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A friend found a mama cat and three kittens in the grill of a truck. They took the cats in and housed them in a garage in a large dog crate. The kittens were only a week or so old. The mama cat allowed them to take her and the kittens in, feed them, etc. She also allowed children to handle her kittens after a couple weeks. We were also told that she'd sometimes rub against the leg of one or two of the people feeding them a few weeks after that.
Based on this feedback, we decided we'd take the mama cat since it'd be harder to find her a home.
Unfortunately, when we went to get her she had been let loose in the garage again so she'd kind of reverted a bit to her wild ways. We were able to eventually get her and bring her home. That was two weeks ago.
Once we got her home we initially allowed her freedom around the house for a couple days. She'd hide very, very cleverly around the house and roam at night. She definitely did not like anyone getting near her. I did a bit of research and found sites that said it'd be better to give her her own room. Our house isn't very big so we don't have a lot of options and the room she's in is a small bathroom. Unfortunately, we had to kind of herd her into the room.
Before going into the room we knock softly, make a very distinct sound we're hoping she'll come to associate with good things and feed her at regular intervals. We did that for about a week and now I've moved on to sitting in the room when I can for about 20-30 minutes. Like I said, though, the room isn't very big so it's hard to be in there comfortably and I don't see how we'd be able to move forward to the next steps I've read about where she "might" come out and at least eat while I'm still in the room. Only twice I've gone in and she hasn't booked it to the cardboard box we've put in there.
We really want this to work, but now we're worried that we didn't set her up in the right place. So now we're considering making the room we keep her in our bedroom. The only thing with that is I worry she might tear up our clothes in the closet or that there might be too much activity. The activity would be normal things like going to bed, watching TV, getting up for work - not necessarily a lot during the day, just in the morning and at night.
Plus we'd have to get her there from the bathroom - definitely putting us back some steps. The bathroom really probably is too small and I'm sure she's feeling very cooped up at this point. I mean, it's been two weeks!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any advice would be sincerely appreciated!
A friend found a mama cat and three kittens in the grill of a truck. They took the cats in and housed them in a garage in a large dog crate. The kittens were only a week or so old. The mama cat allowed them to take her and the kittens in, feed them, etc. She also allowed children to handle her kittens after a couple weeks. We were also told that she'd sometimes rub against the leg of one or two of the people feeding them a few weeks after that.
Based on this feedback, we decided we'd take the mama cat since it'd be harder to find her a home.
Unfortunately, when we went to get her she had been let loose in the garage again so she'd kind of reverted a bit to her wild ways. We were able to eventually get her and bring her home. That was two weeks ago.
Once we got her home we initially allowed her freedom around the house for a couple days. She'd hide very, very cleverly around the house and roam at night. She definitely did not like anyone getting near her. I did a bit of research and found sites that said it'd be better to give her her own room. Our house isn't very big so we don't have a lot of options and the room she's in is a small bathroom. Unfortunately, we had to kind of herd her into the room.
Before going into the room we knock softly, make a very distinct sound we're hoping she'll come to associate with good things and feed her at regular intervals. We did that for about a week and now I've moved on to sitting in the room when I can for about 20-30 minutes. Like I said, though, the room isn't very big so it's hard to be in there comfortably and I don't see how we'd be able to move forward to the next steps I've read about where she "might" come out and at least eat while I'm still in the room. Only twice I've gone in and she hasn't booked it to the cardboard box we've put in there.
We really want this to work, but now we're worried that we didn't set her up in the right place. So now we're considering making the room we keep her in our bedroom. The only thing with that is I worry she might tear up our clothes in the closet or that there might be too much activity. The activity would be normal things like going to bed, watching TV, getting up for work - not necessarily a lot during the day, just in the morning and at night.
Plus we'd have to get her there from the bathroom - definitely putting us back some steps. The bathroom really probably is too small and I'm sure she's feeling very cooped up at this point. I mean, it's been two weeks!
Thank you for taking the time to read this and any advice would be sincerely appreciated!
