I just found this site today and thought I'd join up to tell my story................
I built a new house out in a rural community about 30 miles south of KC. I fell in love with the beautiful woods and creek that sat behind the house. It's so quiet and somewhat secluded.
Shortly after I moved in, I spotted a white cat roaming around in the woods. I would call to her and she would just give me a dirty look and run off to the trees. ABout 6 months later, last early spring, we found three little kittens running around in our garage. They belonged to the white feral I had been watching.
We started putting food out close to the woods where we could see them. Every evening, when I got home from work, I would sit out in the yard and watch them eat, moving a little closer and closer a few days at a time.
I next started moving the food bowl closer and closer to the house, still sitting within view of them. After about 5 months of repeating the same routine, I had them to where they would actually come to me for their food bowl. I teased them with some canned food on a spoon and eventually built trust with two of them. SugarBear and StripieCat. The 3rd kitten is a male and he is spooked "Spooky" by every little thing I do, but he does come up on the deck to eat and just hang out.
SugarBear and StripieCat come in the house every night now. They sleep in our room with us. But early every morning, they go back out to the wild. We are the only human contact they have.
Today is Christmas. The "momma cat" just presented us with another kitten! I have named her "Christmas".
So here we go again!
I built a new house out in a rural community about 30 miles south of KC. I fell in love with the beautiful woods and creek that sat behind the house. It's so quiet and somewhat secluded.
Shortly after I moved in, I spotted a white cat roaming around in the woods. I would call to her and she would just give me a dirty look and run off to the trees. ABout 6 months later, last early spring, we found three little kittens running around in our garage. They belonged to the white feral I had been watching.
We started putting food out close to the woods where we could see them. Every evening, when I got home from work, I would sit out in the yard and watch them eat, moving a little closer and closer a few days at a time.
I next started moving the food bowl closer and closer to the house, still sitting within view of them. After about 5 months of repeating the same routine, I had them to where they would actually come to me for their food bowl. I teased them with some canned food on a spoon and eventually built trust with two of them. SugarBear and StripieCat. The 3rd kitten is a male and he is spooked "Spooky" by every little thing I do, but he does come up on the deck to eat and just hang out.
SugarBear and StripieCat come in the house every night now. They sleep in our room with us. But early every morning, they go back out to the wild. We are the only human contact they have.
Today is Christmas. The "momma cat" just presented us with another kitten! I have named her "Christmas".
So here we go again!