I am so happy to be blogging good news! For a month I have been trying to catch a feral (wild) cat that has been hanging around my house. I have been worried about how many kittens he has been making, because I could see his marbles from far away. With situations like this you use a cat trap, but i have seen cats go crazy in those cages and it hurts my feelings to think about him in that cage till I got home. I decided to use the food over fear method. Using a sour cream tub to feed him under our RV the cat would soon see that I don't want to hurt him.
At first he would wait in the edge of the woods and wait till he couldn't see me. I brought my cat over to let him see me petting a cat, and my cat eating out of the bowl then leave so he would see its safe to do the same as my Goldie did. Each time I fed him, he would get a little closer to me. I knew it wouldn't be much longer.
Last night I heard a cat crying so I went to the door. There he sat begging for food. I ran to get the sour cram tub so not to thru off the routine and make him cautious, and then went to the RV where he was waiting, but this time I didn't scoot it all the way under, I put it on the edge and stepped back just a little. He looked at me and cried, and grabbed a quick bite then pulled back. after a few quick bites I scooted the food closer to me and out from under the RV he looked at me, an I wondered what he was thinking. I started to sing a soothing kitty song to him and he started to trust me. He slowly came over to the bowl and just sat there while he ate. I pet his head with just a little pull back from him. Then as much as I hated to do it for fear of loosing all the trust I built up, I quickly scruffed him up and Ran to the door of my house where 4 of my dogs were freaking out. I used my elbow to bang on the window so my husband would come get the dogs. So in your mind do you see this cat going nuts? Well surprisingly he never moved he was in kitten mode and he was completely trusting me to not hurt him.
I put him in our bathroom for the night. I knew my husband would not love this idea as hes allergic to cats, but I wanted to make sure I could catch him in the morning so I could have his nastys removed. He cried most of the night, but when I checked on him he wanted to cuddle with me????? How can he be so feral and then so cuddly???? Hes just scared, hes just a sweet kitten that is scared.
Scratches on his face, You can feel every bone in his body, scared, and not neutered. This is not a good situation for any cat. Because he wants to cuddle tells me at one time he was someones cat. Now scared out of his mine and starved???? Who dumped this cat???
Hes safe now, we will have him tested, fatten him up, neuter him and repair his wounds. The song I sang to him is "Sweet Sweet Tom Kitty" So I named him Tom Kitty. I cant wait to see how beautiful he turns out to be!
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