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Horrific Night
I was awakened at about 4am, I heard screams from the garage from one
or more of the 3 kittens staying there with there semi feral mom. I couldn't see in the garage from my bedroom but I could hear the sound of onr or more of them trying to climb into a drawer of a woodfen bainet I have in their. It was pouring rain and I was a bit groggy so I don't know exzactly what I heard. Maybe another animal had come into the garage and chased one of the kittens. Was it another cat, a rooster from the illegals living in the house behind mine, was it the Mother cat. Today I went into then garage looking for one of the 3 kittens, it was the kitten who was most fearful of humans, that being me when I brought them food it would run and hide in the garge and not come out until it was midnight. The other 2 kittens, one a runt is fearless and a white one who is reasonabley cautious but I have touched it while it feed. I found the kitten in a draw, it was viciously attacked, I mean the ****ing ears where ripped off and I couldn't even find the head. I can still hear it screeching and claweing against the wood of the dresser It was like Silence of the Lambs I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? |
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On Jun 4, 9:37 pm, Lynne wrote:
on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:31:04 GMT, wrote: I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? If it was the mother and she has been nursing and caring for the kittens, chances are good that there was something really wrong with the kitten that is now dead. Did you ever see that kitten? Do you know if it was nursing well, healthy, or even formed properly? If it wasn't the mother, you should probably close up the garage at night, eh? -- Lynne She had been caring for it. I could never get a good look at it becasue she took off whenever she heard any sound . I saw it from a distance and it was of good size but very very nervous, skittish, fearful compared to the other 2. The mother stands outside the garage at night guarding against a possum that sometimes comes thru looking for food but the possum couldn't have scaled the dresser draws. The Mom would have fought off any intruders or I would have heard the commotion. I live in downstate NY, aren't many wild animals around. I think you gave me the answer I'll live with. Something was wrong with the kitten and she killed it. Maybe the downpour made her or the kitten a little crazy. I took out he whole dresser sraw and laid it in the backyard after covering the kitten and the mother and kittens haven't gone near it. It has me in a very somber state. The screams and the scratching and then silence. FUp |
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oups.com... I was awakened at about 4am, I heard screams from the garage from one or more of the 3 kittens staying there with there semi feral mom. I couldn't see in the garage from my bedroom but I could hear the sound of onr or more of them trying to climb into a drawer of a woodfen bainet I have in their. It was pouring rain and I was a bit groggy so I don't know exzactly what I heard. Maybe another animal had come into the garage and chased one of the kittens. Was it another cat, a rooster from the illegals living in the house behind mine, was it the Mother cat. Today I went into then garage looking for one of the 3 kittens, it was the kitten who was most fearful of humans, that being me when I brought them food it would run and hide in the garge and not come out until it was midnight. The other 2 kittens, one a runt is fearless and a white one who is reasonabley cautious but I have touched it while it feed. I found the kitten in a draw, it was viciously attacked, I mean the ****ing ears where ripped off and I couldn't even find the head. I can still hear it screeching and claweing against the wood of the dresser It was like Silence of the Lambs I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? You didn't go and check when you first heard the screams? I've learned to check on the chickens when they start making a fuss at night, because there's always a good reason. Once it was a skunk that had just arrived at the chicken coop, and once an owl had found a stray hen and just killed it probably like no more than a minute before I got there(corpse was still warm, owl sitting on top, hadn't even started to eat it). Never seen an owl that big(well it wasn't like huge, but for me, I'm used to those tiny owls that aren't like more than a foot tall). |
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On Jun 4, 8:31 pm, wrote:
