to feel better?
(Oddly enough the other strays, who didn't get along before, seem to be tolerating each other and staying close to her. I can only assume they are being supportive in some way. I didn't know cats did that, but until last year, I've been in an Only Cat home, so maybe this is typical behavior and I wasn't aware of it.
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3 out of the last 4 days (Thanksgiving and the previous 3 days) before the crying started, the ground was covered in morning frost, so I assume they had to have perished in the cold, since there's no real way to know for sure other than her constant hanging around and crying, since I never learned where her latest nest was since she shunned my shelters. She's been crying nearly non-stop since then, only stopping when I'm out there petting her. Is there anything else I can do to help her to feel better?
(Oddly enough the other strays, who didn't get along before, seem to be tolerating each other and staying close to her. I can only assume they are being supportive in some way. I didn't know cats did that, but until last year, I've been in an Only Cat home, so maybe this is typical behavior and I wasn't aware of it.
