What kind of problems do feral kittens have?
Feral kittens usually have problems like ear mites and stomach parasites. Your vet can help you with all of that. The vet can’t cure feline herpes (humans can’t get this) or feline leukemia (also not contagious to humans), but there are many other things with which a vet can help.
What should I do if I find a feral cat?
Make sure that if you trap them, you get all of the kittens and the mother cat if possible. Use TNR in order to trap all of them so that they can get neutered and release, and prevent the colony from growing. When looking for the feral kittens, make sure to get them within the quiet, unseen spots, since that’s where the mom keeps them.
What’s the difference between a stray cat and a feral cat?
They tend to belong to a colony especially kittens with a mom, whereas stray cats aren’t a part of the colonies. Feral cats do crawl, stay low, and crouch to the ground, usually, a sign of fear, and they protect their bodies with a tail. Feral kittens, if they’re older, tend to do this. They don’t make eye contact.
What’s the most common behavior of a feral cat?
Feral cats do crawl, stay low, and crouch to the ground, usually, a sign of fear, and they protect their bodies with a tail. Feral kittens, if they’re older, tend to do this. They don’t make eye contact. They won’t communicate, even with a meow, a purr, or a beg.
Is it possible to tame a feral kitten?
Those adult stray cats that were once owned, or feral cats of quiet temperament, may sometimes be tamed with patience. But a feral kitten is often easily tamed if it is captured young enough. Considering the short, miserable lives that feral cats suffer, those kittens that can be tamed and adopted by humans are indeed lucky.
Make sure that if you trap them, you get all of the kittens and the mother cat if possible. Use TNR in order to trap all of them so that they can get neutered and release, and prevent the colony from growing. When looking for the feral kittens, make sure to get them within the quiet, unseen spots, since that’s where the mom keeps them.
Feral kittens usually have problems like ear mites and stomach parasites. Your vet can help you with all of that. The vet can’t cure feline herpes (humans can’t get this) or feline leukemia (also not contagious to humans), but there are many other things with which a vet can help.
They tend to belong to a colony especially kittens with a mom, whereas stray cats aren’t a part of the colonies. Feral cats do crawl, stay low, and crouch to the ground, usually, a sign of fear, and they protect their bodies with a tail. Feral kittens, if they’re older, tend to do this. They don’t make eye contact.