Fluff and Puff

Puff

Fluff and Puff are two long haired black kittens.  They were trapped in Newport News in a very difficult location.  Their Mom has eluded capture for a long time and these are not the first kittens from there.

The kittens were TN'ed and estimated to be 2 months old.  Two little girls.  Lots of petting and holding.  They will come around and be put up for adoption.

Fluff

Feb 13 - Fluff found her forever home.  We finished Puff's drops on Feb 13 also and she went to Petsmart and had a lot of interest but after much consideration and thought she didn't get adopted.  Both will get rabies vaccine either Thurs and Monday and then Puff will then be available for adoption

Jan 22 - They had their dose of "human" this morning.  I petted and picked up both - one at a time.  Fluff is making quicker progress.  Kittens either freeze when their scared or they try to run away.  Fluff is the former and Puff is the latter.  They look a lot alike so they must remain separated.  If I could tell them apart I might put them together so that they could keep each other warmer at night and separate for the day to work with them.  Feral kittens socialize faster when they are separated thus they are separated.  With several folks coming by to love and handle them I'm hoping that in 2 months they'll be socialized and be able to put up for adoption.

Jan 20 - kittens delivered to my garage.  Temperature is tolerable since there is some local heat near the cages.

Jan 19 - kept at another volunteers home - weather awfully cold and concern about keeping them warm after surgery

Jan 18 - surgery at No More Chasin Tails - They estimated at 2 months.  Until look at teeth hard to estimate.  They could be older and just underweight.  Kept overnight.

Mom still eludes capture.  My suggestions for trapping.

a)  noone else can feed and there needs to be help from local neighbors to make sure they aren't fed.  Signs need to be posted to keep people from feeding and know that trapping is in progress.   As long as someone else is feeding them she will never be trapped.
b)  leave traps locked open and the cats only fed in the traps for several days.  If they want to eat they need to go in trap.  How many cats are there?  I know there is the Mom but are there any other cats there that have already been TNRed.  Complete inventory of what cats are there and enough traps to get everyone.  I would prefer also doing drop trap.  They have to eat in normal trap or under a drop trap whether or not you actually catch them
c)  set the normal traps after several days

It would help to know details of where they are actually living and finding shelter.  If she gets pregnant again and has another litter it would be best to know where she actually is keeping them and use them as bait to get her but putting them in a carrier backed up to a trap.