Posted on 03/24/2011 7:57:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Video at source. Even feral kittehs need lub (and noms).
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Some of the cats shown in the video are already adoptable. If you have the patience to bring one home after they show some response to you, they will gain trust in you. It might take as long as 5 months.
I have 4 former wildcats that are now sleepwiths, huggers and follow-arounds. When they sleep in your house and wake up every time to find they have not been eaten in their sleep, they calm down. They watch you and become infatuated with you. You put love in and you get it back in spades.
Pretty kitty. My mom helps out several ferals. I’ll be filling in while she’s in the hospital. They are the fattest ferals around.
So true!
We have a formally feral cat that we were told would never be “right,” that we would never see because she’d live in our closets and under furniture. It’s too late, they told us. She was the first cat I didn’t love at first sight — so contemptuous was her glare.
It took time and gentle patience but she’s now the most affectionate, “togethery” cat we’ve ever known. She’s snuggling with me as I type. Sweet kitty. I love and admire her so much. It’s never too late.
Ol’ Smudge has become a big old marshmallow. He’s RUINED I tell you, totally RUINED! - He’s a pretty boy.
And they wreak destruction on wild birds, as Univ. of Wisconsin research documented. A few years ago some group in my community was trapping feral cats, vaccinating and otherwise medicating, neutering them, and releasing them. But I haven’t read of that recently.
That’s a good lookin’ cat, reminds me of my Rocket. We found him covered with fleas under an old dishwasher on the front porch of the house we moved into.
Scared of every noise and every movement, but a barrel of laughs. Rockhead got his name because when he was young he ran around a full speed all the time bouncing off walls, furniture, and all the other animals.
I wouldn’t trade him for a million dollars.
Post a pic of her if you can.
I typically feed them a special recipe of LR22.
Sky was less than 3 months old when I grabbed him from behind the office where dipsticks were trying to kill him. He's still jumpy, 3 years later. But he's just left my lap to go nom from the big bucket. Later, he'll be curled up, cutting off circulation to my right leg, and in the morning, he'll be looking for my (now missing, sorry, interviews coming up) beard to rub against as I try to drink my coffee and smoke my morning smoke and check the news on FR.
But the affection is all up to him, and he's pretty happy these days. Beats eating bugs and avoiding dipsticks.
/johnny
I love kittens.... They’re yummy rolled in corn meal and deep fried. (It’s a joke people!)
I don't particularly like doing that.
I don't mean like I don't like doing dishes, because killing an animal comes hard to me, because I respect life. But I do it because it's a chore that needs to be done if I want to eat, just like tilling the garden or weeding.
To kill a creature that is not food, or is not a threat, or a pest, is morally wrong. God gave us dominion over the animals, plants and fish for more than wanton destruction.
/johnny
My 2 cats are tamed ferals. Took a couple of months for each one, but now they very bonded to my wife and me.
Persistent rumor has it that Colibri make a better recipe for urban ferals.
Perhaps Snopes could reveal the about that rumor?
He hasn't forgotten. And he eats them up. The other rescue cat from the pound never lived wild and she'll play with them, but they aren't food to her. Food comes from a bag.
/johnny
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