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25-06-2010, 11:07 PM
My auntie has recently had 2 visitors take up residence in her garden behind the rhubarb under a tin sheet, a beautiful dilute tabby and white mum and her single dilute tortie and white patched daughter (I obviously assume daughter) who have been there a couple of weeks now.
My auntie, her husband and my nanna who also lives with them are well and truly smitten with the pair. The kitten is young, about 6 weeks old. They come out and eat the food put out for them, the kitten eats the solids too which is good, but they are extremely timid and you cannot get near them at all. Mum is very protective over her baby and will carry her away into the undergrowth if you go outside while they are out. She will let you sit on the back doorstep and watch at a push, but you can see she is uneasy and she doesn't half give you an evil stare if you do! :shock: :-D
Obviously with them living there for so long mum is clearly stray or even feral but my auntie also wants to do the right thing for mum and have her spayed and also her daughter, so i'm looking for advice on this as I don't have any experience on TNR. My auntie wants the cats to stay and hopefully entice them in if she can but at what age would they spay the baby? With no guarantee that she will be around at 6 months of age obviously as she has had no human contact in her short life and has been born feral and mum is unknown but has been a visitor to my aunties garden (just passing through) for a while before she had this baby, so she is a 'familiar face' so to speak.
Any advice welcome! Thanks x
My auntie, her husband and my nanna who also lives with them are well and truly smitten with the pair. The kitten is young, about 6 weeks old. They come out and eat the food put out for them, the kitten eats the solids too which is good, but they are extremely timid and you cannot get near them at all. Mum is very protective over her baby and will carry her away into the undergrowth if you go outside while they are out. She will let you sit on the back doorstep and watch at a push, but you can see she is uneasy and she doesn't half give you an evil stare if you do! :shock: :-D
Obviously with them living there for so long mum is clearly stray or even feral but my auntie also wants to do the right thing for mum and have her spayed and also her daughter, so i'm looking for advice on this as I don't have any experience on TNR. My auntie wants the cats to stay and hopefully entice them in if she can but at what age would they spay the baby? With no guarantee that she will be around at 6 months of age obviously as she has had no human contact in her short life and has been born feral and mum is unknown but has been a visitor to my aunties garden (just passing through) for a while before she had this baby, so she is a 'familiar face' so to speak.
Any advice welcome! Thanks x