Feral 3 kittens and 1 mamma cat? How should I catch em?!?!

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yesterday I was outside and saw 3 about 2 month old kittens with a mamma cat. So I meowed at them and they came up half way. I decided to walk up and see if they would let me touch em. 2 ran away very quickly and 1 just sat there sleeping? I saw it's eyes were shut and it had some kind of goo dripping out of its eyes and crust around the eyes!!! I touch it and it freaked out and ran FULL SPEED INTO A WALL!!!! IT CANT SEE! I do not have a humane trap to try and trap them so what shall I do?? Also mamma kitty is very skinny and so are all 3 kittens. How should I help them?!?!
Thank you and I really hope you can help!
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It looked like this picture I found online but with more goo and eyes closed shut!
Any help would be appreciated
Thank you
~Kaylie~
 
My dad found kittens like tgat year before last. Leave food out and become a fixture. Then you will slowly build trust and be able to capture them. If the humane society cant/wont take them, as inhis case, he rinsed the kittens eyes daily with a saline solution n gently cleaned it then applied ointment to it. Its not his cat persay, but still hangs around (he also got her fixed) but it wouldnt have survived w/o his intervention
 
Just get a damp cloth and clean the I don't try to open it with your finger if it's probably won't work. Damp cloth massages in till it opens you probably going to need that do that a few times a day if not at least when it closes.

Put out wet kitten cat food. Once they get the taste for it they will get hooked!

So put out the cat food sit next to it and wait. Feral cats are super hard to catch and they probably will never build that Trust to come to you regardless of how long you feed them.

Some organization is connected to your town that will be able to take care of them you just got to find out who they are.
 
A warm cloth or cotton ball will work to clean the eye. Some eye ointment would help. If I were you, I would put the kitten you can catch on your lap and feed it bits of tuna or canned food by hand. You may have to put the tuna it its mouth a few times. I have tamed a number of wild kittens this way. If you have a cage you can put it in it would help. How tameable feral kittens are depends a lot on the individual cat. I have had a least two kittens that were obviously lost come up to me in the barn. These two kittens had never been touched or handled before that day. I was able to tame these in very short order and they became wonderful house cats. I gave one to my mother and the other to a friend.
 
Live traps work well, with canned cat food. ASAP, so you can treat and tame these babies as young kittens.
Every one has good suggestions here, but I want to add a warning; DON"T get bitten! If you do, make sure you have the individual caught who bit you, so it can be quarantined and/or tested for rabies. Do not ignore this little detail, because feral cats can be infected, and so can you.
I hope you can get them to a rescue, or take them to your veterinarian, for treatment, worming, etc.
Good luck!
Mary
 

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