Sounds like a good plan Hideyo - I'm hoping and praying for this to
be successful! Good luck - Gloria
On May 11, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Hideyo Yamamoto wrote:
I guess if I were going to try, I should try it asap before the
mama forgets about her babies..huh?
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Usually the mother goes in the trap very quickly because she hears
and smells the kittens.
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I thought about that, actually, but I was also afraid of leaving
kittens as they are traumatized..
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A good way to catch the mother is to put the kittens in a closed
carrier directly infront of an opened, baited trap.
Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, everyone, I wanted to share a couple of new things –
I rescued three baby cats yesterday who were living under the crawl
space of the abandoned house, which is now bought and be ready to
be renovated.. the new owner was planning to get rid of the kittens
along with all the kitties who live under the crawl space and I
offered to take them. The babies were actually under the hole
under the crawl space which only the size of my entire hand and
thought I and Kathy (my rescue friend) were never going to be able
to get them out… but finally using a little fish net to get one by
one out – they were only 6 weeks old, one calico, one tabby and one
turtleshell (?) and they are all so cute.
The one sad thing is that their mama came to look for the babies
while we were under the crawl space, she was so worried about us
doing something to the babies.. one time, I thought we should just
leave and have the mama take care of the babies and I worry that
later on, she might take babies some other crawl space near there
(there a few, unfortunately), and people might close the crawl
space without knowing that they were there.. the mama came back
several times (while we were there as we were there for about 5
hours).. I felt very bad for mama but I decided to take the babies
from her..
I tried to trap the mama kitty last night but I couldn’t – there
are several kitties there.. I trapped one who looked like mama..
but she must be from mama’s previous litter – she is less than a
year old..
Anyway, I wanted to ask you to pray that I will be able to catch
mama soon (I probably could, if I don’t mind catching all other
kitties who live there.. but I don’t know where I could put them
now as I am running out of crate) --- and the mama will stay safe
and she will not be worrying too much about their babies. I am
heartbroken for the mama –I feel very badly for taking the babies
from their mama…I know that this is probably the right thing.. but
I still cannot not think about the mama…
