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Hi All,
My wife and I have, after much anxiety and painfully learned lessons, successfully TNR'ed three kitten siblings that showed up to our back deck early last spring. We've had in place for a while now two cooler-type shelters and an outdoor feeder and waterer. Now a year old, they are slowly becoming more trusting of us. One of the two females has become trusting enough that yesterday, for the first time ever, she has allowed us to pet her. In fact, the more we pet her, the more she seems to enjoy it and reciprocally does her head bumps, and cheek rubs; rather strongly at times, and does little nibbles of our hands. It's quite adorable.
Am I correct in thinking that we ought not to allow our three indoor-only cats to mingle directly with our outdoor cats? Our indoor cats DO have limited contact with the outdoor cats via a screened-in window box, like a small catio, that our indoor cats can enter to be "outside." The outdoor cats often lounge on top of this window box and play with our indoor cats through the screens on the window box. My main concern is feline HIV. I don't know if the outdoor cats have that, but I know that our indoor cats have tested negative for it.
Thanks for any advice!
My wife and I have, after much anxiety and painfully learned lessons, successfully TNR'ed three kitten siblings that showed up to our back deck early last spring. We've had in place for a while now two cooler-type shelters and an outdoor feeder and waterer. Now a year old, they are slowly becoming more trusting of us. One of the two females has become trusting enough that yesterday, for the first time ever, she has allowed us to pet her. In fact, the more we pet her, the more she seems to enjoy it and reciprocally does her head bumps, and cheek rubs; rather strongly at times, and does little nibbles of our hands. It's quite adorable.
Am I correct in thinking that we ought not to allow our three indoor-only cats to mingle directly with our outdoor cats? Our indoor cats DO have limited contact with the outdoor cats via a screened-in window box, like a small catio, that our indoor cats can enter to be "outside." The outdoor cats often lounge on top of this window box and play with our indoor cats through the screens on the window box. My main concern is feline HIV. I don't know if the outdoor cats have that, but I know that our indoor cats have tested negative for it.
Thanks for any advice!