pregnant stray cat

raptorman

littlekitten wrote: »

Surely it is wrong to inflict pain or suffering on any living creature, irrespective of whether you personally class it as a pet or not ???

So if your house was infested with cockroaches would you call in the exterminator or would you try to rehome/relocate them???

littlekitten

raptorman wrote: »

So if your house was infested with cockroaches would you call in the exterminator or would you try to rehome/relocate them???

The honest anwer to that question is I don't know. Howver I do know that

quote from Ealing councils website : Good hygiene is the key to keeping cockroaches out of your home. It denies a food source and makes them easier to spot. All cracks, crevices and other building problems that could provide a dark enclosure for cockroaches should be repaired as quickly as possible.
So I hope never to be in the situation of having that issue

January20

raptorman wrote: »

So if your house was infested with cockroaches would you call in the exterminator or would you try to rehome/relocate them???

Oh that is such an interesting question! My first answer when you asked it was to be the same as littlekitten. I couldn't hurt a pregnant (or not!) rat just for the sake of it. But then you mentioned cockroaches.... I wouldn't hesitate to have them exterminated with no question asked.

Robby, I'm not an expert but if it was me, I would ring the cpl, see if the cat could be taken in by one of their fosterers, (I'm one of them), trap the cat and get her to the vets to be checked out. The cat would stay with the CPL until she had her kittens and they were ready to be re-homed. Eventually she would be re-homed too, most probably, after having been neutered.

What would you kill the cat? She's done nothing wrong apart from beg for food! I really don't understand why you said you would kill it! Problem cats are usually the result of irresponsible owners.

Coveredinbees!!!!

The cat womens out in the garden now waiting for miss moggy to get in the trap I'm staying out of the way the cat doesn't like me.

As for the rat question I had a rat in my shed last winter I just left it too it, it left me alone I left it alone and in the spring it went back out in to the fields and I blocked up the hole. I have had to kill a couple of mice but they were in the house.

raptorman

So because you had mice in your house you had to kill them?

What about humane traps?

Bendybops19

I hope the pregnant kitty is ok and rehomed Weldone for caring xxx

Coveredinbees!!!!

raptorman wrote: »

So because they were in the house you had to kill them?

What about humane traps?

Stop trying to make an issue about nothing would you leave a mouse in your house to chew up your electrics? I had a couple of snap traps so they got used find something else to do rather than trying to stir up trouble.

raptorman

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Stop trying to make an issue about nothing would you leave a mouse in your house to chew up your electrics? I had a couple of snap traps so they got used find something else to do rather than trying to stir up trouble.

Please forgive me, I'm not trying to stir up trouble, just find it difficult to understand why some people think it's ok to kill one type of animal/pest and not another, that's all.

ethansmum

I asked for a kitten from the Cats protection League and they gave me a lovely baby. I told them I had never had cats before., When the kitten came home, it was just wild all the time. After 2 weeks I couldn't cope any longer with its hissing, biting and aggressive nature- It wasn't playful- it was evil. So I rung them up and told them about it. Their response was priceless- ' yes we expected that- because it was a feral kitten that someone had found'. Why didn't they tell me that in the begining? I took it straight back and we have never had another cat/kitten since!

Please don't think you can tame a feral kitten/cat.

littlekitten

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

The cat womens out in the garden now waiting for miss moggy to get in the trap I'm staying out of the way the cat doesn't like me.

As for the rat question I had a rat in my shed last winter I just left it too it, it left me alone I left it alone and in the spring it went back out in to the fields and I blocked up the hole. I have had to kill a couple of mice but they were in the house.

Glad the cats, its great that you took the trouble to call in the cat people to help her.

Ethansmum, I'm really sorry to hear about your experience. You're right it can be extremely difficult to tame a feral cat/kitten.

Mine was like that (he was a stray that I took in when I lived abroad and brought back with me when I came back to England) and I thought I couldn't keep him after the first couple of weeks as he was very visious and attacked constantly .. I had to put jeans on to protect myself the moment I got out of bed in the morning. There were many times I was afraid of him and still have many scars 10 years on that haven't gone away.

I still wouldn't trust him with a child at all, but with me he is now the most docile loving animal you could ever imagine, he follows me from room to room. If I'm doing something upstairs he will sleep there until I go downstairs when he will come with me. If I sit on the sofa he has to be beside me or on the headrest behind my head. At night he always sleeps beside me and will wait until Iget up in the morning. In my study I have a draw with a blanket in that he sleeps in while I work otherwise he will try to sit on the desk or computer. (Even now he has never sat on anyones lap .. it took alot of persuasion in the beginning to convince him beds and sofa's were OK !!! )

So it is posssible to tame a feral cat. .But only with lots and lots of patience and kindness.

But having said that they are not ideal if you are not prepared to have alot of patience, and a very quiet calm environment as even ten years on he will attack the vet 9 who will wait out of sight until I get him out and only attempt to touch him if I am holding him and visitors can't play with him as he will get nervous and take chunks out of them. He can't go to a cattery as he can't handle it.

xx