Please try to convince your husband to bring her in BEFORE she has her kittens. It's starting to get colder out and the babies could pass away quickly, there are also predators out there, plus the later you trap the kittens the harder it is to tame them. It would be a sad thing if a fereal colony were started. We have too many of those already. Perhaps you should take her to the Humane Society. She needs somewhere safe to have her kittens, please make sure she has them inside.


I have worked with several feral cats and kittens and have raised several kittens from the bottle. With feral kittens you must handle them even if they do not like it, whereas with older cats you just try as hard as you can not to force them, and either they come around or they don't. I have had a huge success taming even older feral with a little love and compassion, as well as food.

I remember clearly one of my rescued feral kittens. She was out in the back alley one day with her mother. I took a can of cat food and kept throwing the food closer to me, and when she turned her head I grabbed her by the scruff and took her inside our apartment. I was 16 at the time. Every night she would call for her mother, who would sit under my bedroom window and they would talk to eachother. I often thought it sad to hear this, but I knew that I did the right thing because she was inside, safe, fed and loved. Her mother unfortunately got squished between an electric fence in the apartments behind us, which is where the alley is. One neighbor even went as far as poisoning the ferals there.

I was the only one who fed and cared for those cats. I felt even better after the kitten was diagnosed with a heart problem, and I knew that if she would have stayed feral there would have been no way she would have survived.

I took in two more litters that year. One of which the mother had out in plain site (and the kids in the area were not too nice) under a dumpster. As much as the mom protested to me taking her babies, I took them inside and fostered them. All found great homes! Another litter had bad luck after I found them dead bolt locked in a water heater wooded box. We had to get a flashlight and actually use a crowbar to break open the box to free the kittens. For the longest time I could hear them crying but I could not find them anywhere, until I got to the box and knew they were in there. Luckily they all survived, but I was very angry at whomever put them in there to rot!


I totally went off subject, but whenever the topic of ferals comes up it just pulls at my heartstrings. It's just not a way you want a cat to live.

I am very passionate about ferals, and as you know my new kitten Ewok was a bottle baby who would have been feral if he were not brought to me to bottle raise.

Make sure you get some good quality kitten food to feed her since she will need all the extra calories and protein she could get. I would suggest getting some KMR milk replacer and a couple bottles just in case something goes wrong and you need to bottle feed the kittens. You can also try offering her some Nutrical as well, which is a high calorie palatable supplement which you can get through your local vet or Petsmart.


Good luck and let us know how it goes. But please again, if you cannot take her inside please find someone who will. If my bf were to suggest otherwise, I would throw him outside and the cat would sleep on my bed! Naughty naughty men! Of course, Dan adores cats so I wouldn't have a problem there thank goodness!