FERAL INCOMING!!!! Three More Kittens Just Arrived From The Hoarder's Trailer (#651-653)

Hey, everyone.

Just heartbreaking.

These three kittens just arrived from the hoarder's trailer, where they were kept inside and without sunlight from the moment they were taken in by him.

The man is mentally ill and genuinely loves the cats but is incapable of understanding how to care for them.

It is so very sad.

The orange and stripped kittens are so feral they cannot be touched – we can't even tell if they are male or female – while the grey boy kitten is nothing but love and is starved for human contact.

It is so hard to figure out how all of these cats came from the same situation.

What is indisputable is that they are full of worms and fleas and suffer from upper respiratory infections and eye infections.

The little grey has mites in his ears that are so bad he can barely stand up due to bad balance because of an inner ear infection... That is why his head is tilted in all the pictures!

It is going to be a long road back to health for these babies.

Here are a few more pictures of the little ones...

FIERCE!

Pensive

Tilted!

Updates will keep rolling in.

FERAL INCOMING!!!! Hoarder Kept Dozens Of Cats And Kittens In His Trailer With No Light Or Fresh Air (#647-650)

Hey all!

These are the cases you hate to see.

We were alerted that a mentally ill man was hoarding cats and kittens in his small trailer, which he had blackened out all the windows and kept tightly sealed all day long.

The man – who genuinely loved the cats – did not know he was hurting them, but the conditions were so bad and unsanitary that they all had upper respiratory ailments, eye infections, and were terribly underweight.

The above pictures were taken almost two weeks after the cats arrived here with us giving them constant antibiotics (Clavamox), Terramycin for their eyes, and fleas meds.

You can imagine the shape they were in when they got here.

There are at least 12 more that are either headed here or to foster homes.

These little ones are very feral and hate being handled... This is going to be a tough socialization that could take months.

Here are a few more pictures of the babies as they are getting used to being in the intake room with access to sunlight and fresh air...

We are receiving 3 more of these poor kittens today so updates to come.

FERAL UPDATE!!!! BIG BOI Is On The Mend!!!! (VIDEO)

BIG BOI eating a Squeeze Up! YAY!

Hey all!

This BIG BOI was in rough shape when he first got here, but slowly and surely, he's getting better.

He has the fighting spirit of a full-grown tiger and a head that is just about as big.

We can tell he's on the mend because his appetite has picked up, and he's even demanding tubes of "squeeze-ups" for lunch.

To give you an idea of just what we're dealing with here, I filmed myself giving him the treat, and he even took a swing at me... Made me so happy!

If BOG BOI is gonna go back to the colony and rule the roost like he did, he's going to have to be at his fighting weight, and if he keeps eating like this, that shouldn't be too long!

Without further ado, here is "Lunchtime With BIG BOI!"...

FERAL INCOMING!!!! Colony's BIG BOI Was Attacked By A Predator And Almost Died (#646)

Hey all!

This BIG man is the top dog – as it were – of a large feral colony a couple of miles outside of Riverhead, New York.

The colony is taken care of by a group of kind people from around the neighborhood, and we have done several TNRs for them over the years.

Last week we got a call that the leader of the colony was attacked, possibly by a neighborhood dog, fox, or coyote, and was in bad shape.

When we trapped him he was close to death.

His ears had been ripped off, and while his open wounds weren't overwhelming, it was the internal damage to his organs, including his bladder, that was scary.

He was sedated and catheterized, and given intravenous fluids until he stabilized.

He miraculously pulled through – because he's a really tough guy - and is now on the mend in our shelter until he is well enough to go home and rule the roost once again.

We have decided to call him BIG BOI – yes, all cap locked – because he has the most enormous, most magnificent head we have EVER seen!

Updates to come.

FERAL INCOMING!!!! An Upset Boy With A Painful Ear Polyp (#645)

Hey everyone,

A few weeks ago we got a call from a woman about her backyard feral, saying her boy wasn't doing well and that he had some kind of damage to the left side of his head.

The woman said she was worried and asked if we could come and trap him and get him to the vet.

After trapping him, we realized that there was a problem with his ear and that whatever it was he was not happy about it.

It turns out he had a very painful polyp growing in his ear and that it needed to be removed.

Luckily the polyp was benign, but he would need to be held for a week until his ear healed.

The big boy is now hold up in the intake room, enjoying the A/C and unlimited food until he heals up.

He may look sweet, but no pets for this man unless you want trouble!

I think he wants to go home!!!!

FERAL INCOMING!!!! A Sweet Girl Just In For A Spay And Release (#644)

Hey everyone, this little girl just came in earlier this week and has already been to the vet to get her shots and has been spayed.

She belongs to a colony of cats that we had TNR'd a few years ago, and the person who takes care of them lets us know when someone new shows up so we can help them out before they – for lack of a better term - get knocked up!

She is doing just fine and seems very sweet, and we would attempt to socialize her, but the person who watches the colony said she would be missed if we kept her.

So little miss here will get some good rest, stay out of the heat, and get fattened up for a few days, and then she will rejoin her friends.

She's such a sweetie!

FERAL INCOMING!!!! 2 Beautiful Orange And White Beauties For July 4th! (642-643)

Happy 4th of July EVERYONE!

This brother and sister duo showed up a couple of days ago just in time for the fireworks and festivities.

Their story is actually quite sad though.

They were trapped and fixed but never released and remained in small cages separately for months until someone finally asked if we would socialize them.

Though we have a full house with the whole mess o' kittens we are presently socializing we couldn't say no to this pair.

When they got here there was no touching them. 

They were terrified and you could literally see their skin tense and shiver every time we touched them.

They never hissed or growled or lashed out they just were unbelievably scared and unused to human touch...

It's been a few days now and after letting them get used to us giving them food and water and changing out their cages we have moved the two into the intake room where they can finally stretch their legs and lay out in the sun and sleep in a cat tree if they want.

It seems to have taken the edge off and they seem to be coming around.

Here are some pictures we just took and they seem much more relaxed and even let us pet them without any fear...

PROGRESS!