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Old 05-27-2010, 05:10 PM
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I just freed a stray kitten from my woodpile and she's hiding in the bushes and we can't find her. It's cold and raining (of course). Animal control is all out of hav-a-hart traps (apparently it's kitten season), and Home Despot is closed for the night.

Kitty is really scared of people, so she's a wild stray. DH's friend at animal control told him if he still hears the kitten crying to get a trap tomorrow. Sigh.

It's a cute little thing, but I dont' know that we can adopt another kitten right now. My oldest cat still hasn't accepted Panzi, and she's been here 2 years!
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Old 05-27-2010, 05:12 PM
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can you put a bowl of warm milk out and maybe it can drink and put some food out, take care
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DH has a pet carrier out there already, with nice towels and food, but it won't catch the kitten. I'm hoping it's big enough to be weaned - it looked that way.
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Maybe it will go in there when it feels like the danger of the humans coming back has lessened. Do you have the carrier entrance kind of burried in the bushes?
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Awww poor little one :(
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Old 05-27-2010, 06:08 PM
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I hope you can coax him into the carrier. I hate to see them out in the elements. I wish more people would neuter their pets. My old neighbor would trap the strays in our neighborhood and take them in to be fixed.
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Poor kitty. Hope you catch it!
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I have a stray that just showed up one day. It fights with my outside cat. Beats him up all the time. We have a shelter near by but it is not a no kill. So I don't want to take him there. But if I drop him off (in the next county) I don't think that's right (I think someone did that because he is very friendly with people. Decisions, decisions.
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DH and DD caught the kitten while I was at a "PTA" dinner.

He's spending the night in a carrier in the basement bathroom until we get him cleared by a vet for contact with our 2 other housecats.

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that's very kind of you.
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