How To Catch Baby Feral Kittens

The last cat to volunteer himself at our home was a very young feral kitten who suddenly showed up on our porch last november and started cuddling with our outside cat at night a docile but large and muscular male cat.

How to catch baby feral kittens. It s good to be aware that stray cats are very different from the kitties you see in a pet store or at your friend s house. You would ve assumed such a large and unrelated cat would be scary to a baby but i think he needed warmth. Cats are very nice to humans if taken proper care. Feral cats may not want to be near you but they re still great moms for their babies.

If you re able to trap one kitten immediately set the back of a second trap of a similar size end to end. Think like a cat. Most of really want to adopt stray kittens but find it hard to catch them as they do not have the traps. Try luring the kitten with a cat toy on the end of a string you can get cat toys from pet shops.

If your first attempt doesn t work you may want to set a humane trap to catch the cat. I learned quickly that not any old trap will do. See if you can catch them all in separate traps. You can purchase humane traps at most box retailers or borrow one from a veterinarian or your local animal control office.

All cat traps are not made equal. This video shows how you can give feral cats a safe space to raise the. The first of course it. We named him ono as in oh no.

When you are dealing with any non domesticated animal you will want to be cautious. If you trap multiple cats in one trap you will need to separate them later. Feral adventures in the backyard jungle be pretty cagey around cages. However there are many other ways using which you can catch stray kittens without the trap.

Because they avoid either by strategy or dumb luck engaging the trip plate entering the trap to dine in style or by stepping around it or leaning over it my friend linda just had a. How can i let her help without scaring the kitten. Because they are suspicious and resist the allure bait. Use tasty bait such as canned cat food to encourage momma to enter the trap.

Check out the different kinds of equipment to help you do so. Step two put food aka. We want to catch the feral kitten 6 8 weeks old that moved under our house to be my loving 5 year old girl s house cat. Strays can as nina malkin puts it in her book an unlikely cat lady.

Learn about feral cats. There are several reasons this is important. They are skittish and not used to humans. Check the trap regularly.

Also some of them do not find it ethical to catch stray kittens with the help of traps. When i first started trying to catch ferals i had no idea what i was doing. A stray kitten may also be called a feral wild cat. I will be doing most of the gentling.

The trap the works the best is the havahart live animal trap. Don t touch the cat in case it s got rabies a disease cats. There s a kitten on the porch. Step one get the right kind of cat trap.