I am kind of baffled by this case. I have been rescuing cats for 4-5 years, and know how a stray cat behaves vs a feral one, but I don't know what to do.
So I live in a closed street, and there are a couple of feral cats living near, since there is a lot of tall grass ans such. For the last couple of years, one of these cats, a white male, has been coming to my yard, so we put him some food. Somehow he was accepted by my cats, who sometimes go outside to the backyard,to the point that they are really affective.
So far it is a normal feral cat on my yard case, but since last year, the cat literally lives inside my house. He spends sometime outside, but mostly, he is on my kitchen. He sleeps on my stairs, feeds inside, sometimea meows and goea upstairs, but he is still really wild, doesn't let himself be trapped (always has a way out), doesn't like if we get close, even with food and is still really hyperaware of where we are and what we are doing.
My house is really open so it's been impossible trapping him. He knows how to open windows too so its not like we can trap him for long. Its been a long "domestication" try, but even if he is more relaxed, he is still really skittish and scared.
Im kind of afraid for him, since lately he has developed some kind of skin condition on his ears, and has scars and injuries from fights. I don't know what to do. I have not been able to neuter him, even though I managed to catch 3 other cats from my street.
In short, a feral cat lives inside my house and we can't trap him or make him a housecat. Anyone had a case like this?
So I live in a closed street, and there are a couple of feral cats living near, since there is a lot of tall grass ans such. For the last couple of years, one of these cats, a white male, has been coming to my yard, so we put him some food. Somehow he was accepted by my cats, who sometimes go outside to the backyard,to the point that they are really affective.
So far it is a normal feral cat on my yard case, but since last year, the cat literally lives inside my house. He spends sometime outside, but mostly, he is on my kitchen. He sleeps on my stairs, feeds inside, sometimea meows and goea upstairs, but he is still really wild, doesn't let himself be trapped (always has a way out), doesn't like if we get close, even with food and is still really hyperaware of where we are and what we are doing.
My house is really open so it's been impossible trapping him. He knows how to open windows too so its not like we can trap him for long. Its been a long "domestication" try, but even if he is more relaxed, he is still really skittish and scared.
Im kind of afraid for him, since lately he has developed some kind of skin condition on his ears, and has scars and injuries from fights. I don't know what to do. I have not been able to neuter him, even though I managed to catch 3 other cats from my street.
In short, a feral cat lives inside my house and we can't trap him or make him a housecat. Anyone had a case like this?
