Recently I discovered a litter of four kittens under the neighbor's house. The mother had the kittens outside and they haven't had any human contact. Which means they are wild and shy.
After a week of playing with Mama Kitty and offering small treats, the mom decided to move her kittens under my house. The kittens look around 5 or 6 weeks old. Well,the animal lover in me kept screaming "save the kittens from the life of a feral cat!" So I buy kitty food, start feeding them, and just hang out around them in order to get them accustomed to humans.
Anyways, lets skip over all that and get to the good part of the story. At this exact moment there are 4 kittens and a mama in my stairwell. I brought them in today. Well, it's more like I trapped them in rather than brought them in, but that is besides the point. I became nervous after seeing an opossum the night before and decided they would be safer inside.
I want to tame the kittens and find them homes. I have already found a potential home for one of them. My neighbor asked me if he could take one for his wife. So I will probably let them have whatever one becomes the most tame first. They have two cats already, both of which look healthy and have been spayed, so they seem like good candidates.
There is a crazy cat lady down the street who owns 30 cats of her own, plus she fosters cats until they find homes and she spays/neuters feral cats and provides them with food. Anyways, she offered to help me find homes for the kittens.
I want to insure the kittens are fixed so I'm thinking about requiring a deposit/adoption fee, which will be refunded after the new owners provide proof they spayed/neutered the cat. The deposit would only be $25, which is how much the clinic charges to fix a cat.
I would just keep them, but my landlord doesn't allow pets. I can't image how upset she would be if she knew they were inside right now.
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