Feral Kitten NEED HELP

 A kitten wondered into my place of work about 2 months ago. She was wounded and had clearly been attacked by another animal, so I took her home with me. The vet estimated her at the time to be about 8 weeks old. She spent the first week or so in a crate, with her litter and food / water.. she'd allow me to take her out and only scratched me occasionally if one of the other cats was around, or the dog.

  I eventually decided to incorporate her into home life and let her out, since she had been doing pretty well. I haven't caught her since. She exists in my home and I can't get within 10 feet of her. She loves my other two cats and even the dog but humans are a definite no go with her. She has gotten curious with me, usually at night if she thinks I'm sleeping... I've woken up to her inches from my face just laying next to me but as soon as I wake up she darts.

 I think she has a lot of potential and I'm willing to do whatever it takes, I just have ZERO experience with feral kittens/cats. I also really need to get her to the vet for her shots soon since at the time she was entirely too sick to start them.

ANY ADVICE WOULD BE GREAT ! THANKS ! (:

Here's a picture of Rota (new kitten) with the whole crew !

DenaMarieB said:

 She has gotten curious with me, usually at night if she thinks I'm sleeping... I've woken up to her inches from my face just laying next to me

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This sounds very promising.

So. Make sure she sees when you are co-acting with your residents. Make sure she sees when you come with the food, to her and the residents.   Talk a lot to her in a friendly, soft voice.  Friendly noises is a natural language for cats.

Sit or even lay down near her, and for example read.  Read for yourself or read aloud.

Dont look directly at her, and dont strech your hand to her - home cats are used with this, even part of their domestication,  but for ferales its threating gestures.

Yawn a lot, and strech on yourself standing on all fours = friendly gestures in the cat world.

After a while, a couple of useful tricks is to brush her with a comb, long, soft but still decisive brushings over the whole body.  

Another trick is to wrap her up in a soft towel, and carry her at your chest, making friendly noises.  A good while, as long as she doesnt protest too much...

But these both tricks may come firstly when she comes to you, its a little too early for them.   This with wrapping you could have done when you had her in the cage, but no point to be sorry about it now...

Tx for caring!

Good luck!