Baby cat that lives surrounded by my backyard?
There's this baby cat that sleeps in my flowers in my backyard. He have no home. After a while of watching him sleeping in my flowers everyday, i started to give him some cat food. He is frightened whenever i come out from my house and hides in the flowers. Now it's almost winter and I'm afraid this child cat won't survive. Is there any way i can bring him to my house before something happen to him?
I would not recommend bringing the cat into your home before having it checked by a vet-especially whether you have children.
I would suggest catching it with a humane trap or calling the local animal control. In plentiful cases, since you "found" the cat and it is not claimed by anyone else, you will have the first chance to adopt it.
Ferral (wild) cats, especially males, are terrifically messy. They mark (spray urine) all over the place, which will be IN your house. My boyfriend is a carpet cleaner and he say that cat pee is the hardest smell to get out of the carpet, IF he can get it out at adjectives.
I am ALL FOR (!) adopting animals (I have a rescued Pitt Bull mix)!! But make certain that it is the best situation for you and the cat-keeping in mind that it will be months before you hold a cuddly pet if it is ferral.
Good luck!!
The other answers enjoy good ideas, here are two more: (1) There may be a group in your town that will loan you a trap where on earth you put some food inside and then when the cat goes in the door will close, you could ask the local animal shelter almost this, or (2) If you can't or don't want to catch him you can make or buy a small shelter for him and put some blankets or old clothes contained by it. Good luck!
i think you have a new pet!
you could keep giving him food and warm milk at regular times and don't do anything to him. i'd read aloud if you do it for a week (feed him twice or three times a day) he'll get used to you.
when you get some free time after that week you could endow with him the food and sit still about 2 meters away from it and wait for him. he'll associate you near warm food by then and he'll be less afraid.
you could also try to sign out the door open a bit after that so he could come in if he requirements to. you could leave some of the food near the door but inside your house to lure him in but don't force him to anything.
try putting food within the doorway and waiting for it to come. if it gets comfortable doing this it may let you give somebody a lift it. if that doesn't work, try to make a harmless trap
coax him inside with food. spend a bit of time in recent times moving normally around your back yard so he get more comfortable with you. if by winter you cant get it inside manufacture up a little bed and put a hot water bottle in nearby. after a few days of that i think youll have him thinking your ok :) good luck
Answers: As other people have suggested, coax him by gradually placing the food closer and closer to your door.
Regarding the comments by Nikki, I wouldn't be so concerned more or less spraying if this is a kitten. Even some adult unneutered cats are not interested in spraying, so it adjectives depends. Assuming that you will take him to the vet or an animal sanctuary shortly after you bring him indoors, I doubt he will get settled enough to want to spray, besides.
Also, not all cats qualify as "messy." Some are very fastidious, whereas others are approaching the feline version of Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen.
Thank you for your concern about this little cat. :)
please u call for to catch him and save the little kittys life, whether u keep feeding him he will stick around, then slowly try to nurture him from ur hand and he will get more comfy with you and grab hold of his butt!
Just preserve feeding him. Start moving the food closer to your door, eventually bringing it inside, then one day loaf behind the door, when he comes in close the door and drop a blanket on it. Slowly pick it up and unwrap it and reassuringly pet it. evenyually it'll calm down and I don`t know you'll even have a cool new pet
