Greetings,
I am new to this forum and anxiously read many of your posts. Yesterday I took a 1.5-year-old feral female inside. She was fixed in July (a rescue group convinced me to trap/fix and release her) and had been coming around since. A few of us were feeding her and some of her siblings. Four other siblings had been trapped but someone opened the cages and let them go.
But that's a story for later.
Princess began allowing me to pet her about two months ago. She would come running when I opened my back door and linger for hours in the evening, sleeping in her little shelter.
The management here grew tired of the cat problem and said they won't wait for volunteers to begin trapping in spring. They called animal control and the traps are going out tomorrow.
I got Princess into a carrier last night, put her into her own room in the carrier and off to the Vet this morning. SHE TESTED NEGATIVE again and was given dewormer.
I have returned her to her room with food, a litter box and a bed. She quickly disappeared under a desk.
I've read she should be kept alone in the room for about 10 days but I am not sure not to introduce her to my two male cats, ages 7 and 14. Both are very sweet. The younger one is a bit skittish about new cats (he hisses at the strays when they sit on the window ledge.)
Looking forward to your advice.
We are trying to desperately find homes for the other six but getting nos and the rescue groups say they have too many "adoptable" cats. Even tried the North Shore (a woman associated with them lives here when she is in town tending to her business). She says North Shore (in NY) has more than 100 cats already.
I am new to this forum and anxiously read many of your posts. Yesterday I took a 1.5-year-old feral female inside. She was fixed in July (a rescue group convinced me to trap/fix and release her) and had been coming around since. A few of us were feeding her and some of her siblings. Four other siblings had been trapped but someone opened the cages and let them go.
But that's a story for later.
Princess began allowing me to pet her about two months ago. She would come running when I opened my back door and linger for hours in the evening, sleeping in her little shelter.
The management here grew tired of the cat problem and said they won't wait for volunteers to begin trapping in spring. They called animal control and the traps are going out tomorrow.
I got Princess into a carrier last night, put her into her own room in the carrier and off to the Vet this morning. SHE TESTED NEGATIVE again and was given dewormer.
I have returned her to her room with food, a litter box and a bed. She quickly disappeared under a desk.
I've read she should be kept alone in the room for about 10 days but I am not sure not to introduce her to my two male cats, ages 7 and 14. Both are very sweet. The younger one is a bit skittish about new cats (he hisses at the strays when they sit on the window ledge.)
Looking forward to your advice.
We are trying to desperately find homes for the other six but getting nos and the rescue groups say they have too many "adoptable" cats. Even tried the North Shore (a woman associated with them lives here when she is in town tending to her business). She says North Shore (in NY) has more than 100 cats already.