For those of you new to the blog for the A-Z Challenge, I’ve been rescuing a small contingent of feral cats in my neighborhood.\u00a0 For the adult cats, I’ve trapped them, taken them to the vet for shots, examination, and spaying or neutering, then I’ve released them.\u00a0 There were three adult cats.\u00a0 Last November I trapped and released two of them.\u00a0 One has eluded capture, and I call her Sneaky, for what I hope are obvious reasons — she’s too smart to be taken in my trap. There were also four kittens, about three months old back in November, and I trapped all four of them.\u00a0 They needed to wait a few months before they were old enough to be spayed and neutered, so we worked on socializing the kittens during that time.\u00a0 They are seven and a half months old now and are still with us.\u00a0 There are three females and a male.\u00a0 They’ve been spayed and neutered.\u00a0 All four adapted to the litter box immediately and have been impeccable house cats from that perspective. The male, a large well-proportioned orange tabby, is a socialization success.\u00a0 He’s a charmer.\u00a0 I call him Pretty Boy Floyd. The two middle socialization successes are Bengal striped females.\u00a0 Both of them can be handled and are doing well.\u00a0 They are Delta and Ruby Mae.\u00a0 Ruby Mae is a scrappy little girl whom I suspect is the runt of the litter.\u00a0 The fourth, a long, lean gray tabby is called Rossie.\u00a0 She, while being a good house cat, is not willing to be handled and is not interested in much interaction with us.\u00a0 They are all beautiful, well-dispositioned cats.\u00a0 While they are technically up for adoption, I’m not anxious to have any of them leave.<\/p>\n
Sneaky, I suspect, is pregnant.\u00a0 We haven’t quite been able to stop the cycle. Peaches and Little Orange, the other adult cats, have not been seen for several weeks in the case of Peaches and not since January for Little Orange (the mother of the four kittens).\u00a0 Are they roaming to another space or has something happened to them?\u00a0 I don’t know. That’s the way things are with a feral colony. Those two won’t be making any more kittens, and they have their shots. That’s the best I can do for them.\u00a0 Sneaky?\u00a0 I’m still trying to make sure she gets taken care of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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