ohiogoatgirl
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No I don't have pics yet :roll: But I have three black kittens about a month old.
Long story short there was a bit of a feral cat depopulation happen here the other day. We made sure not to get the few that we knew had litters recently and the one female that could possibly be pregnant. With the porch no longer being run by the feral cat gang apparently the one mom decided it would be good to move her litter there.
Dad heard them as he was heading out to check the boiler (which is being shut down for the year tomorrow, thank heaven!). So off I go with a flashlight to traverse the jungle of crap that is the porch. IE: dad ends up piling lots of his crap there and somewhere in there was kittens mewing loudly.
I managed to get to the old crate where the kittens were without injuring myself. Even wrangled them and got back to the door without injury! Not a bet I would have made :roll:
So now I have three kittens that are plenty fat. I am actually surprised at how well they are. the mother definitely had to run off and get bred by a roaming male. The farm feral cats here have a few colors we tend to get and that's it, black isn't one of them. That combined with their decent size and health sets it for me. 'Our' farm feral cats are pretty well inbred and are all little midget-y things that are always thin and no one would guess even the biggest one to be more than a year old. And they would probably say a small underfed year old at best.
Sooo... Now I get the lovely process of getting these little guys on solid food.
If anyone has any good tips for me I would appreciate them. This is the most annoying part of raising kittens and I always have problems with it. But its a lot better to wrangle them and do this by hand and get rid of tame kittens than have more, inbred, feral, unhealthy cats that need 'depopulated' later on.
Long story short there was a bit of a feral cat depopulation happen here the other day. We made sure not to get the few that we knew had litters recently and the one female that could possibly be pregnant. With the porch no longer being run by the feral cat gang apparently the one mom decided it would be good to move her litter there.
Dad heard them as he was heading out to check the boiler (which is being shut down for the year tomorrow, thank heaven!). So off I go with a flashlight to traverse the jungle of crap that is the porch. IE: dad ends up piling lots of his crap there and somewhere in there was kittens mewing loudly.
I managed to get to the old crate where the kittens were without injuring myself. Even wrangled them and got back to the door without injury! Not a bet I would have made :roll:
So now I have three kittens that are plenty fat. I am actually surprised at how well they are. the mother definitely had to run off and get bred by a roaming male. The farm feral cats here have a few colors we tend to get and that's it, black isn't one of them. That combined with their decent size and health sets it for me. 'Our' farm feral cats are pretty well inbred and are all little midget-y things that are always thin and no one would guess even the biggest one to be more than a year old. And they would probably say a small underfed year old at best.
Sooo... Now I get the lovely process of getting these little guys on solid food.
If anyone has any good tips for me I would appreciate them. This is the most annoying part of raising kittens and I always have problems with it. But its a lot better to wrangle them and do this by hand and get rid of tame kittens than have more, inbred, feral, unhealthy cats that need 'depopulated' later on.