Archangel
Well-Known Member
I am borrowing a trap to get some feral kittens spayed/neutered next week. The mum has a new litter but comes every day for food. She eats alongside her first kittens as they now live in my stables.
If she comes for food and finds her first litter have disappeared, she won’t know they have only just popped to the vets, will it spook her enough to move her new kittens or even just clear off?
This new lot are only a week old, I don't know where they are, hopefully she will eventually bring them here as well.
I did think about taking the kittens to be done two at a time so if she turned up she would find two of them still here – would that work or am I overthinking this?
Regarding the neutering/spaying – I think there are two boys and two girls - the cat rescue said just let them go when they get home. But the weather is horrible here at the moment, wet and windy and it is a bit tooth and claw wild up here. They will be so vulnerable and I worry the stress of being taken to the vet will make them just disappear into the countryside.
I was planning, depending on how they are coping with things, on keeping them shut in a barn the night after their operation. I can start feeding them in there now so they are used to the place. I will obviously play it by ear as to how they are coping but has anyone done this with newly neutered ferals or have you just let them go?
Any advice welcomed to make the whole thing as smooth as possible for them. It will be a happy day when everyone is neutered, including Mum.
If she comes for food and finds her first litter have disappeared, she won’t know they have only just popped to the vets, will it spook her enough to move her new kittens or even just clear off?
This new lot are only a week old, I don't know where they are, hopefully she will eventually bring them here as well.
I did think about taking the kittens to be done two at a time so if she turned up she would find two of them still here – would that work or am I overthinking this?
Regarding the neutering/spaying – I think there are two boys and two girls - the cat rescue said just let them go when they get home. But the weather is horrible here at the moment, wet and windy and it is a bit tooth and claw wild up here. They will be so vulnerable and I worry the stress of being taken to the vet will make them just disappear into the countryside.
I was planning, depending on how they are coping with things, on keeping them shut in a barn the night after their operation. I can start feeding them in there now so they are used to the place. I will obviously play it by ear as to how they are coping but has anyone done this with newly neutered ferals or have you just let them go?
Any advice welcomed to make the whole thing as smooth as possible for them. It will be a happy day when everyone is neutered, including Mum.