How to catch a stray kitten that's turned up at our yard?

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It's quite young looking, looks healthy but thin and has been catching mice in our fields. It's been hanging around for about a week, has no collar on and is very very wary of humans. I am very very happy to adopt it or find a new home for it but can't get near enough to catch it. Any ideas??!
 
Just feed it and ignore it and eventually, it will come round and want to be stroked.

I know it sounds odd, but cats come round in their own time and they hate to be ignored.

The alternative is to get a live cat trap from CPL, bait it with food and one trapped kitty.
 
leave a bowl of food in a cat carry basket and be ready to shut it?

by the way cats/kittens find it less threatening if you bend down and appear smaller to them whilst walking towards them/standing next to them
 
Is your yard safe i.e not on a main road,if so I would just leave a little bit of food out for him/her each day and just ignore him/her till they get used to you,would be very wary about trying to corner it as a)you dont want to traumatize it b)it just isnt that easy to catch a cat and c)cats can be bl**dy nasty when cornered and scared.
 
Unfortunately our yard is right on a main road and we've already lost one stable cat to the road (and she was very car savvy) so I want to get this little one out of the yard as soon as possible and either back home with me or somewhere else safe.
 
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Just feed it and ignore it and eventually, it will come round and want to be stroked.

I know it sounds odd, but cats come round in their own time and they hate to be ignored.

The alternative is to get a live cat trap from CPL, bait it with food and one trapped kitty.

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Not if it's a true feral it won't!

We have ferals on our farm and even though we feed them twice a day and are always pleasant to them they still will not let us touch/stroke/pick them up.

If this kitten is wild and isn't very young, it's possibly unlikely that it will ever be tame enough to be a true domestic cat.

We are currently socailising some kittens from a feral mum. We have to take them at just under 5 weeks (as per Cats Protection advice) in order to socialise them effectively. They've been in the house since Tuesday and are slowly coming around.

Still waiting to be loaned a trap so we can catch her and have her spayed. We had the ferals trapped and spayed two years ago. This particular She cat was a tiny kitten at the time, so not done.
 
Start feeding it in a stable so when it gets more confident about coming in you can shut the door on it then try and grab it in a more enclosed area!!
 
CPL for a cat trap. ferals will tame and become nice cats just takes time! i gave my sister 2 extremely feral kittens 14 years ago, one has since died and the other is as soft as butter and adores all humans! the cat traps work really well and are very humane.
 
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