Sorry for not visiting for a while.
The rest of our life is not doing as good as the cats. I have had so much help from you all so I own you an update and I have I also need a some advise. Here we go:
All kittens are now around ten month old, spayed, neuterd, vaccinated, chip-marked, dewormed and fairly healthy. The mamas is still only spayed and dewormed since I don't want to put them through the stress to be captured and caged again untill it is really nessacary.
The conflicts with our domestic cats are completely over. They can even play and sleep together now. All kittens sleep with us in the bed but Gipsy and Silas cannot be touched yet. Tosca has just discovered the joy of being huged and petted and little Wesely and Ice sleep under the cover as close as they can get.
Gipsy is on her way. She even jumps up in my husbands lap occationally but just to jump off again. She can also stand on her hindlegs, next to me in the kitchen when I'm preparing catfood.
The closest I've been to Silas lately was when he forgot that I am dangerous and pressed his head against my legs when there was candy on the way but that is several weeks ago now. He eat from my hand though.
Mama Agnes is the one who has done the most progress. This terrified skinny little mother, really ill from both Herpes and Chlamydia, keeping at least a five meter distance to us, is now round and healthy. She plays with her kittens and take candy from my hand (or put her claws in my hand so I drop the candy).
The one I am most worried about - and also need an advice about - is mama Moa. She appears to be healthy and she eats and drink but she avoids us. She has periods when she really seem depressed and her body language is very closed. She comes inside (from the closed cat-garden where she spend most of her time) only when it's really bad weather and to eat. When she lays down she lays on her stomac wit the legs under her and she never seem realxed. I have never seen her play or even looking at something with enthusiasm. We have been talking about let only her free. We let or domestic cats out and they have a catpatch where they only can get in so they can always get in but they need us to let them out. Moa is to afraid of us to get close enough for being let out. We live in a safe area but I don't want to let the kittens out untill I can lift and hold the all and they consider us their safety.
I want to keep Moa but she doesn't seem to want to keep us.
Then my other troublechild - little Wesely.
He is to smart. Playing is not enough to keep his mind busy. He needs to hunt. He has sneeked out a couple of times when I go to the chickens and he takes off on a long tour of his own. He is not afraid of anything. All my previous cats has always stayed with me but he is off.
He doesn't sleep half as much as the rest of the cats and when he is bored he where us out with meowing. He screems constantly untill we help him to get busy. I am thinking about to get a leach for him and take him on walks but I have never done that before and I am afraid that it will just make him more eager to get out.
I really hope it get's better when we can open the hole house. We are still living in one room and kitchen due to the renovation.
The rest of our life is not doing as good as the cats. I have had so much help from you all so I own you an update and I have I also need a some advise. Here we go:
All kittens are now around ten month old, spayed, neuterd, vaccinated, chip-marked, dewormed and fairly healthy. The mamas is still only spayed and dewormed since I don't want to put them through the stress to be captured and caged again untill it is really nessacary.
The conflicts with our domestic cats are completely over. They can even play and sleep together now. All kittens sleep with us in the bed but Gipsy and Silas cannot be touched yet. Tosca has just discovered the joy of being huged and petted and little Wesely and Ice sleep under the cover as close as they can get.
Gipsy is on her way. She even jumps up in my husbands lap occationally but just to jump off again. She can also stand on her hindlegs, next to me in the kitchen when I'm preparing catfood.
The closest I've been to Silas lately was when he forgot that I am dangerous and pressed his head against my legs when there was candy on the way but that is several weeks ago now. He eat from my hand though.
Mama Agnes is the one who has done the most progress. This terrified skinny little mother, really ill from both Herpes and Chlamydia, keeping at least a five meter distance to us, is now round and healthy. She plays with her kittens and take candy from my hand (or put her claws in my hand so I drop the candy).
The one I am most worried about - and also need an advice about - is mama Moa. She appears to be healthy and she eats and drink but she avoids us. She has periods when she really seem depressed and her body language is very closed. She comes inside (from the closed cat-garden where she spend most of her time) only when it's really bad weather and to eat. When she lays down she lays on her stomac wit the legs under her and she never seem realxed. I have never seen her play or even looking at something with enthusiasm. We have been talking about let only her free. We let or domestic cats out and they have a catpatch where they only can get in so they can always get in but they need us to let them out. Moa is to afraid of us to get close enough for being let out. We live in a safe area but I don't want to let the kittens out untill I can lift and hold the all and they consider us their safety.
I want to keep Moa but she doesn't seem to want to keep us.
Then my other troublechild - little Wesely.
He is to smart. Playing is not enough to keep his mind busy. He needs to hunt. He has sneeked out a couple of times when I go to the chickens and he takes off on a long tour of his own. He is not afraid of anything. All my previous cats has always stayed with me but he is off.
He doesn't sleep half as much as the rest of the cats and when he is bored he where us out with meowing. He screems constantly untill we help him to get busy. I am thinking about to get a leach for him and take him on walks but I have never done that before and I am afraid that it will just make him more eager to get out.
I really hope it get's better when we can open the hole house. We are still living in one room and kitchen due to the renovation.