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Found 3 little cuties in my backyard and 1 escaped. Probably should have left them alone but they are cute and I don't want a fox to eat them. One is Siamese colored but longer hair. Seems as they are ok with dry food.
RCCrawler
05-06-2015, 16:34
Flush 'em down the toilet.
Is there any sign of the mother? How old are they? How big? Don't give them dry food. You need canned kitten food, and maybe even milk safe for kittens. It's expensive and takes a lot of time to raise babies; you may want to bring them to a no kill shelter. Dry food will not help them.
Is there any sign of the mother? How old are they? How big? Don't give them dry food. You need canned kitten food, and maybe even milk safe for kittens. It's expensive to raise babies; you may want to brig them to a no kill shelter. Dry food will not help them.
I believe they are around 8+ weeks old
Post free kittens on CL? Otherwise, I'd take them to a shelter.
No kill shelter so they get spayed, or neutered.
I'd bring them to a no-kill shelter if they were that old. There's no telling if they've been socialized, or if the mother has shown them everything kittens need to know. Otherwise, do you have tie and money to care for and raise two feral kittens?
UncleDave
05-06-2015, 16:46
At 8 weeks dry kitten food will work. All. Of the cats I have had over the years started out their lives as feral kittens, they are also the best mousers. I agree about the spaying or neutering, but don't do that until they are 6 months old or so. They will not develop correctly without the harmones in their adolescent growth period. There are long haired Siamese cats, I had one that was again a feral kitten. If you can care for them, keep them. If not then a shelter, or find a friend with kids and let the kids come overand play with them. They will be gone quick enough. [LOL]
At 8 weeks dry kitten food will work. All. Of the cats I have had over the years started out their lives as feral kittens, they are also the best mousers. I agree about the spaying or neutering, but don't do that until they are 6 months old or so. They will not develop correctly without the harmones in their adolescent growth period. There are long haired Siamese cats, I had one that was again a feral kitten. If you can care for them, keep them. If not then a shelter, or find a friend with kids and let the kids come overand play with them. They will be gone quick enough. [LOL]
I have more cats then I want now so I will not be keeping these. They are cute as hell though.
Have any neighbors? Maybe they had a litter and they just wandered off?
Flush 'em down the toilet.
Hey Chinese food first.
Great-Kazoo
05-06-2015, 17:08
Put them back where you found them. OR no kill for spay & neuter
wctriumph
05-06-2015, 17:12
You fed 'em, you got 'em! My wife caught a feral kitten and we still have it. Good with the other cats but otherwise is useless, can't pet it or anything. It just avoids the humans in the house.
If you find any feral animal, just leave it be and nature will take its course.
Mail them to some random person...
kidicarus13
05-06-2015, 17:21
Feral cats = wild animals. Nature will work itself out for better or worse.
Sorry, but I'm thinking burlap sack, rock, rain barrel. Thats how grandad in the old country would have handled it. Watched him do it a couple of times.
Farmers barn cats.
And for the sociopaths KMA.
jerrymrc
05-06-2015, 18:13
Pics. I may take one off your hands.[Flower]
Jeffrey Lebowski
05-06-2015, 18:19
http://foothillsanimalshelter.org
gnihcraes
05-06-2015, 19:24
cat care society over here by me sparky... a mile or so away from ya.
Daniel_187
05-06-2015, 19:32
Let that Vet from TX take care of it
Mail them to some random person...
I have 275RLTW (https://www.ar-15.co/members/3098-275RLTW) address if you need it.
Delfuego
05-06-2015, 20:05
They are cute as hell though.You big softy! I see more cats in your future...
Offer them to Bert. Every time I go by his place he has more animals.
SideShow Bob
05-06-2015, 20:19
Sparky,
you do know why it is called a CATapult don't you ?
Normally I'd say smoke em...but if they are feral, I have a farm they can go to and live wild killing mice and actually live a good life. Pm me if interested
BushMasterBoy
05-07-2015, 00:02
We have a feral barn cat. Rescued off the road as a kitten, he was hit by a car. Sleeps in the house at night. He can be petted, if you ask him first. Just be careful, he brings critters in the house. He hides from strangers.
