My rescued brownie

Yes, I got him/her, don't know which it is yet, but just look at that cat, it is very tiny and was coming back and back meowing constantly on my yard, I have no any background of what this kitty is, just that it has been eating at my warehouse quite some time.

I don't know how old that is, but certainly not very old, has already eye color changed, eats solid food and was certainly alone out there, but I doubt that kitty would have much chance of surviving on it own, kitty is just too young, imo.

Anyway it is very feral, did run off always when saw human no matter how far human was, it was just like mauku in cage, trying to run trough it when I picked up the trap, but now just sits at corner of trap, being really scared, I try to arrange some water and food for him, maybe it is too small for neutering/spaying, who knows, my totally non educated guess is 12-16 weeks.

Poor creature, have to think what to do with him/her, I already have three and having one more will be really troublesome for multiple of reasons, but I don't know if local shelter has any interest of getting extra work of socializing one more kitty, of course I could do socialization, I have one room to keep little one, but being alone in one room is not right for poor thing.

I must call at least vet at monday, also have to try and find out if anyone is missing such cat, but I doubt, it has been around for month, maybe more, but now something has happened to mother of his/hers I guess, because kitten is all alone.

But when I look that kitten it is just really really hard to not adobt beauty like that, perfect colours and how odd they are, I have never seen such brown variant, not even when trying to look photos of such, there is clear M pattern on head too, also kitten is very vocal, might get very much people friendly.

Miuku decided to introduce himself to little one already, he is very slippery one and from tiny gap he managed to run investigate that new noise he kept hearing, that is Brownie meowing, had to shoo Miuku away, surely Brownie needs pest treatments first, but shoo ended up with some petting, Brownie did look with some amusement for sure and for my surprise slow blinking was already responded, he is so young and has no idea about cruelity of world yet.

Now Miuku is at least twice the size of Brownie, it might be that 3 Brownies would fit in space of one Miuku and Miuku is about one year old now, so Brownie really can't be 6 months, probably not even close to 6 months.

It would be so good to get Brownie to upstairs, even in trap, but I like to be bit cautious about earmites and all those other pests.

Around brownies eyes are those tan circles, edges of eyelids are tan colour instead of dark brown, that makes quite effect when Brownie is looking towards me, incredible little kitten really and how Brownie is not panicking any more, just observing how I set up some water and meat for him/her to eat.

Little brownie is meowing again, probably misses some company, somehow for me it seems that Brownie is type that hates to be alone.

There is some odd things however, little one meows now constantly if it does not see me, oh and as I put meat into trap for him to eat, he came to sniff meat in my finger, maybe poor thing is just so hungry, but it is bit odd considering he did flee very fast when he did spot me on yard, even over 20 meters away.

I have fed him now almost 100 grams of meat, should be plenty for overnight. Of course constant meowing is consuming energy, maybe radio would help with old t-shirt.

Could it be that poor thing is looking parent so desperately that me giving food causes him to think me as his lost mother?

Without such feral behaviour before capturing I would say it is abandoned pet, at least did not try to bite me, just took meat from finger once as I was putting it in, very odd.

Distance to closest settlement where could be cats is quite far away, really don't think they would abandon any kitties.

Well, brownie is purring and loves to rub himself against my finger if I put it into cage, I think that he really has had some interaction with humans before, thing is here are no cat friendly people that would consider new cat, at least very near, I suspect someone did dump him from car as there is road going past here, however I'm going to ask around naturally.

This kitty is just so tiny and very much begging attention, maybe I should let him roam around room and see a bit how well he takes handling, surely in trap he just loves being stroked by single finger, seem to also like from playing with string, can't really understand why anyone would dump this kind of kitten.

He/She is quite skinny and eats like a horse, I have already given more than half his size of amount meat and some dry food and he would probaby eat at least same amount more, but I try to keep some limits as it can be poor thing is eating himself to death as finally is getting again some food.

This one surely meows a lot, meows even when drinking or eating, when I stick my finger into trap then not meowing, but just purring as he comes so that I can stroke him a bit with finger, he surely woulds like to get out of trap though and I'm not all too sure it would be easy to catch if he does so.

Oh and also drinks a lot, when looking at his size he already drank quite good share of his body volume. I could also feel how kitten is just skin and bones, when touching I can feel bones of his everywhere, it may take a bit for him to recover.

Of course can be she also, there is no way telling as trap bottom is covered too.

I just hope poor kitty will be ok and no any internal damage from sufferings it has been trough.

Ah he has eaten and drank everything again, I just wonder where it all does go, kitty is not so large to be able to drink and eat all that without growing in size

Brownie is now at shelter, they keep him 15 days and then it is end of the line, but we did agreed that after 15 days I can pick him up if owner is not found, so I can keep him until owner is found or if is not found then he can be here forever.

He was really tiny one, weighted next to nothing really, I did pick him up and put into carrier and he did not struggle at all, also it was like lifting piece of paper, so he really weighted 20 times less than Miuku.

