How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: caught a teeny tiny black kitten

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: caught a teeny tiny black kitten

Laurie, What a great cat you have!  Flush and your mouse is gone! 
It's a good thing I am planning to go to my parents tomorrow. There is an even teenier kitten in a different live trap. I gave it food and water, carefully, and put the trap inside for the night on a feed sack.  It's as wild as a March Hare racing around with it's claws out in a frenzy,and has really long claws for a teeny thing. Wonder if someone dumped their kittens at night here. We've had cats dumped here many times before. If they are trainable adults we've fixed, paid my vet to keep them a week to see if they could be socialized, and kept the tame ones. Barney was the best and hunted with Maggie, both took on fox, adult wild rabbits, and everything that crossed the property line that didn't belong   here. They even enlisted the horses and goats help. 
I want my cat from Dave and am not going to take on a feral kitten. 
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM Michigan

    From: Laurie Hayes <lkornoff@pacbell.net>
 To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:56 PM
 Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101]   Re: caught a teeny tiny black kitten

                         My one cat will play with the mouse till its dead -- if he catches it in the house, he put it in the toilet -- outside he leaves it by the door
Laurie

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    From: zilla963 <zilla963@yahoo.com>
 To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:10 AM
 Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: caught a teeny tiny black kitten

 awww... hopefully he will pull thru.. 
  I soooo want a kitten but my adult cat will probably have a fit (longer than normal adjustment) and being as we rent, I do NOT need him marking inside the house in retaliation ... but we could really use another mouser/chipmonker outside.. my old boy is getting lax in his years spending more time sleeping inside  ..only catches for fun and often releases them! 

  I wish I could "try" a kitten out to see if we could get past that initial period ... but that wouldnt be fair to the kitten, my cat, or the owner that would take him back if it didnt... so ... I wait.. hoping to find one in my barn that my adult cat has already "adopted" ... we'll see if that ever happens!! 