{"id":5842,"date":"2012-11-30T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:14:08","slug":"cats-socializing-ferals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/cats-socializing-ferals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats: Socializing Ferals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, we had Pretty Boy Floyd here at the house and his sister in quarantine at the vet’s for biting the staff during her initial visit.\u00a0 We now have the entire litter captured. Thanks to Tammy for providing the real Pretty Boy Floyd’s sisters’ names.\u00a0 I decided to use a variation for our Pretty Boy Floyd’s sisters.\u00a0 Our quarantined sister, for going all Delta Force on the vet staff, has earned the name, Delta (but she doesn’t really fit that mode–she’s just a scared kitty).\u00a0 Rossie seemed to fit the tabby, so that’s what we’re calling her.\u00a0 Rossie is also kind of a scared kitty, but they are both coming around.\u00a0 Ruby Mae was the name chosen for the last kitten captured.\u00a0 Delta and Ruby Mae are Bengal-patterned kitties with dark calico coloring.\u00a0 Rossie is a dark tabby with a light cream bib and copper highlights.\u00a0 Floyd is a handsome orange tabby pattern with a winning smile.\u00a0 He’s a true sweetie and socializing well.<\/p>\n

\"Pretty\u00a0 \"Floyd<\/p>\n

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I’ve been able to handle Delta, Rossie, and Ruby Mae.\u00a0 Ruby Mae is a tiny, tiny kitty with an appetite. I’m hoping she begins putting on a little weight — not a lot, but I’d feel better if she had a little meat on her bone.\u00a0 She follows behind Floyd in everything and is the next most sociable kitty.\u00a0 She’s catching up with him rapidly.\u00a0 Delta and Rossie are less anxious to be socialized, but I think they will come around.\"Rossie\"<\/p>\n

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\"Ruby\"Kittens<\/p>\n

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Floyd loves to rough house with his sisters. And they’re getting more comfortable playing with him around us.\u00a0 It’s nice to see tumbling kitties.\u00a0 Delta was starting to scratch on the rug inside the back door, so I put some fresh catnip on the scratch box and put it on the rug to encourage her to scratch there.\u00a0 Floyd fell in love, as you can see above, but the next day, Delta was doing her scratching there instead of on the rug.\u00a0 In the lower right corner of the picture above, you can see the maze hubby built for the kittens.\u00a0 They ignored it yesterday, but today (Friday), they’ve all played in it.\u00a0 Delta was the first to find her way through it.\"Ruby<\/p>\n

Ruby was the first to voluntarily venture into the maze.\u00a0 Now I find all the girls taking refuge in there.<\/p>\n

You’ve been hearing a lot about feral kitties lately. What about the regular house cats?\u00a0 Ajax is the most welcoming to kittens.\u00a0 He is very interested in them and we bring him into the kitchen to spend time with them whenever he wants.\u00a0 He had all three girls gathered around him earlier today.\u00a0 They were adorable.\u00a0 He and Floyd get along well, too.\u00a0 He’s a good Uncle Ajax.<\/p>\n

Tarzan, true to form, is scared of them.\u00a0 Natasha hisses at them and gives them a grumpy look, but she doesn’t do anything to hurt them.\u00a0 I haven’t exposed Lady to them yet.\u00a0 I’m afraid she may think they’re something to eat.<\/p>\n

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Last weekend, we had Pretty Boy Floyd here at the house and his sister in quarantine at the vet’s for biting the staff during her initial visit.\u00a0 We now have the entire litter captured. Thanks to Tammy for providing the real Pretty Boy Floyd’s sisters’ names.\u00a0 I decided to use …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,77],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-pets","tag-feral-cats"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}