Help: Kittens!

Don
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Hey All,

I have been feeding a stray for a while now... she is learning to trust me but recently (Friday night) decided to have kittens in our garage.

I have tried calling the RSPCA about it but they will not do anything about them as they are not injured or needing help :\

Any ideas what I should do? Just keep feeding the mother and hope she feeds the kittens? Hand rear the kittens? I do not have a clue. I have a couple of pics:

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I'm really totally clueless on this.

Stelly
 
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Keep feeding the mum and she will provide milk as I dont think they are old enough to eat for themselves yet.

I hope its not too cold in your garage.
 
Leave as much good as she will eat down. Preferably a high quality, grain free wet food but anything is better than nothing. I think kitten food his higher in nutrients for a lactating mother if its a true kitten food.

Try and keep where she is warm and comfortable. Moving them is probably a bad idea.

Have you seen her? Is she feeding the regularly? Does she look OK?

If the kittens survive. What are your plans? Are you going to keep her and the kittens?
 
Leave as much good as she will eat down. Preferably a high quality, grain free wet food but anything is better than nothing. I think kitten food his higher in nutrients for a lactating mother if its a true kitten food.

Try and keep where she is warm and comfortable. Moving them is probably a bad idea.

Have you seen her? Is she feeding the regularly? Does she look OK?

If the kittens survive. What are your plans? Are you going to keep her and the kittens?


I didnt want to move them either, didnt want my smell on them and putting the mother off...

I saw her Friday night and then again tonight and I put some tuna down for her as well... she looked really fine... smaller but fine :) very cautious about going into the garage but I'm guessing this is because she wants to make sure that the Kittens are okay?

Feeding I'm not sure... she will not go in the garage with me in there... she waits untill I close the door then goes in...

Stelly
 
Hello Stelly well done for looking after them. As others have said keep feeding mum so she can keep feeding her little ones. Below is a link where you can seek help and advise, just whack your post code details into the "post code search finder" and you'll find your nearest Cats Protection branch.


Cat Protection League ;)
 
I didnt want to move them either, didnt want my smell on them and putting the mother off...

I saw her Friday night and then again tonight and I put some tuna down for her as well... she looked really fine... smaller but fine :) very cautious about going into the garage but I'm guessing this is because she wants to make sure that the Kittens are okay?

Feeding I'm not sure... she will not go in the garage with me in there... she waits untill I close the door then goes in...

Stelly

Shes just being protective I expect. Maybe she doesn't know you know they are there and so wont let you see them together.

Either way, just keep her well fed and she should feed the kittens fine. Is the garage very cold at the moment?

With my kittens we had to hand feed them as well as from their mum as she wasn't producing enough milk for all 4. She let us do this though probably because she knew she couldn't cope and we are her owners. I wouldn't worry though.

On a final note, kittens (even 4) are awesome!
 
Exact same thing happened to me. I contacted the RSPCA and they gave me the local numbers of cats protection league members who quickly came and took the Felines so they could be re-homed once weened.

They spaded the mother (free of charge I might add) and gave her back to us.
 
If you don't want to adopt them - go back to the RSPCA and tell them you've got 4 abandoned kittens and a mother in your garage. They will come out.
Don't know who you got on the phone to say "no, they are fine".
From what my brother's fiancée tells me they will come out in this kind of situation.
 
The garage is not too bad at the moment, they survived last night and it was cold last night but I didnt know she was going to have them last night.

Is it worth me getting this Kitten food??

I think that the fact that she had the kittens in the garage shows that she feels protected and fine there right?

Stelly
 
We have a cat (from the cats protection league), so I'm pretty sure I know what they look like.

All I'm seeing in those pictures though is a lot of foam and a black lump, are there really animals there?
 
We have a cat (from the cats protection league), so I'm pretty sure I know what they look like.

All I'm seeing in those pictures though is a lot of foam and a black lump, are there really animals there?

Yup.

I didnt want to get too close to them at the time... might try and get better ones when I check up on them tomorrow.

Stelly
 
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