8 inside:
1 is one I've had for 6 years and was not at all feral.
5 were feral kittens
2 would have been if I hadn't gotten them very early
Have 4 outside:
2 are stray tom cats(now neutered)
1 is neighbor's neutered cat but he stays here and goes in/out
1 is a feral I caught at around 1 year old(she is littermate to 2 of the one's I have inside).I got her spayed and let her go back out.She does pretty good about letting me pet her.She comes up to me and meows.She just don't like to be picked up at all.
I have about 15 cats right now....way too many for living in town! I couldn't catch the mama's before they got pregnant, so now I have lots of cats...but they are all needed/wanted somewhere, so that's good. Our "regulars" are Shorty (inside/outside), Rascal outside, Pepe outside and Zeb outside. Plus all the kitties (about 4 months old now)....so Pepe and Zeb are getting caught and taken to the vet...hopefully before Christmas!!! No more kitties! As nice as they are, it's just way too many!
My feral kitty has been moved with me twice, and has been faithfully hanging around the porch for about 7 years now, but is still scared to come indoors.
Tess, how did you move the feral with you? That's so great that you took him with you. I'm just curious about how he oriented himself in the new territory. I guess he didn't try to go back to the old place, even though his instincts probably told him to. I have a couple of ferals I feed, and wonder what I'd do if I had to move.
Actually, thinking back on how it was done, I realized I've only moved her once - sorry for the mistake.
I put her in the garage & kept her inside there for a week. She wasn't too happy about it, but I needed to be sure she wouldn't run away & get lost. I fed her canned food (she usually gets dry, so that was a treat) in a few bowls around the garage, along with her regular bowl of dry, and didn't clean one of her litter boxes during the last few days she was closed in the garage. I used a really fine-grained litter & put some leaves on top so it wouldn't seem too strange to use a litterbox. Then, right before letting her out of the garage on a really nice day, I put the bowls of food outside (I hadn't washed them for a few days so they would smell familiar) - one on the porch where I planned to feed her, one on each side of the house, and one near the back door. Then I scattered some poop from her litterbox in various hiding places around the yard near the house. Sounds disgusting, but I wanted her to know that this was her new place. I made sure to stay home on the day I let her out, so I could hang around outside & make sure she knew I was there. I was really afraid she would leave, but she didn't!
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She also had a little cuddler bed she liked on the porch at the apartment - I brought it (unwashed of course) and put it in the bushes under the overhang of the new porch for her, next to her food & water bowls.