How To Socialize Hissy Feral Kittens. Keep dry kitten food out all day but when you feed wet food stay in the room so they associate you with food and start to trust you. Make sure if you re trapping kittens you re also trapping the mom and any other cats in the colony so that they can go.
Kittens love food who doesn t and giving the little ones food creates an incentive for them to interact with you and also forms positive associations. You ve rescued the kittens. Feeding time is a great way to move the cat along in the socialization process.
Kittens that do not have any contact with humans after they are born will be feral regardless of whether their mother is a lost house cat or a feral cat living in a colony.
If a kitten seems feral use a humane trap to catch them don t try to pick. Even better buy some potting soil to put a layer of clean parasite free soil over the top of the litter. Keep dry kitten food out all day but when you feed wet food stay in the room so they associate you with food and start to trust you. Be careful not to.
