Hi guys and gals,
My name is Mike, I live in NY.
I'm hoping you can help me. My wife and I moved into a new home recently, found two kittens and have been feeding them outside from time to time for about the past 3 to 4 months.
At first we provided milk, meats, scraps, etc and then moved onto wet cat food. The two kittens are about 4 months now, they're friendly, come up to us once in a while but are still somewhat skiddish. I've noticed their tail is up when around us most of the time as of late.
My wife and I would like to take one as a pet. We're just afraid of letting the cat loose in the house and don't know what to expect. In addition and more importantly, we don't know what the cat could have wrong with them and if they could pass something onto us as we're afraid of that. Not to mention the general cat stuff like jumping on top of table tops, scratching our leather seats and couch. Along with the cat using a litterbox.
What I'd really like to do is take one of the cats as a pet and find a good home for the other. I'm hoping you can advise me on how to accomplish this. I've already trapped them before one by one in a pet carrying cage designed to take to a dog to the vet. I let them go because my wife at the time felt different about taking them. I feel that I could be able to do it again by placing food in the cage. I've left the cage out there outside and place food in there some times just so they can get accustomed.
Physically the cats seem perfectly fine to us now. They on occassion could sneeze (maybe a cold?) and just lick/groom themselves which seems normal. Other than that, when they were little (1-2 months) we noticed eye swelling and mucus coming out from the eyes of both cats. They're fine now though from what we can tell since we see them every day. They practically live in my yard, even sleep on top of our table together, they're so cute.
The mother kitty does still come out to us once in and a while but she is aggressive towards the kittens, she hisses/attacks/scratches them over the food we put out there. I've also seen a raccoon as big as 4 cats in the yard two nights so I'm worried about that as well.
Thanks for your time and god bless you for what you and this forum does here. I feel horrible for these poor cats, especially its getting cold now. These two snuggle together just to keep warm each night. I want to give them good homes. Again, please advise, please help.
Thanks,
-Mike T.
My name is Mike, I live in NY.
I'm hoping you can help me. My wife and I moved into a new home recently, found two kittens and have been feeding them outside from time to time for about the past 3 to 4 months.
At first we provided milk, meats, scraps, etc and then moved onto wet cat food. The two kittens are about 4 months now, they're friendly, come up to us once in a while but are still somewhat skiddish. I've noticed their tail is up when around us most of the time as of late.
My wife and I would like to take one as a pet. We're just afraid of letting the cat loose in the house and don't know what to expect. In addition and more importantly, we don't know what the cat could have wrong with them and if they could pass something onto us as we're afraid of that. Not to mention the general cat stuff like jumping on top of table tops, scratching our leather seats and couch. Along with the cat using a litterbox.
What I'd really like to do is take one of the cats as a pet and find a good home for the other. I'm hoping you can advise me on how to accomplish this. I've already trapped them before one by one in a pet carrying cage designed to take to a dog to the vet. I let them go because my wife at the time felt different about taking them. I feel that I could be able to do it again by placing food in the cage. I've left the cage out there outside and place food in there some times just so they can get accustomed.
Physically the cats seem perfectly fine to us now. They on occassion could sneeze (maybe a cold?) and just lick/groom themselves which seems normal. Other than that, when they were little (1-2 months) we noticed eye swelling and mucus coming out from the eyes of both cats. They're fine now though from what we can tell since we see them every day. They practically live in my yard, even sleep on top of our table together, they're so cute.
The mother kitty does still come out to us once in and a while but she is aggressive towards the kittens, she hisses/attacks/scratches them over the food we put out there. I've also seen a raccoon as big as 4 cats in the yard two nights so I'm worried about that as well.
Thanks for your time and god bless you for what you and this forum does here. I feel horrible for these poor cats, especially its getting cold now. These two snuggle together just to keep warm each night. I want to give them good homes. Again, please advise, please help.
Thanks,
-Mike T.