Seems as though I did not latch the cage door completely (it was a tricky one) and the mother cat took off. She hung around and I TRIED using her babies to trick her into going inside a crate. She heard them calling her and she called back but she wouldn't come near...
She was friendly and all in her previous home but since she doesn't know me she won't willingly come up to me. Now I have these four 2-3 week old babies to feed. Some of them do alright lapping up mushy dry food soaked in water. One latches onto the bottle pretty well, but the other just doesn't want anything to do with any of this.
I feel so bad! I have the trap set out with a fresh can of wet food and a towel over the trap but I am not hopeful that she will come. It is too cold to leave her babies outside as bait. She saw where I went and where her babies went to, but since she has never been in or to my house or surrounding area, I don't think she will know to come looking for them. I don't even know where she might be hiding, considering she doesn't know the area.
I was thinking too that bottle babies are such a pain and luckily I have the mother to do all the work, and not 10 minutes after thinking that, she is gone.
She was friendly and all in her previous home but since she doesn't know me she won't willingly come up to me. Now I have these four 2-3 week old babies to feed. Some of them do alright lapping up mushy dry food soaked in water. One latches onto the bottle pretty well, but the other just doesn't want anything to do with any of this.
I feel so bad! I have the trap set out with a fresh can of wet food and a towel over the trap but I am not hopeful that she will come. It is too cold to leave her babies outside as bait. She saw where I went and where her babies went to, but since she has never been in or to my house or surrounding area, I don't think she will know to come looking for them. I don't even know where she might be hiding, considering she doesn't know the area.
I was thinking too that bottle babies are such a pain and luckily I have the mother to do all the work, and not 10 minutes after thinking that, she is gone.