hi
Thanks for reading. I registered here because I am having some trouble with my kitty and her new kitten.
Here is a brief backstory. I adopted a stray that started coming around. her name is Smokey. She was pregnant when she started coming around, but it must have been her first litter because she was really small. so small that we didn't realize how soon she was due, and she ended up giving birth in my bed while I was outside smoking a cigarette. She is an outside cat, been outside all her life until I started letting her come inside.
She had two kittens, one was really small and weak, and it did not make it. the one that survived is healthy and just starting to open his eyes. Since she was a wild cat and I didn't know how she'd react, I just let her stay on my bed (with my favorite blanket that she ruined heh) for a couple days and crashed on the couch. she finally moved her kitten (named Bender) down by the side of my bed, and I made her a bed with a box and the blanket.
She seemed alright with this setup at first, but the past couple of days she has been picking up little bender and trying to carry him out the window I let her come and go from. It got really bad today. There's several alley cats that hang around outside the house all the time, one is probably bender's father, and a couple are probably from the same litter as Smokey. Could their presence nearby be making Smokey want to carry Bender outside and take him somewhere out of their territory? I just don't think he'd survive long out there with them around, not to mention its going to get cold soon, plus I'd like to keep him...
I just don't know what to do. I want to do whats best for them both. How can I train her not to try and carry him off and to leave him in his box? Can anyone help me out with this problem? I'd really appreciate it, and so would Smokey and Bender.
Thank you,
Dam0cles
Thanks for reading. I registered here because I am having some trouble with my kitty and her new kitten.
Here is a brief backstory. I adopted a stray that started coming around. her name is Smokey. She was pregnant when she started coming around, but it must have been her first litter because she was really small. so small that we didn't realize how soon she was due, and she ended up giving birth in my bed while I was outside smoking a cigarette. She is an outside cat, been outside all her life until I started letting her come inside.
She had two kittens, one was really small and weak, and it did not make it. the one that survived is healthy and just starting to open his eyes. Since she was a wild cat and I didn't know how she'd react, I just let her stay on my bed (with my favorite blanket that she ruined heh) for a couple days and crashed on the couch. she finally moved her kitten (named Bender) down by the side of my bed, and I made her a bed with a box and the blanket.
She seemed alright with this setup at first, but the past couple of days she has been picking up little bender and trying to carry him out the window I let her come and go from. It got really bad today. There's several alley cats that hang around outside the house all the time, one is probably bender's father, and a couple are probably from the same litter as Smokey. Could their presence nearby be making Smokey want to carry Bender outside and take him somewhere out of their territory? I just don't think he'd survive long out there with them around, not to mention its going to get cold soon, plus I'd like to keep him...
I just don't know what to do. I want to do whats best for them both. How can I train her not to try and carry him off and to leave him in his box? Can anyone help me out with this problem? I'd really appreciate it, and so would Smokey and Bender.
Thank you,
Dam0cles