BYC Café

[sourland]

How tame did she become?

If she approaches and makes first contact, you can pet her, and she will arch and rub against your legs. She will 'talk' continually while doing this. If you attempt to approach her she will retreat. I would never attempt to pick her up.

 

[sourland]

@ronott1 go to my thread 'Ivermectin use in cats', post #105. This is the day that she 'made contact' - the look on my face says it all. 6 years after she first appeared.

 

[aart]

@ronott1 go to my thread 'Ivermectin use in cats', post #105. This is the day that she 'made contact' - the look on my face says it all. 6 years after she first appeared.

I could see her tracks in the snow, but she did not come to greet me. Just now she was on the deck so I took some old cold cuts out to her. I put them in the food bowl, and it happened. She arched her back and rubbed against my hand.

I stood still, she repeated and I very gingerly petted her - she started purring. I am stoked.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Our black and white is inside Tuxedo is his name ... We did not let the feral three from the shasta till they had trust in us

 

[ronott1]

If she approaches and makes first contact, you can pet her, and she will arch and rub against your legs. She will 'talk' continually while doing this. If you attempt to approach her she will retreat. I would never attempt to pick her up.

The female cat from the rescue we have is similar. She does not like to be picked up!

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 go to my thread 'Ivermectin use in cats', post #105. This is the day that she 'made contact' - the look on my face says it all. 6 years after she first appeared.

Very nice!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Looks like a cat I had, except mine was long haired.

 

[DobieLover]

I hope a bit of out and about works for them. I can still recall how upset I was when Myth attacked her chicks and left me to finish the job.
I don't let junior, or temperamentally doubtful hens sit any more.

I snapped.
She's done.
She's in the broody breaker in the run and there she'll stay for at least three days.
The chicks peeped and carried on for about 15 minutes before dusk started to set in. I put a fresh bowl of very wet Flock Raiser mash in for them and dripped a little in front of them and they attacked it. One little Millie started scratching around. The big mouth complainers are the Sebrights. They'll get used to not having her. She's a horror. They are better off on their own. But...
@bruceha2000, your comment about an auntie gave me the following outlandish idea.
I moved Astrid and her nest into the maternity ward with the 6 bantam chicks. She's been right on the other side of the HC watching them for 8 days. I took one of the Millies and held it in front of her. She just looked at it. I set it down on the edge of her nest. It ran across the nest in front of her and she just watched it. No puffing up, no screeching.
She did seem a bit upset over the distress peeping of the chicks when I quite literally threw their "mother" out the door and closed it but sat tight on her nest. I had to get her and the eggs out of it to get it back in the brooder but she walked right into the ward and climbed on and everyone is in there now. As is the brooder plate which I had to tuck the chicks under because they had no idea that was their new "mother".
I'm sure I will be up at the crack of dawn to see how everyone is.
So help me, I wouldn't even care if that stupid bird Veronica was dead in the broody breaker.
I don't know if anyone remembers me mentioning when Malcolm had his accident that I didn't know if one of the hens went off and killed him and I wrote that Veronica just wasn't normal. I NEVER should have allowed that bird to set. I should have stuck with my instincts. Well I'm going with them now with Astrid. I think she'll be good to the chicks while she finishes hatching out her brood. The bantams are so tiny I bet they won't be much bigger than Astrid's chicks when they hatch and I hope that if the bantams are in with her while she incubates her clutch she will care for them when she takes her chicks off the nest. We'll have to see how it all shakes out in 12 days.

 

[DobieLover]

In all honesty I tried to box trap her so that I could euthanize her. Even though starving she would not go in the box trap. Trap/neuter/release ? She evidently is spayed as she has never had kittens. Yeah, I couldn't let her starve so started feeding her. When I say 'feral', I mean wilder than a fox in the back yard. It took MANY years, but she eventually came to trust me, and then trust the Princess.

That's a true blue feral.
The mother cat I've been feeding has an appointment to be spayed Aug 12 when I surrender her and the kittens to ACC. I think their father showed up this morning as a black cat darted through the back yard. Two of her kittens are black.
I picked up one of the kittens this morning without much fuss. Not for very long and only at the breakfast plate.
When I finished working for the day I went out back to check on them and couldn't see mom. Then I spotted her up on a built in corner table on the deck sound asleep. I started approaching her and calling to her and she woke up, hopped down, meowed at me, walked up and rubbed against my leg. I was quite surprised. I tried to pet her but she pulled away. Still. Progress.

 

[ronott1]

That's a true blue feral.
The mother cat I've been feeding has an appointment to be spayed Aug 12 when I surrender her and the kittens to ACC. I think their father showed up this morning as a black cat darted through the back yard. Two of her kittens are black.
I picked up one of the kittens this morning without much fuss. Not for very long and only at the breakfast plate.
When I finished working for the day I went out back to check on them and couldn't see mom. Then I spotted her up on a built in corner table on the deck sound asleep. I started approaching her and calling to her and she woke up, hopped down, meowed at me, walked up and rubbed against my leg. I was quite surprised. I tried to pet her but she pulled away. Still. Progress.

Good for you getting her spayed!