Brownie is so tiny that it would not been difficult to keep him at single palm what comes to size of him.

We have here only 1000 residents and shelter is run by single farmer which I know personally, it is however official shelter in government authority and they don't support no kill policy, only for 15 days.

Law is such that owner of cat has right to reclaim cat for 15 days and tame cats should always be brought to shelters if there is just room in shelter.

Of course I will phone there earlier to remind him from our arrangement and to ask if cat's owner has been found, it is just that I have to go to three business trip in coming weeks, which means I have no chance to be there for such little kitten, but those will be last trips in this year and after that I can shelter him myself or even give forever home if owner can't be found, there is unofficial system where missing or found pets can be announced, ad is there up to 120 days, if after that owner is not found, I think it is not possible to find owner of kitten and after that time I think kitten starts to be already at home so much that it is perhaps best to just offer him forever home.

Technically speaking I would not be able to hold kitten legally without giving him to shelter first, with my other three it is bit gray area actually, boys were completely wild ferals, born without human contacts, mother cat really has not had much if any human contacts, they haven't had owners, but as they did not go trough the shelter they are not perfectly legally adopted.

We have some way quite strict law and high standards of animal wellfare, common sense has not much room in that, but also there is different word of law and practise of law.

Surely trusting to shelter is not something I'm going to do, human is err or something like that, but chance of anything happening before 15 days pass is not too great at this case, well except owner showing up, there is good chance for that really.

Indeed, he actually started constant meowing right when he did not see me, ended up sleeping next to him and trap, uncomfy for sure, also he begged some petting and easily allowed handling.

Not many weeks of age really, but surely quite some time on his own as he got scared when saw people and did run away, also he was bit jumpy in trap, but generally just lost pet, did clearly love human beings but it took bit time for him to remember, he did ate quite a bit before that, so small and so big appetite

I have one born in wild for feral that is real love bug, one similar that comes to beg petting at times and mother of those two that really does not tolerate any touching and likes to keep bit of distance, it took months to be just able to touch briefly one's head, of course they were not trapped then, but when I did trap them after I had got them to level where they did tolerate small touching, it took again long time to see them as they did hide everytime they saw me.
In trap they were very different all three, but common thing was that there was no way I would put my finger in there, pose was completely different from this one, even though at first Brownie was similar, however after good dinner he became very curious about his surroundings and actually was interested from playing too.

This experience has taught me again many things of how to tell difference between feral and tame kitten, one thing is that feral is silent, does stare but not curiously, more of furiously, also Brownie was moving around the trap, but all other tree were not, just stayed on one place, Mauku was bit special, being more feral than her kittens she did hurt herself as she was trying to get trough trap walls, it was truly horrifying place to be to her, even covered. Miuku was attacking teaspoon which I used to give water to him, Mouku was only one of them that was not aggressive in trap, but he was shaking of fear.

Ears, head position and eyes were all similar with these ferals, but after Brownie did eat it was different, surely he was not happy in trap and he was scared, but not like ferals, ears did move around, he was looking surroundings curiously and just accepting being trapped, quite difficult to tell why I did saw him being different, but I think it was whole body posture and how he did move and what he was looking that did affect to my judgement of sticking my finger into trap and see him bumping on that with loudly purring sounds

Brownie is doing fine, I did call to shelter and they say brownie is using litter box and being very friendly kitty making everyone fall in love to him/her, forgot to ask about that.

I heard that there are a lot of kitties lost now, so I will do some trapping when I can.

There is now a older couple that had contacted a shelter, they say that Brownie might be theirs or at least they can take it if nobody else is taking him, also they are interested those who I have seen at my warehouse.

I got bit suspicious, if one is lost their kittens, how come lost kitten might be theirs or how they can say they can take one if nobody else is taking it?

Might be just some misunderstanding, but I think that I ask few carefully placed questions, like when they lost their kittens, how and how many, what colours etc. So that I know they are genuine claims and not just someone wanting any kitten that pops up and then abandoning when getting bored again and not being even original owners.

Maybe I'm just bit paranoid, but during my life, I have seen quite lot of crime and lying, I don't have much trust for fellow man.

I found out that Brownie's mother was cat of one farmer quite bit distance away, farmer told that "I did dispose mother cat so that it will not get pregnant again", he is ok to me having two kittens if he gets one, so I try to catch two others that are at my warehouse and I try to get brownie and one other that is completely black saved, one grey I have to then give to them, but they did promise to get that one fixed and give him opportunity as a barn cat.

My stomach is upside down from that really, but there is laws and have to follow those.

Also I know now why there are so many cats in this area, there is one family that has more than 20 cats and none of them is fixed, so there is really lot of kittens every summer, they probably "dispose" all they find, so mother cats that are bit more clever move their kittens to safety.

I think that sometimes it might be good to use similar population control to humans than what some people do with animals, it is of course very wrong from some reason I can't find any logical base, it is odd this life and ways of people.