I was awakened at about 4am, I heard screams from the garage from one or more of the 3 kittens staying there with there semi feral mom. I couldn't see in the garage from my bedroom but I could hear the sound of onr or more of them trying to climb into a drawer of a woodfen bainet I have in their. It was pouring rain and I was a bit groggy so I don't know exzactly what I heard. Maybe another animal had come into the garage and chased one of the kittens. Was it another cat, a rooster from the illegals living in the house behind mine, was it the Mother cat. Today I went into then garage looking for one of the 3 kittens, it was the kitten who was most fearful of humans, that being me when I brought them food it would run and hide in the garge and not come out until it was midnight. The other 2 kittens, one a runt is fearless and a white one who is reasonabley cautious but I have touched it while it feed. I found the kitten in a draw, it was viciously attacked, I mean the ****ing ears where ripped off and I couldn't even find the head. I can still hear it screeching and claweing against the wood of the dresser It was like Silence of the Lambs I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? You know, my knee-jerk reaction to this -- and correct me if I have interpreted this wrongly -- is why didn't you immediately check out what was wrong? Did you wait until *morning* to check on them, after you "heard" what sounded like the kittens scrambling around in there? A tomcat probably got into the garage and killed the kitten. That is *not* unusual I'm wondering whether the poor thing could have been saved from the suffering. Sherry |
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on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:55:09 GMT, Sherry wrote:
A tomcat probably got into the garage and killed the kitten. That is *not* unusual I'm wondering whether the poor thing could have been saved from the suffering. Yep, my thought too since the mama was caring for the kitten properly and it was thriving. To the OP: please close the garage at night. How do you expect a mama cat to defend her kittens, all of the--er now both--all by herself? I can't imagine horrific it must have been not only for the poor kitten, but for the mama to have to witness what happened. And please dispose of the kitten's remains. Of course they aren't going near them. Why would they?? -- Lynne |
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YES, CLOSE the garage so another animal cannot get in.
Gail "Lynne" wrote in message 7.142... on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:55:09 GMT, Sherry wrote: A tomcat probably got into the garage and killed the kitten. That is *not* unusual I'm wondering whether the poor thing could have been saved from the suffering. Yep, my thought too since the mama was caring for the kitten properly and it was thriving. To the OP: please close the garage at night. How do you expect a mama cat to defend her kittens, all of the--er now both--all by herself? I can't imagine horrific it must have been not only for the poor kitten, but for the mama to have to witness what happened. And please dispose of the kitten's remains. Of course they aren't going near them. Why would they?? -- Lynne |
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On Jun 4, 9:55 pm, Sherry wrote:
On Jun 4, 8:31 pm, wrote: I was awakened at about 4am, I heard screams from the garage from one or more of the 3 kittens staying there with there semi feral mom. I couldn't see in the garage from my bedroom but I could hear the sound of onr or more of them trying to climb into a drawer of a woodfen bainet I have in their. It was pouring rain and I was a bit groggy so I don't know exzactly what I heard. Maybe another animal had come into the garage and chased one of the kittens. Was it another cat, a rooster from the illegals living in the house behind mine, was it the Mother cat. Today I went into then garage looking for one of the 3 kittens, it was the kitten who was most fearful of humans, that being me when I brought them food it would run and hide in the garge and not come out until it was midnight. The other 2 kittens, one a runt is fearless and a white one who is reasonabley cautious but I have touched it while it feed. I found the kitten in a draw, it was viciously attacked, I mean the ****ing ears where ripped off and I couldn't even find the head. I can still hear it screeching and claweing against the wood of the dresser It was like Silence of the Lambs I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? You know, my knee-jerk reaction to this -- and correct me if I have interpreted this wrongly -- is why didn't you immediately check out what was wrong? Did you wait until *morning* to check on them, after you "heard" what sounded like the kittens scrambling around in there? A tomcat probably got into the garage and killed the kitten. That is *not* unusual I'm wondering whether the poor thing could have been saved from the suffering. Sherry- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The incident was over very quick and I thought they were just playing, all 4 of them. I was asleep when it started and figured it was something to do with the pouring rain which they have never seen before, not like this. Thats why I didn't go out. I'm feeling guilty because of it. Around here its just cats and dogs and ther are no dogs around. I live in heavily populated NY suburb. There are no big animals. The only possible animal would have been the rooster that the house of 20 illegals smuggled in, how they even have rooster/hems is ridiculous but would a farm bird dur this. This cat was impossibel to catch, she/ he ran behind a pile of furniure and junk. I had trouble geting within 50'. Thats why I think is was Mom. The mother has no front teeth but 2 she does have big big back fangs. The Mother is the only thing that could have gotten close. |
