Yes, the scaredy cats need a lot of immersion therapy (or so they call it with us humans and our phobias!). If you could get someone to come over and carry the scared ones around as much as possible.. it would help. and just blab at them. There are these things you can buy in catalogues that hold feral kittens at your stomach so you can go about your regular house buisness with them. Kinda like a baby sling thing in the front but for the kittens. My friend, Queenscoopalot, says pooh pooh on these contraptions; save money by making one yourself by putting on a large t-shirt and pinning it up around the kitten. It forces them to get familiar with people smells and sounds and motions while keeping them in a dark, secure "womb". Me, I just bug them in the cage and force them to hours of talk. But, then, I haven't been able to engage in any real socializing in a couple of years because of my job hours (and commute into Boston every day). I no longer have the time for what they need. There's a foster mother here on the North Shore, who, from what I've been told, has been extremely successul in desensitizing ferals to sounds and people because she is wheelchair bound and somehow has the feral strapped to her lap all day (maybe same concept as t-shirt, I don't know her). Unfortunatly, it mostly boils down to time... and there is so little...keep up the good work and use your resources! (above volunteer!)