Please help - stray /feral kittens - we dont know what to do

rita-rabbit

Ferral kittens can be tamed.

Credit crunch means charities over-run with unwanted pets & the descendants:o(

jippynip

i have messaged you

tealady

Hi
If you come under Birmingham City Council for your rates then you can ring pest control on 0121 303 6993 for free rat treatment.
The Council also has a private tenancy section who may be able to advise you re your landlords action (or lack of)
HTH

gothic_girl

Hi everyone.

Thanks to those who messaged, have responded ( I hope no good with the PM lark!).

Cannot catch them, no luck last night but did manage to give them more food! My Partner's chicken lol and some kitten food plus tried with some cat milk too. I cannot seem to add a photo don't know what I am doing wrong

It's mice btw so the council only gives out poison luckily we had bought our own so its like a blue tea bag smells of a rotton snickers not the open trays so we are trying to keep them fed as I think that they will only go for them if desperate.

Only a funny side... They have completely trashed the room by playing :rotfl:, might give the clean up to my loving Partner afterwards.

Don't start me on cats protection, was very shocked as we would be fine with catch, fix and release. we even offered some towards the cost but as soon as they found out not newborn, they wrote them off for everything, seems bizarre as he was moaning about the feral cat problem but don't want the chance to stop it growing!:mad:

next task... how to add photos lol

happyjane50

we took in a ferral kitten, turned out to be a lovely adition to our family. Good luck

gothic_girl

http://s1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa373/gothiccomper/

gothic_girl

aha somewhat success! I named that one Pepsi, the other is Max (giggle addicted to the stuff anyhoo!)

one of the feral kittens holed up in the 'fitted wardrobe' of the box room, for an idea of size the brass round behind it's head is the bracket for the pole, and the small silver lines of metal are the hooks of coat hangers!


For some reason it looks bigger in the pic than it does in real life.

EmptyPockets

Whoever you have been talking to at the Cats Protection wants bloody well shooting - throw them out of the window? Are you !!!!!!! serious?

Head over to the CatChat forum. I caught a family of ferals (mum and four kittens) not long ago, and the people on CatChat helped me get them neutered and rehomed successfully.

gothic_girl

Unfortunately Empty its true . I even repeated what he said back to him and tried to explain that the kittens cannot jump that high it is maybe a good 1.5m down to the roof from the window with a level narrow ledge joining on to a pitched roof, they might make it but if they slide of the roof they would be done for

It was more the moaning to me about the area and ferals (no need to tell me lol) but they would not even come out to get them fix/ look for disease and release in order to control the number/ disease, there was no way I would toss them out the window!

rita-rabbit

I don't get it:

you haven't removed the poison

you are still feeding the ferrals

enquisitive kittens are bound to eat poisoned food at some point. Whilst ferrals getting additional food they will not hunt & the Council will continue to put down more poison to get rid of the vermin

!!!!!!:- remove poisoned stuff, clean up & remove rubbish in surroundings. Note: Council's ususally respond to complaints about vermin & rubbish better when submitted via their website - as they have KPI figures to meet, telephone calls & visits are not closely monitored.

If youStop feeding ferrals = less vermin = less poison put down = less risk to current kittens. Whilst trying to get kittens & cat's done - wild catch is far healthier than any pet food you can buy anyways - there will be parasites but you get them in pets & maybe when they are `done' they can be flea'd & wormed. Obviously food useful just to entice them for trapping but no more

Good luck