Their story started as a sad one, but is really looking up. Their mom was a feral cat who lived in the woods behind our house. She was a skinny little cat who we thought was just a kitten herself. One day she showed up with five tiny kittens, probably no more than a week old, and put them in the engine compartment of our truck. There they lived for a week or two...all the while our truck was useless because we never knew if a kitten was hiding somewhere in there. We'd see them out in the yard occasionally, but if we ever walked outside, they'd run for the hills. They were totally terrified of humans. From what we could see from inside our house, they looked undernourished, with snotty noses and gooey eyes. Being real cat lovers, we knew we had to try something. We made the executive decision to bring them indoors and keep them in a spare bedroom (we have three big cats who live indoors, so we wanted to keep them separate in case they had FIV or Feline Leukemia). Catching them was a real challenge. As their mom was feral, they were taught to be afraid of humans. We worked on catching them for about two weeks. One by one we would catch them by throwing open the hood of the truck and surprising them. Once they were inside, we started working on socializing them. It consisted of going in and sitting with them for 10 minutes every hour for the entire day. Then we worked up and would stay longer. At first (as you can see from the first pictures, they wanted nothing to do with ...
Keywords: Cats, Kittens, animals
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