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In September 2022 I found a stray kitten living in a busy parking lot. I started bringing it food in hopes of catching it. It would get pretty close to me - seemed curious so I assumed it had been dumped. I took my cat trap out there and managed to catch a kitten but not the one I was looking for. The one I caught looked very similar to the other so I assumed they were litter mates. I had no plans of keeping them but wanted to get them to a safe place so I contacted the local shelter to see if they had options. They told me they would take them and if they were too wild, they had contacts with barn rescues. So I kept the kitten in a bathroom in my house and spent the next week plus trying to catch the original kitten I had spotted. Thought it was a lost cause but I finally got her to go in the trap. Contacted the shelter who told me that the person I had originally spoken with was incorrect and that they would likely be euthanized. I didn't spend all that effort just to have them killed so I kept them, got them vaccinated and spayed/neutered. I also found out that they are not litter mates - the male was about 6 months old and the female was about 5 months. After a while, and a little help from my daughter's cat, I finally got them to relax enough to allow me to pet them some. Unfortunately they haven't decompressed any, my daughter moved out and took the kitten whisperer cat with her, my 2 other cats don't like the kittens, and my 2 dogs have tried to attack them many times. I have them living in my daughter's old room but really feel like I am doing them a huge disservice in keeping them. They are allowed to roam the house when the dogs are away but I think they end up staying in the room most of the time. They both are visibly stressed anytime I enter the room and I can't imagine it would be much of a life for them to be confined to this room. I don't want to have them put down, all the rescue groups I know are overrun, and I don't want to toss them back outside. Does anyone have any suggestions?