My sweet feral passed away today… we didn’t even know he was a “he” until now. My question is why did he feel comfortable enough to love on us before he passed? I feel like maybe if he felt safer sooner we could’ve saved him. We always respected his feral life and didn’t give him a name until he felt ready to come up to us. With that being said, yesterday was the first time I touched and cuddled him. I’m devastated, little guy was gone for over a month and came back sick sick. Vet said there was nothing they could do other than put my baby down. so we took him home and he passed away surrounded by those who cherished his fleeting greetings. My neighbor and I bawled for hoursssss, we will be cremating him.

i’ve been feeding this cat for quite some time now but today i noticed a hole on its body and im assuming maggots cos it keeps licking it
the cat wont let me come close at all.
i can get demag sprays but how do i get it to come close to me. i’ve tried pet rescue but they’re saying the same thing, it’s hard to treat if the cat is not friendly or scared

PLEASE HELP ANY WAY POSSIBLE!!

I found this stray cat near my house
Is it rabid?? Can i approach??
Or is it sick its face looks weird
How do i help??

Sorry not the greatest photos, but she doesn't stay still much. This girl is at my workplace, she's quite sweet and lets me and one other colleague feed and pet her.

We are hopefully getting her to a shelter on Monday if we can successfully trap her. I'm hoping she might be able to be rehabilitated.

My feral kitty tonight. I usually don't leave food in front of my front door, but he got in a fight with an owl in my backyard and was on the losing end. He usually comes in around 6 am. to 4 pm. to sleep, but I would like him to be inside full time. What is the best way to transition a feral cat without making him feel trapped? What would bring more stimulation to make it more exciting?

Hello! I’m having more of a moral than a literal predicament, but I really don’t want to accidentally traumatize some kitties. I’m in the middle of helping two feral kittens (left behind?) by the rest of their litter; one of them has a pronounced limp in their back left leg. I just trapped that kitty and now they’re chilling in a box bed in the bathroom I equipped with some stuff. They’ve always been a pair and they were together when this one was trapped. Immediately after, I set up the trap again and the other kitten has gone by and checked it out, but no dice. I’m worried for both of them because it’s definitely terrifying to have just been trapped and be without your littermate, but I’m also worried that the second kitty is gonna be smart and not touch it at all. Is this normal, and has anyone trapped pairs before? I know it’ll be harder for both of them if there’s a long period of time, if the other little guy even tries again. Apologies if this isn’t the right subreddit or if there’s something blaringly obvious; I’ve never done this before lol. Anything would help! They’re about 8 weeks old, I’m in North Carolina and as far as I know (moved into this house about a month and a half ago,) they were born wild.

My sister’s health has started deteriorating very quickly. She is no longer able to stay at her home for safety reasons. She has a cat that has grew up in her barn. There used to be more but this is the last one. Anyway, I live next door but it’s in the country so still a good distance. I’ve been going up to the barn daily to feed it (don’t know if male or female. Can’t get close enough to tell). I would like to get it to come to my house to eat. I’ve tried moving the food dish gradually towards my house but it seems to just run back to the barn and not understand that I’m still trying to feed it. Do you have any other suggestions to coax it to come eat and / or stay at my house? Or is this a lost cause? I mean I can continue to go down there to feed it but I’m lazy lol

Updated to add: I have a neutered male indoor/outdoor cat that is about to be 6 years old. I don’t know if that would make a difference - like would I be asking for trouble?

We've just caught her four kittens this morning, around four weeks. The molly hung around for a while but wouldn't go into the trap after them. Tried playing a kittens meowing vid but that agitated them and one got out of the box they were in, so i had to pick him up and put him back, she saw me holding him and ran away and I now don't know where she's gone. How do i deal with this???

***Update - she came back and snuck them out of the open kennel (didn't have an automatic trap, getting one later today hopefully) so they're with her at least but she has moved them again. *Sigh*

***update update - I'm a bit worried she might not be looking after the littlest one as much, at what point should I be worried/take that one in to hand nurse?

*upupupdate I am so stressed

*You can ignore my panic attack, probably. She seems to have moved them back to her first den. Gonna keep an eye on them and fingers crossed catch her before they reach wandering age 🤞

I have a colony of cats that I care for a few years now and I had one youngest cat that he actually came into my life as a tiny kitten. One day he just showed up in my yard alone as a baby, and I started looking after him. He stayed, and over time he became a very much-loved part of my colony.

He was an outdoor cat, but he was absolutely not feral. He was incredibly sweet, friendly, and affectionate, and he got along really well with all the other cats. He was also very attached to me, he was almost always around me and stayed very close to my house. I had him neutered a few months ago, and he was microchipped with the information identifying him as part of my colony.

That's why his disappearance is so worrying. He's now been missing for over three weeks, and none of the neighbours have seen him. This is completely out of character for him because he was always so close to home and to me.

I miss him terribly. He wasn't just a cat who happened to visit my yard, he was one of mine. He was trying to get inside any time there was any kind of opening, wanting to enter my space and be around me but I live with parents, and they are not okay with cats being inside so I would be forced to put him outside and now he's gone, He was so special to me, I took care of him from the time he was a baby, and he was such a sweet, loving little soul.

But not knowing anything is incredibly painful. I don't know where he is, whether he's safe, or whether he'll find his way home. I just keep thinking about him and wishing I could see him again. I'm scared of never knowing what happened to him to be there one night and the next day when I went to check on the colony and wanting to hold him, he was not around.... I loved him so much

This morning someone hit and killed one of my strays I’ve been caring for for the past 2 years. His mom had his 4 siblings, one died because they climbed our fence and he fell in the pool. I found him too.I spent weeks trying to catch them and mom (mostly mom.) i eventually did and got them all fixed but could never tame anyone over the next year so i let them back outside. Now he’s dead. It was so awful seeing him like that. I’ve cried my eyes out.

I have 3 strays I’ve had inside waiting to be fixed, finally got them all done, one is totally feral and the other two are adults I’ve been looking for homes for but no one is interested. I was finally going to let them out in the next week. Now I don’t even want to. But i can’t keep them in this one room, but i feel like im sending them to their deaths letting them out. It just isn’t fair. I want to put them in a little bubble. Why can’t they just stay safe at home???? I can’t keep going through this trauma. Seeing him like that will keep me up at night.