For several months, two brothers were feeding a frightened feral cat, who didn’t want to be anywhere near them.
However, one day she brought her babies to meet them.
When they first discovered this feral cat, she was very scared and wouldn’t eat when the guys were around.
“When she came to us, she was wild. She wouldn’t go near anyone,” explained Reddit user ogreaper.
“But for several months we fed her. She began to feel more comfortable around people. Then one day, she brought her kittens to the guys…. “We knew we had to get them out of there.”
“We fed her through the entire winter. So she very slowly over time became comfortable with us. She didn’t let anyone get within 20 feet of her at first.”
“When we rounded the kittens up she did hiss and half attack a couple times.”
It actually took me a few hours to get the kittens.
“One thing that helped was that we had been feeding the mother for months before this happened, so she was already comfortable with us.”
“The kittens were rounded up pretty quickly but the mother was rough. We got her in a box once then she tore right out of it. So we used the actual cat crate on her when she finally came out of hiding again. It was quite the ordeal.”
When the mother cat and her babies moved into the house, things started to change.
“When we first brought them into the house, we opened the box and they were too scared to get out. They just sat there.”
The brother helped the kittens out of the box and onto the old mattress they had.
It wasn’t long before the fur babies started running and jumping on the mattress.
The four-legged family stayed in a room they didn’t use and which contained a few old mattresses.
“We laid one on the floor and angled another one over top of it, kind of like a little mattress fort for them. We figured they would feel safer in a smaller space like this.”
They then began to look for good homes for the kitties and made sure they all got adopted and received the proper medical care they needed.
It didn’t take long for all the kittens to find new homes.
A great way for everyone to help control the feral population in a cat colony is by contacting a local TNR (trap-neuter-return) program to set up traps.
Getting feral cats spayed and neutered, greatly helps to manage the population so the kitties can live the happy and healthy lives they so deserve.
“There was no way I could leave them out there,” Ogreaper stated. Now the kitties no longer need to worry about shelter and food.