My room mate rescued three feral kittens and their mother on Friday. They were found hanging out by the bins in one of the out buildings where she works. They are currently at the local cat rescue who have listed the kittens as eight weeks old and semi feral and the mother as feral and unable to be domesticated - she will be sent back to where she came from if she hasn't got feline aids or anything else which could be spread around the colony.
We are going to home one of the kittens... the one in the middle, she's called Bella. The ginger is a boy called Ben and the tortoiseshell is called Valerie...
We went to see them yesterday and they were very frightened. With the most gentle approach I was only able to very lightly touch them before the hissing started and Ben made a swipe for me. I figured best leave it at that for the time being. We've both kept cat since we were kids so know what a cat needs but have no experience with furry little ferel creatures... any advice to help us getting it used to us and our house would be much appreciated. Ah... and we already have a four yr old Bengal cat with us which we have had for a couple of years.
Kev
