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In October, I adopted a 4- or 5-month old kitten from a local cat rescue that got her from a TNR organization. The rescue told me that they sometimes exchange cats with the TNR organization (giving them feral/unadoptable cats and taking adoptable ones), but they didn't know any more about my kitty's background. They turned her over to me as a foster-to-adopt the same day they got her.
She was immediately confident and cuddly, exiting the carrier right away to explore her safe room and then crawling into my arms within 10 minutes, repeatedly climbing my chest to rub her cheek against mine (photo is from her first night home). Vets love her because she's sweet and easy. She displays no food insecurity, leaving food uneaten when she's not hungry. She is very good at bite/claw inhibition. She's only broken my skin once (and I brought it on myself). She came to me with a URI, tapeworms, and giardia.
Is it really possible that she was once a feral kitty? I emailed the TNR organization to try to find more about her background but haven't heard back. If anyone has any speculation, I would be really interested, because she seems so well socialized to humans and also like she spent a decent time with mom. Any educated guesses how a kitty like her might have come to a TNR organization? I assume if she had come from a litter under their care, she would not have been adopted out alone.
She was immediately confident and cuddly, exiting the carrier right away to explore her safe room and then crawling into my arms within 10 minutes, repeatedly climbing my chest to rub her cheek against mine (photo is from her first night home). Vets love her because she's sweet and easy. She displays no food insecurity, leaving food uneaten when she's not hungry. She is very good at bite/claw inhibition. She's only broken my skin once (and I brought it on myself). She came to me with a URI, tapeworms, and giardia.
Is it really possible that she was once a feral kitty? I emailed the TNR organization to try to find more about her background but haven't heard back. If anyone has any speculation, I would be really interested, because she seems so well socialized to humans and also like she spent a decent time with mom. Any educated guesses how a kitty like her might have come to a TNR organization? I assume if she had come from a litter under their care, she would not have been adopted out alone.
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