Feral Kitten Movie Trailer

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 us. Slowly they began to come around, completely in line with the order in which we caught them. The relationship was linear...more socialization, better, more affectionate kittens!

We eventually took them to the vet and learned they had a respiratory infection and, thankfully, no FIV or Leukemia. Some Clavimox for ten days knocked out the infection, and now, about six weeks after we caught them, they have undergone an amazing transformation. They are friendly, loving and playful as you'd expect from any kitten. When we go into their room, they all come bounding out to meet us, purring like you wouldn't believe. We even began locking our big cats into the bedroom and letting the kittens run around the entire house for an hour everyday. They love it!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Cats
• Kittens
• animals

[katsonya]

you did an awesome job of creating this video

does Pita stand for Pain In The Ass? - that's the name I gave one of our rescued cats

[drsalvaria]

You're exactly right! Pita is a true pain, but he's becoming more socialized every day.

[angledog]

Adorable Kittens, and great message. :) Awesome Job!!!

[LEHILGS]

Oh man You are so right....I really liked that...Funny.

[drawit4me]

This is an awesome video!