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On Jun 4, 10:11 pm, "Gail" wrote:
YES, CLOSE the garage so another animal cannot get in. Gail"Lynne" wrote in message 7.142... on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:55:09 GMT, Sherry wrote: A tomcat probably got into the garage and killed the kitten. That is *not* unusual I'm wondering whether the poor thing could have been saved from the suffering. Yep, my thought too since the mama was caring for the kitten properly and it was thriving. To the OP: please close the garage at night. How do you expect a mama cat to defend her kittens, all of the--er now both--all by herself? I can't imagine horrific it must have been not only for the poor kitten, but for the mama to have to witness what happened. And please dispose of the kitten's remains. Of course they aren't going near them. Why would they?? -- Lynne- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Listen you pathetic fool, its been 90 degrees for 3 days and humid. I should lock the 4 cats in the garage with fertilizer, gas cans, dust cat crap, FLYS and other BUGS, and all the other crap that exists in garage and the heat overnight in a garage???????? Plus their feral and kittens, that means they have very weak defenses. I've saw 2 ferals die last year from respiratory problems I've cared for 100 cats and dogs but especially cats. When I wrote the inital question I suspected the answer was the Mom i justed didn't want to believe it because I've grown found of her. I know what mother cats do sometime, they regularly abandon kittens They also kill their own. This was an ugly case of mother nature |
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wrote in message oups.com... I was awakened at about 4am, I heard screams from the garage from one or more of the 3 kittens staying there with there semi feral mom. I couldn't see in the garage from my bedroom but I could hear the sound of onr or more of them trying to climb into a drawer of a woodfen bainet I have in their. It was pouring rain and I was a bit groggy so I don't know exzactly what I heard. Maybe another animal had come into the garage and chased one of the kittens. Was it another cat, a rooster from the illegals living in the house behind mine, was it the Mother cat. Today I went into then garage looking for one of the 3 kittens, it was the kitten who was most fearful of humans, that being me when I brought them food it would run and hide in the garge and not come out until it was midnight. The other 2 kittens, one a runt is fearless and a white one who is reasonabley cautious but I have touched it while it feed. I found the kitten in a draw, it was viciously attacked, I mean the ****ing ears where ripped off and I couldn't even find the head. I can still hear it screeching and claweing against the wood of the dresser It was like Silence of the Lambs I fear it was the Mother? Could this be? Might she kill another of her kittens if indeed she killed this one? ** How horrible. I would try to catch the kittens, ASAP, if you can. So if their is* a predator cat or Mom-( I shudder to think) lurking around out there, you can protect the remaining kittens. FWIW, it's really not that hard to actually catch them, just put some food in a nice, med sized boxy animal carrier with a door, and either lure them in with food, then snap the door shut, or let them eat deep inside of it a few times, then quickly shut the door on them. After trapping you'd need to then put them in a room, in a controlled environment + immediately try to socialize them with various people, sounds, and your voice, and all other creatures, in time. I would also physically touch them a lot if you can contain them in like a med sized dog 'crate' cage. Then when they are about 10 wks or 12, hopefully, you can find good approved homes for them. I have rescued cats quite often through out the years that have been neglected, abandoned and/or lost, and have spent by own money to have them checked out, neutered/ fixed, bought medicines, etc, etc. I encourage you to do the same. Try to rescue the kittens, and try to give them a better life. It's the right thing to do, IMO. ML |
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