Hello,
There is a mother feral who started bringing her 2 kittens around to our porch where I hide food and water. Sometimes they sleep on the porch during the night or part of the day. The mom is not friendly and has charged towards me and hissed when she thought I might grab her babies (I only lingered there to take a picture, didn’t get close, but she still charged).
Since that time I leave them alone. But today I got home and saw the 2 kittens sitting on my neighbor’s porch. One kitten ran away so it must have seen me, but I think one eye is glued shut. The other kitten definitely has both eyes glued shut and cannot see. It only moved away when it heard me.
What should I do to trap these kittens, and even the mom? I honestly haven’t been involved in trapping for almost a year and a half when a nearby feral got sick and I could never trap her, and I had to watch her slowly painfully die unable to help her.
I have a lot of traps and even 2 kitten sized traps. If the kittens are blind, how will they see it to go inside? I believe they are still drinking milk from the mom at least some of the time because I’ve seen it on the camera. I’m not sure if they are eating solid food. I’m also worried about catching them and not the mom and her being distraught and trying to attack me when I go out there. I hate to see them scared. The kittens are probably 5-6 weeks old.
I also live in an area with an HOA that is not supportive so I can’t leave traps and things out anywhere. I will basically be doing this from my porch and only in the dark...when people aren’t out walking. I can’t do this until Friday night/the weekend. I honestly wasn’t planning to try trapping until they’re grown up. But if the eye infection can be treated and save their vision that would be ideal...
There is a mother feral who started bringing her 2 kittens around to our porch where I hide food and water. Sometimes they sleep on the porch during the night or part of the day. The mom is not friendly and has charged towards me and hissed when she thought I might grab her babies (I only lingered there to take a picture, didn’t get close, but she still charged).
Since that time I leave them alone. But today I got home and saw the 2 kittens sitting on my neighbor’s porch. One kitten ran away so it must have seen me, but I think one eye is glued shut. The other kitten definitely has both eyes glued shut and cannot see. It only moved away when it heard me.
What should I do to trap these kittens, and even the mom? I honestly haven’t been involved in trapping for almost a year and a half when a nearby feral got sick and I could never trap her, and I had to watch her slowly painfully die unable to help her.
I have a lot of traps and even 2 kitten sized traps. If the kittens are blind, how will they see it to go inside? I believe they are still drinking milk from the mom at least some of the time because I’ve seen it on the camera. I’m not sure if they are eating solid food. I’m also worried about catching them and not the mom and her being distraught and trying to attack me when I go out there. I hate to see them scared. The kittens are probably 5-6 weeks old.
I also live in an area with an HOA that is not supportive so I can’t leave traps and things out anywhere. I will basically be doing this from my porch and only in the dark...when people aren’t out walking. I can’t do this until Friday night/the weekend. I honestly wasn’t planning to try trapping until they’re grown up. But if the eye infection can be treated and save their vision that would be ideal...