Up on the roof top

@ElicBxn (64172)
United States
March 18, 2017 5:17pm CST
Pulled 5 baby babies off the roof of the catio and took them to the shelter. Austin is "no kill" so they will go to someone to bottle feed. Didn't want to leave them there for fear of possums, the neighborhood hawk, and a fall off said roof when they got a bit more mobile. We are a bit concerned about the smallest, but he has a better chance off the roof than on, and with an experienced bottle baby mom than us. Need to talk to the lady next door to catch the adult feral cats and fix the lot of them. We DON'T need more feral cats!
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117262)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Mar 17
How odd for a momma kitty to leave her kittens unattended before they're old enough. I'm so glad my 3 are house cats and fixed, not a chance of kittens here. I hope you get lucky and catch each of them to get them fixed, good luck.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
18 Mar 17
No, she didn't leave them, she got spooked when the young man came over to help get them out. But the last litter of kittens I knew about only had 1 survivor out of 5 and I haven't seen that one lately either.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117262)
• El Paso, Texas
18 Mar 17
Well, it's still rather odd that a kitty would have her litter in the open like that, most of the ones I've known of in the past usually found a secluded hole somewhere @ElicBxn we never knew there were kittens around until they were almost weaned and became curious.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@rebelann they were under the eaves of the main roof, on top of the catio roof that was added later. I only knew they were there because they were hollering on Thursday when I was trying to catch Kismet to take to the vet. It took until this morning for our young man to come and find them. Mom did a good job of hiding them, I wouldn't have known they were up there if I hadn't gone outside to catch Kis.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
19 Mar 17
It would have been great if you could catch also Momma cat. If you can fix the adult feral cats is a good thing to avoid more kittens.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
20 Mar 17
I agree @LadyDuck I am a great proponent of fixing critters, all ours are fixed.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
20 Mar 17
@ElicBxn It is mandatory to fix cats here, to avoid unwanted stray kittens.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
20 Mar 17
@LadyDuck I agree, and it should be mandatory here too. It is if you adopt a pet from one of the shelters, in fact, they now fix them as young as 8 weeks because people weren't getting them fix.
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169534)
• United States
18 Mar 17
That sounds like your good deed for the day, or even the month. I hope they have good luck raising them.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
19 Mar 17
I know. I wanted to rescue that previous litter, but I'm determined to get together with the lady next door about fixing these cats.
snowy
@snowy22315 (209104)
• United States
22 Mar 17
Yep, trap neuter and release is the best thing you can do for them many times. It has worked like a gem for my friend, and in this county...it is widely practiced. Our humane society which I am proud to be a part of, does excellent work.
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
22 Mar 17
I've been known to fix cats that cross my yard too often, but I am going to have to set up the live trap to catch these cats.
Nanette Piotrowski
@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
19 Mar 17
That is unusual that the mother would have selected the patio roof to leave the kittens @ElicBxn .
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ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64172)
• United States
20 Mar 17
I agree, and when they got a little older and more mobile so many bad things could've happened to them.
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ingrid
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
21 Mar 17
here in my neighborhood, sleep is usually interrupted when cats 'romance' at night, with many meows from dusk till dawn. that is why there are many stray cats around