Best coyote bait there is.
Put them in a cat carrier and suspend it from a tree limb.
Once they start fussing, the coyotes come running. Never in any real danger.
Or, I could use another mouser at our place in the mountains.
Our barn cats only eat food that's dry on the outside and wet in the middle.
GunsRBadMMMMKay
05-07-2015, 06:59
Our cat was a feral kitten from the animal shelter here......apparently they get lots of feral cats in Leadville. He was a little sketchy when we got him (when he got scared you could see the wild in his eyes lol) but he's cool now and plays with the dogs and acts like the kids baby. A lot of the strays end up as barn/shop cats from what I gleaned but they're still domestic animals, and with time and patience most can be civilized I think. Anyways I'd say give them to someone who wants to work with them or use them as a mouser, or take them to a shelter (if you don't want to keep them) - there isn't any reason to kill them (unless they're packing the rabiez lol)
GunsRBadMMMMKay
05-07-2015, 07:03
Here's a pic of our kitty when we first got him home
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Here's a pic of our kitty when we first got him home
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Flush 'em down the toilet.
That's just cruel.
Line up their heads in front of your truck tire and roll forward.
...or just post up a sign to find their owners:
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2279/2403154561_c20bd686a8.jpg
Found 3 little cuties in my backyard and 1 escaped. Probably should have left them alone but they are cute and I don't want a fox to eat them. One is Siamese colored but longer hair. Seems as they are ok with dry food.
Let's see a pic of the little guys
http://i.imgur.com/9EHBNbq.jpg?1
Firehaus
05-07-2015, 12:07
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Best coyote bait there is.
Put them in a cat carrier and suspend it from a tree limb.
Once they start fussing, the coyotes come running. Never in any real danger.
Or, I could use another mouser at our place in the mountains.
Our barn cats only eat food that's dry on the outside and wet in the middle.
That's pretty f'd up. Cats deserve a lot better than that.
Those kittens are adorable, Sparky!
So, what are you going to do with them?
Those kittens are adorable, Sparky!
So, what are you going to do with them?
Get them homes asap
http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l73xjwBIrM1qbqm2bo1_r1_400.gif
GunsRBadMMMMKay
05-07-2015, 16:49
"Best coyote bait there is."
I'm thinking they must work pretty good for cougars as well. When we lived in Oregon our old kitty since gone was mewling as pitiful as possible wanting inside.....he had done something wrong so I was leaving him out there. After a while the dogs started freaking out so i let him in and went out to see several sets of yellow eyes watching from the dark. They moved like cats from my experience, and apparently where since the neighbor later said his game cams had seen a mother and two younger cats hanging around that side of the property.
This thread is making me LOL
[LOL]
Put that pic on Craigslist and they will be gone in a day or two.
BREATHER
05-07-2015, 19:01
Make chop suey
This thread is making me LOL
[LOL]
I'm just hoping people know me to be enough of an animal lover to not take what I said serious. If you read that as a legitimate suggestion then I'm the biggest dick on the face of the earth.
[LOL]
BPTactical
05-07-2015, 21:01
Sorry Neal, I need no further competition for my grub!
DO NOT GIVE THEM AWAY ON CL!!!
There are some sick fucks out there that will kill a cat just to kill it. Quite a few instances of CL giveaways meeting a horrific end.
Cat care society or a no kill shelter please.
Oh and I can't believe it took four pages to get to the dreaded Cat Juggling......the horror!
I'm just hoping people know me to be enough of an animal lover to not take what I said serious. If you read that as a legitimate suggestion then I'm the biggest dick on the face of the earth.
[LOL]
I figured as much...although if you didn't have that part in your signature, I'd say you were in some fierce competition for that title with some others in this thread.
There are some people in this thread that I hope are kidding...but I'm disturbed enough that I think I'm going to no longer going to follow it. I don't know everyone here, and there are too few indicators of joking for me to tell for sure.
