Soaperlol ([info]soap_committee) wrote,
@ 2008-05-07 14:44:00
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Last post about this, I sweeear...Today.
The poor, malnourished, tiny mom cat having a staring contest with my fat, spoiled, ungrateful cat:















And then like usual, they swiftly flee under the house.

I haven't done work yet today, I just keep going outside and looking at them. ;___;

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[info]danielmayhem
2008-05-07 07:23 pm UTC (link)
your cat looks like it can barely walk, at least judging by the neck.

As for trying to find something, i know that there are non-profit animal rescues- separate from the animal control, but they often rescue animals and whatnot.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 07:08 am UTC (link)
Aww that picture makes her look chubbier than she is. Har

I would love to find one of those rescues if they take strays! It's clear that no county or private-run places around here will set traps for free, so I'm gonna catch 'em and take 'em to a shelter that takes stray kittens. That's really the problem, most places seem to want domesticated animals - would it be too late to domesticate kittens who are starting to walk, or are they already too feral-invested?

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[info]rms_141
2008-05-08 07:27 am UTC (link)
I don't think they would have a problem with kittens that young. If they're just learning their way, they shouldn't qualify as feral. The mother might be a problem, but if she doesn't freak out, I would imagine they'd just need to give her the routine battery of exams and shots.

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[info]ryclaude
2008-05-07 08:40 pm UTC (link)
STOP BREAKING MY HEART.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-07 09:08 pm UTC (link)
THEN ADOPT THEM ALL PLEASE

I'm sure the out-of-country expenses wouldn't be bad

...at all

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[info]ryclaude
2008-05-07 10:07 pm UTC (link)
they'd die in transit.

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[info]rayerai
2008-05-07 11:53 pm UTC (link)
FLUFFIES

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 07:11 am UTC (link)
Ohhh you posting reminds me, does that one cat hang out around the house still? We thought it was abandoned and fed it for months, we almost took her to the shelter. .....And then it turned out that some guys off Solana or wherever own her and allow her to roam.

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[info]rayerai
2008-05-08 07:59 am UTC (link)
One cat? I've seen like... three. There's one dark one with a bobbed tail, and then there's a mommy cat. She's got a few kittens. I saw them out my window one afternoon. She was teaching them how to hunt. Cutest. Thing. EVER.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 08:03 am UTC (link)
Oh God I love watching them try to hunt but fall over

By the way, your cat is awesome. When you were out of town and I was staying over, never before had a cat let me fall asleep holding her like a teddy bear or something. ;___;

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[info]rayerai
2008-05-08 08:11 am UTC (link)
The whore strikes again! XD

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[info]b_rian
2008-05-08 06:11 am UTC (link)
KITTENS O_O

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[info]rms_141
2008-05-08 06:38 am UTC (link)
Yeah, you need to find someone to take these cats or stop feeding them, because they will soon consider the space under your house to be home.

Also, just for the "aww" factor, if they wind up letting you approach, take pictures of yourself holding them. One day in the future, you'll find it randomly on your computer and boom, instant future LJ post. "Hay guiz, remember this?"

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 07:15 am UTC (link)
With or without kittens, I don't post pictures of myself here publicly.

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[info]rms_141
2008-05-08 07:21 am UTC (link)
Did not mean to insinuate you should.

Any ideas on what to do with the cats? They get attached very easily, so if you keep feeding them and they keep ducking under the house, they'll think that's normal.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 07:28 am UTC (link)
Like I said above, I'm going to catch them tomorrow and take them to a shelter. Since they're still very young they may not be too feral for the SPCA or something.

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[info]rms_141
2008-05-08 08:04 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I saw that afterwards. Damnit, I'm blind.

The kittens should be good. It's the mother that may be too gone.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 02:19 pm UTC (link)
Nah, in retrospect I'd only posted that 10 minutes before and in a different thread...no blindness there.

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[info]rms_141
2008-05-08 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Coolness.

Let us know how your trapping efforts go.

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[info]junemermaid
2008-05-08 07:48 am UTC (link)
Is the mother actually feral or just skitterish? Because there is a big difference between the two~
We had a mother cat have kittens in our woods (at my parents house ages ago) and we ended up taking them all in and keeping them in dog cages in our basement until they warmed up to people. Which for the kittens took no time, the mother took about a month to stop hissing at people and shit, but she did turn around. Now she's just a fat old house cat like all the rest.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 08:00 am UTC (link)
Auuugh that is adorable ;__;

Feral or skitterish like yours was, it's...sort of hard to say! She associates people with free food at the least, but when I fed her she stayed a minimum two feet away, and made bitchy growly noises at me until I went back inside so she could eat.

That's the biggest problem, I want to give the mom a chance too but because I don't know that she'll take to people at all, she may not be allowed in a no-kill shelter with the kittens.

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[info]junemermaid
2008-05-08 08:15 am UTC (link)
I'd say keep feeding her food and see if she warms up to you. When you feed her just stand out there and wait for her to come to the food even with you there. I don't mean like, right by the food but make sure she associates you with eating. Over time she should get better and better with you being there and see that you're not a threat.
If she was feral she wouldn't even stick around long enough to see you putting food down. She'd just scat no sooner she saw you move.

My mother took in all sorts of wild animals and strays when I was little (which is why we had dog cages even tho we never owned a dog) so we tamed a lot of things. I had a pet squirrel for a while, he was pretty awesome lol.

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[info]soap_committee
2008-05-08 08:39 am UTC (link)
That distinction is really good to know - thank you, this cheers me up about it! I still intend to take her kittens in while they're easy to catch, but if she warms up enough I'd like to at least have her spayed.

(Also, your squirrel-home sounds badass)

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[info]salarta
2008-05-09 04:52 pm UTC (link)
THOSE KITTENS LOOK DELICIOUS.

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[info]salarta
2008-05-22 06:12 am UTC (link)
You are pants.

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