If you find a stray mother cat and kittens in your neighborhood, you should contact a local animal shelter or rescue organization for assistance. They can help with trapping, spaying/neutering, and finding homes for the cats. It's important to provide food, water, and shelter for the cats in the meantime.
The friendliness of stray cats in this neighborhood varies.
speak to your local animal shelter, they should help you
You should feed stray kittens a diet of wet kitten food or kitten milk replacer to ensure they receive proper nutrition for their growth and development. It's important to provide fresh water at all times as well.
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Yes. Kittens (and everything else) have their own scent that never rubs off.
I am hoping that you are wondering because you want to adopt one to keep as a pet. If that is the case, I wouldn't go for a stray for several reasons, but disease is one of the big ones. You should probably look in your local newspaper for kittens. Most of the time they are free. But if a stray is really what you want, try the Arby's parking lot. That's usually where I see stray cats and kittens. Or sometimes they are in the parking lot of grocery stores.
Not forever. Some could come back. it all depends.
You can put out a bowl of dry kitten food and a bowl of water. Call the ASPCA. They will take the mother and kittens. If the mother and her kittens are safe and hidden from preditors (which it doesn't sound like they are) and you feed them they'll stay around. Heat and cold are another problem. Racoons, dogs and coyotes, also are a big problem in some areas and will probably get to the kittens while their mother looks for food.
Well, they can have almost anything. You should go to the veterinarian and have a checkup. They can have anything from brain tumors to a common cold. You may catch something from a stray kitten, but I am not a veterinarian myself. You should ask your veterinarian.
A stray kitten under 7 weeks of age usually still drinks it's mother's milk. If it does not have a mother that you know of you should bring it to your veterinarian and ask. They may put your kitten in with a mother that just had kittens, or suggest you feed it kitten milk from your grocery store. If they are older than 7 weeks you can try wet or dry cat food and a tiny bowl of milk or some water.
If its in another persons garden I suggest you tell them. The best way to catch cats is to lure them out with milk or cat food and trap them in a box.
Stray can be a verb, noun, and adjective.As a verb: Please don't stray too far from home.As a noun: We adopted several neighborhood strays.As an adjective: That stray dog needs a loving home.