Sparky, I'll put out the word through my social circles that you have kittens available. And I second the suggestion to not advertise on CL; there are too many sick yahoos out there.
mcantar18c
05-07-2015, 21:23
My neighbor is a crazy cat lady. She has cat paws on her license plates, feline rescue program stickers on her car, bags of litter everywhere, never leaves the house other than to go to work, and the water that drips from her porch after it snows is yellow.
I bet she'd take them.
Hell, I'm not even a cat person. But after that pic, I'd ALMOST take them in.
Too bad they grow up to be cats. Cute doesn't even begin to describe them.
If you put them on CL or give them to a shelter they will probably end up with a cat lady and be a nuance to society.
I would feed them to the coyotes or sneak them into the shopping mall and let them go, board shop keepers love to play with cats.
We have been giving them lots of attention and they are starting to calm down.
hollohas
05-08-2015, 06:32
I picked up a feral kitten out of the desert in southern AZ when I was a kid. We kept her. Darn thing was mean as hell. For some reason exposed toes pissed her off and she would attack our bare feet regularly. Hands dangling over the side of the couch too. She killed more things than I could ever count. She'd bring the mice inside, alive and put them in the bathtub so she could play with them for a while before she ate them. Woke up many a morning to find a mess in the tub. She killed lizards, birds and even a few full grown rabbits.
Not sure why we kept her. We always figured a coyote would get her one day but never did. She lived 19 years. Tough old kitty.
kidicarus13
05-08-2015, 06:44
I would feed them to the coyotes or sneak them into the shopping mall and let them go, board shop keepers love to play with cats.
Board shop keeper...
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/08/c8b198ed63ab6e9095e0f5bc90948ba2.jpg
Bored shop keeper...
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/08/2fbae040721d161fd74e13409fb1b245.jpg
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Our barn cats only eat food that's dry on the outside and wet in the middle.
What if it rains?
Special Ed
05-08-2015, 09:14
Sparky, if you think they're Siamese kittens (or part Siamese), contact the Rocky Mountain Siamese Rescue http://co.siameserescue.org/ They'll foster them and find them homes. Otherwise I think you've already received good advice from the non-sociopath contributors in this thread.
I've got four cats and am in Texas otherwise I would for sure take one from you. The shelters here (at least the ones I've been to) have barn cat programs for cats and kittens who aren't suitable to be adopted as pets. Given that your little ones are responding well to you already, I don't think they'll need to go to a barn cat program, but it's something to think about.
Thanks for looking out for the little ones.
Firehaus
05-08-2015, 11:53
Feral cats don't really make as good of pets as non feral. They are better barn cats. Always exceptions of course.
Some people in this thread need to lighten up a little bit...
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My black cat 'Coal' (original name eh?) is feral and great. He's kind of calmed down now, when we first got him he'd beat the crap out of our German Shepherd and attack my son for no reason. Granted you still don't want to antagonize him otherwise all bets are off:)
SideShow Bob
05-08-2015, 20:28
I betting that you waited too long to get rid of them. Your kids have grown attached to them and would pull a coup d' etat if you tried getting rid of them now.
They are now family members.
I betting that you waited too long to get rid of them. Your kids have grown attached to them and would pull a coup d' etat if you tried getting rid of them now.
They are now family members.
You can have one if you want. Got to go.
Great-Kazoo
05-08-2015, 20:49
I betting that you waited too long to get rid of them. Your kids have grown attached to them and would pull a coup d' etat if you tried getting rid of them now.
They are now family members.
Or dinner.
Posted for the "Non-Sociopath" members to get their knickers in a row. ;)
It since you have 2 you can tell people you honestly know there is more than one way to skin a cat
i just kid, not a cat person but don't wish harm on cute kittens
I was able to finally find the other that got away. Turns out there is 2 more. They were soaking wet and now that they are dry they are cute tortoise hair kitties
Aloha_Shooter
05-09-2015, 19:56
Foxes gotta eat too
cat care society over here by me sparky... a mile or so away from ya.
Do you know the name of it or is that the name?
USMC88-93
05-09-2015, 21:52
He is probably referencing this group.
http://www.catcaresociety.org/
gnihcraes
05-09-2015, 22:53
Yep, that one.
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