“Well we were finally able to trap their mama. She will be going in to Ramona clinic tomorrow to be spayed, get vaccinated, and be SNAP tested. I took these pics last night but then was too tired to post the update. I’m happy to see that her injury from the last time she was trapped seems to be healing well and there is no signsLake Elsinore Feral Mom Cat Trapped
of infection present because that is something I was a little bit worried about.
She has injuries because the people that caught her and her kittens have never trapped before and they did not know that they needed to cover the Trap so she freaked out and ripped her head open and they ended up letting her go because they were afraid that she was going to injure herself further and they weren’t sure if the rescue would take a feral or help a feral so they let her go. They were really sad and apologetic when they found out that we would have taken her and held her and got her spayed. So I explained to them better ways to trap and left traps with them and we were finally able to catch her again and it’s healing a lot better than I expected it to be with her being out in the elements and stuff. So it looks better than I expected it to – it was really bad when it first happened.
But we are definitely going to do everything we can to try to make sure that she has everything she needs to live her best, longest, healthiest life. The neighbor across the street from the house that she had her babies under has been feeding the ferals and will continue to feed her and they are also going to try to trap the two or three unneutered males that have been roaming around the neighborhood that we believe are the Daddy’s of the kittens that I have. We would like to just get the entire Colony vaccinated and altered so they can be fed and happy and fat and keep the rodent population down but not bring the feral kitty cat numbers up.”
Meet our rescued 2 momma cats and 10 kittens! Here is an update from
Rescued B&W Mom and her Kittens
Volunteer Shell about their history:
“A young woman in Hemet went out to her carport and discovered a young mom cat with 5 newly born kittens and she took them in so that they could be somewhere safe and warm. She made sure that the mom had access to food and water and was in her house in a warm safe place with her kittens.
Rescued B&W Mom and her Kittens
Approximately a week later she discovered a heavily pregnant cat also in her carport and took that one in as well. It looked very similar to the first cat so she thought maybe they were related and decided to keep both of them in her apartment. The second cat is the one that Lynn has and sent pics for. Shortly after taking in the pregnant cat she gave birth to 5 kittens. She had trouble birthing two of them and the girl needed to help her deliver. But the mom and the kittens have seemed healthy and happy since.
Rescued B&W Kittens
When the kittens started to grow and scamper around she realized that
1) her apartment was too small to keep herself, her boyfriend, her dog, her cat, plus two mom cats and 10 baby kittens in forever.
2) if she gave away the mom cats and the kittens without getting them spayed and neutered and vaccinated first she was just going to be adding to the overpopulation problem and she didn’t want that.
3) getting all of them spayed and neutered and vaccinated before giving them away was going to be more costly than she could afford and so getting them into a rescue was probably the best route so she began to look for a rescue.
Rescued B&W Mom and her Kittens
She found the contact information for Karen at let them be little and contacted Karen about the cat and the kittens and Karen notified her that LTBL was full but that she would try to get in touch with somebody else that could possibly help and she contacted me, and here we are.
Rescued B&W Mom and her Kittens
The kittens that I have are about 6 weeks old, were flea free, but were suffering from a mild URI which is mostly cleared up now. The ones that Lin has are about 4-4.5 weeks old. I am bad about guesstimating older cats ages so I would guess under 3 years old for the moms, possibly under 2 but may be off.”
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