Yesterday I found a mama cat had 2 kittens in our storage building at work, mama always goes in under the gap in the door. I check on them because she had them on top of a door way 8 feet high. I am really afraid they are going to fall. She was up there with them this morning feeding them, when I checked a few hours later the mom and 1 of the kittens was gone. I know she is probably scared because she will never come to us, and lives under the porch across the alley. Maybe she is moving the kittens, which is what I am hoping. If then mama isn't back in the morning should I move the kitten???
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Feral Kittens
- Thread starter ladonna
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Are you willing to take care of it? Not easy, but can be done... There are good sites about caring about orphans.
The chances are big the momma moves them, like they quite often do. And they move them one at a time, of course.
So you do right, dont touch the kitten as yet,mom will fetch it with 98%. (touching not so dangerous as they say, but why risk anything with a very shy, feral mom, who dont see you yet as her friend. Or are you reguraltly giving food to the mom??).
But if the kitten isnt fetched several hours later, it is probably abandoned...
And you helping it is its only chance.
The kitten may be sick and dying anyway. Yet, with human help may survive.
I have even read about a true case, when a young woman took care of such a abandoned kitten. Helped it through the crisis... And the cat mom fetched the kitten two days later... Surely unusual, but it did happen...
Tx for caring!
Good luck!
The chances are big the momma moves them, like they quite often do. And they move them one at a time, of course.
So you do right, dont touch the kitten as yet,mom will fetch it with 98%. (touching not so dangerous as they say, but why risk anything with a very shy, feral mom, who dont see you yet as her friend. Or are you reguraltly giving food to the mom??).
But if the kitten isnt fetched several hours later, it is probably abandoned...
And you helping it is its only chance.
The kitten may be sick and dying anyway. Yet, with human help may survive.
I have even read about a true case, when a young woman took care of such a abandoned kitten. Helped it through the crisis... And the cat mom fetched the kitten two days later... Surely unusual, but it did happen...
Tx for caring!
Good luck!
IF you are willing to take care of an orphan, you do have several hours to wait IF the mom fetches it.
After it it will be a hurry, as the kitten is hungry.
Use the time for gathering what you need. Goat milk or a good kmr, bottle, naps, dropper... dextrose sugar (=glucose), or honey, and so on.
Begin to read on. You do have articles here on our Forum.
Good if you have a kitchen/mails scale weighting in grammes. Easiest with electronical one... Borrow or buy a cheap one.
Good luck!
ps. as said, dont move the kitten if not necessary. If the mom fetch it, she will fetch it best where it is.
Unnecessary to risk anything.
Unless you have strong reason mom cant manage to jump down with the kitten in mouth.
After it it will be a hurry, as the kitten is hungry.
Use the time for gathering what you need. Goat milk or a good kmr, bottle, naps, dropper... dextrose sugar (=glucose), or honey, and so on.
Begin to read on. You do have articles here on our Forum.
Good if you have a kitchen/mails scale weighting in grammes. Easiest with electronical one... Borrow or buy a cheap one.
Good luck!
ps. as said, dont move the kitten if not necessary. If the mom fetch it, she will fetch it best where it is.
Unnecessary to risk anything.
Unless you have strong reason mom cant manage to jump down with the kitten in mouth.