I'm thinking that there must be more than one father.

One kitten is black, no other colours, Brownie you have seen, then there is grey with white large spot at chest, he has black stripes and black rear section of back.

Then there must be one more, I have heard cat walking when I have seen two, but I have not seen that one, I think that I must do the taming until I can get them captured, one by one with trap is difficult, they are too light for trap to set off. Two are observing me and coming a bit closer but they are bit unsure still, I told the farmer that it might take bit time until I can catch them all. Grey is probably best for barn cat as I can see him hiding really well and he seeks position where he can stalk large area without being spotted.

Black one is perhaps coming to be good pet as he is most curious of two I have seen, Brownie is of course ready made pet, would not be good barn cat as he would be constantly crying for indoors. Also Brownie is a poor hunter, he was starving when I found him bit over week ago.

Kittens have made my warehouse to be their new home or at least they seem to be there rather often.

Stefan, here drowning is illegal method of ending life of cat, it is considered inhumane as it is not instant kill. Only two ways exists, registered hunter shooting into brain or vet.

I can have brownie, and all the others except for one that I can choose, this was last what we did agree on and I'm working very hard to get all of them captured, but is not very easy task.

During the day I have to go work to 140km away, then back at evening and feeding kittens at warehouse, own cats and trying to trap kittens and still try to build trust to them, trap is not in warehouse, that is so they would not so easily connect me to trap, but I don't know how things will end, it might take bit longer than I wish.

Black one is perhaps first one to go into trap, grey is bit more reserved and that one other I have not seen, only heard. I did hear again one at other end of warehouse while two was at other end, hopefully vibes will work and trap will work perfectly tonight, also can't keep trap out all night, temperatures are going near sub zero temps at night time here. Car has warm motor and I did put trap at front of car, put also some covering so it should be bit warmer than surroundings for little time now.

I don't know how much patience farmer has, if capturing takes too long, I'm afraid he takes Brownie and leaves me with others, it is not good way because nature of Brownie, he is not a hunter and farmer might dispose useless hunter.

Black one decided it is ok to come by and sniff my finger, smell did scare him a bit, even my finger was covered in fish, grey one also came to reach of my hand, so it is only day or two I think as these are not feral kittens, just strays, they probably will come around when they find out there is regular food and giant is actually something similar they might have nice memories of, maybe it will come alright, I do hope so. Again I could hear 3rd one, but impossible to see, even these two are hideous, takes bit time until they come to look at me from distance so that I can see them.

I also have the trap set and armed, so might get one really soon, if I'm lucky two of them will go into trap at once.

He should, I must phone tomorrow and I hope to catch grey one today, yesterday there was no success.

Black one sniffed from my finger yesterday, today he was not quite so brave, but still came to arm reach, they are curious, but scared. Again I did hear third one, but never saw that, I saw how brown and grey did look to third one, but never saw it, unless there is two grey ones.

I don't know how much such kittens really should eat, but over 100 grams of dry food and 800 grams of fish disappears every day, nights are bit cold of course, but it is quite a lot, imo, even for three.

There might be even more of them, or maybe they have adult feral with them, also some other feral might visit there.

I was at business trip two weeks after discovering brownie, poor brothers and sisters of brownie had been that time alone, did not see them when I filled food between the weeks, but food had disappeared, last week as I returned I did notice someone had eaten partly paper plate I had put some food, I feel bad that I did not put more food for there, but then again I had no idea that there were several in need, I did doubled the usual amount, but it had not been enough.

Currently I'm bringing them food at the morning and at the evening, during evening they come to eat a bit when I'm around, but at the morning they hide a bit. Quite difference from brownie, but then again he was taken inside in a cage and fed there, also he saw me petting Miuku.

I wish that things would have gone that way, but yesterday farmer had decided to get brownie from shelter, he prefers to have that one instead now and there is not much to do about it, but they do love cats, they have many of them so it might be okay that he is with them as they are making him to be outdoor cat he has chance to come back if he likes to.

So it is now with black and grey one that are here, actually I don't know exact location of black one, he decided to come in from cat door that will only let in, not out, but he got bit spooked and I have not seen him after that, but there really is no chances that he would of escaped, he is just so small that can find good hiding places, so I set traps indoors now.

Grey one I trapped from outside last evening, he is now at bathroom and I can pet him, but he is not really asking being pet, however does not resist it either, he is so scared that he is moving very slowly and trying to be invisible.

Mother of kitten is not dead, disposing was not successful then, I guess as farmer did ask if I have seen her, so I have to do trapping outdoors too, mother might be injured and around warehouse somewhere, I must try and find her.

So there is not much to add to this thread as brownie is not coming back after all.

I find it bit odd that farmer don't know when kittens were born, never had seen them, but thinks kittens are born at spring and also that his cat has made them, suspicious, imo. However there is again nothing else to do or say about it.