“If you feed a stray cat, even once, it will attach itself to you like super glue”.
Not sure if I completely agree. I know that feral cats after age 12 weeks have little to no chance of being domesticated. Strays... when young... can become wild very quickly. Currently, we have a 5 month old (or thereabouts) kitten in a crate... trying to socialize/domesticate. It’s gone well thus far... according to a great deal of online research. However, after 9 days... I am not 100% sure our goal can be met. Our best case scenario at this point may be a BK (basement kitty) vs a house kitty.
Our formerly feral cat will be on anxiety meds soon....LOL...his main problem is he doesn’t like US! And, we feed him! But, he doesn’t bite, or snarl or anything...he just does not want to be picked up and held. Good luck with yours.
However, after 9 days... I am not 100% sure our goal can be met.
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We’ve fostered a number of kittens (all sizes), and our last bunch was four nine-week-old kittens that were WILD when we got them (bit down hard through heavy gloves, etc.). It did take quite some time to tame them (months, for the two hardest ones) but we finally got them all verifiedly tame and out the door to very happy families! LOL!
I just wanted to say that “weeks” is not a realistic time frame for kittens that have already become feral, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be done at all. For instance, my beloved DLH tuxedo cat William Wallace (The Most Beautiful Cat in the World™) was about five weeks old when we got him, but a fighter already! He hissed and spit for a week, and I got no purrs from that baby until we hit the three week mark. Anyway . . . patience. (Oh, also if you can get hold of buspirone, it helps a lot to tame them down. Just sayin’.)