Kitten Crying

lmahoney79

We have just caught two 12 week old feral kittens, one male one female. We have put them in a kitten pen in the living room to try get them used to humans so we can tame them for re-homing. But the male kittens keeps crying and meowing all the time over the past two days......anyone any ideas to help calm him down? anytime i go near the cage it just scares him more.

Graces7

lmahoney79 wrote: »

We have just caught two 12 week old feral kittens, one male one female. We have put them in a kitten pen in the living room to try get them used to humans so we can tame them for re-homing. But the male kittens keeps crying and meowing all the time over the past two days......anyone any ideas to help calm him down? anytime i go near the cage it just scares him more.

It may well be that this amount of exposure to people etc is too much too soon? Too public a place?

Try putting the pen somewhere quieter for a while until he settles a little bit? And maybe less light also, or cover part of the pen with a blanket;so he can hide.

It will take time. He is terrified just now

tk123

Would something like Feliway calm him at all?

Kimia

Wrap a ticking clock in a very soft fleecy blanket and put it in with him, and keep them somewhere warm.

Sigma Force

If the room they are in is kitten proof and escape proof at 12 weeks they will hate being shut into a pen anyway wether they were feral or not.

So if the room is kitten proof, leave the door of the kitten pen open if not already place a cardboard box or hidey place within the pen and cover the pen over with a blanket or half of it. So that way if they get spooked they have somewhere to hide.

Allow them to come out of the pen in their own time, it will take forever if they are only allowed out of the pen now and then so just keep the pen door open and they will come to you. Food and toys are a great way to bribe them.
Don't attempt to grab them they will come over to you in time, some kittens take longer than others. Sit on the floor with them and also if you can invest in a cat tree so they can climb up on it if they want to feel safe.

A bit of watered down cat milk (not cows milk) is a good bribery tool as well.

He might run out of the cage at first, climb some curtains (block the chimney and close any windows if they are in a room with a fireplace) or run around a bit but if you provide him with a hidey place and somewhere up high he can climb to he'll come back down in his own time.