"Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I was out in my back yard last night cutting down the overgrown tall
grass
>and weeds and found a couple new born kittens (looks to be a month or so
>old, old enough to run and scamper around) hidding in the tall grass and
>managed to rescue one of them that had tried to escape and got caught in
>the 2"x3" (or so) wire we have around the base of our fence (due to the
>fact that we used to have a dog in the yard trying to escape). The
kitten
>is real fisty and as my son calls it, "a kitten from hell, a demonic cat"
>(hisses and lashes at every movement around it [presently caged in a cat
>carrier]). Some told me last night that when a human handles the kitten,
>the mother cat will abandon it and let it wonder around and die. Would
>this young kitten return to it's family and be welcomed it we let it back
>out in the yard this evening after we managed to finish mowing the tall
>grass down and cleaning up the back yard?
>
> Secondly, if this kiten was born in the wild, can it be house trained
and
> would it be tame enough to live inside with humans?
>
Yes. - Even if it lives in the "wild" for several years, it can be
captured,
and retrained to live peacefully with humans. - I have a former feral cat
right now that we first started to feed about 5 years ago.....We never
"captured" it, but over the course of 5 years we have been able to
domesticate it just by feeding it and being kind to it. It has turned out
to
be a very polite cat.....Naturally housebroken, and tolerant of our other
cats. The usual way, however, is to trap the wild cat, and force it to
live
in the house with other inside cats.....In this way, you can domesticate
one
in a few weeks. (You do have to get them neutered, however.)
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