I'm usually pretty good with ferals, but I'm in a new situation here and hoping you guys have some ideas.
Theres a new kitty hanging around who has been eating out of my garbage can. I don't bother him... let him eat... because he is just absolutely scrawny and looks like he could use a few good meals. I figure the least I can do is let him munch on my scraps. (There's nothing in the garbage that can hurt him... its just a bag of food scraps.)
But really, I just want to get some food in the poor guy. With the ferals I fed in NY, I just put food out for them at the back door because we didn't have a population of other wild animals in the neighborhood. Where I live now, if I put food out, I'd have a zoo of wildlife at my door in a matter of minutes. I've been trying to make friends with this little guy... whenever I go outside I talk to him while he ducks down in the grass and watches me... but I know if he ever trusts me at all its going to take a while. So at this point if I put food out while I was watching the dish, I don't think he'd come eat out of it.
Has anyone come up with a way to feed a feral without attracting every possum/raccoon/rat/etc within a 50 mile radius?
I've considered trapping him, but I don't have the money to neuter him at the moment and if I turned him over to animal control, he'd be automatically put down because he is not people friendly. I can't bring myself to do that to him
Right now, I just want to get him fed a bit and consider trapping/shelter or TNR later... to trap or not to trap is not my main goal in this yet.
Thoughts?
Theres a new kitty hanging around who has been eating out of my garbage can. I don't bother him... let him eat... because he is just absolutely scrawny and looks like he could use a few good meals. I figure the least I can do is let him munch on my scraps. (There's nothing in the garbage that can hurt him... its just a bag of food scraps.)
But really, I just want to get some food in the poor guy. With the ferals I fed in NY, I just put food out for them at the back door because we didn't have a population of other wild animals in the neighborhood. Where I live now, if I put food out, I'd have a zoo of wildlife at my door in a matter of minutes. I've been trying to make friends with this little guy... whenever I go outside I talk to him while he ducks down in the grass and watches me... but I know if he ever trusts me at all its going to take a while. So at this point if I put food out while I was watching the dish, I don't think he'd come eat out of it.
Has anyone come up with a way to feed a feral without attracting every possum/raccoon/rat/etc within a 50 mile radius?
I've considered trapping him, but I don't have the money to neuter him at the moment and if I turned him over to animal control, he'd be automatically put down because he is not people friendly. I can't bring myself to do that to him
Thoughts?