Poorly socialised kittens experience ongoing stress due to their fear of people and it is therefore best for the welfare of feral kittens found at 8 weeks old or over to be trapped, neutered and returned to their original territory as it is the environment they are familiar with and were born into.

Cats Protection’s Honiton Branch are celebrating the successful homing of the final group of kittens from the feral colony. Ebony, Jet and Midnight were socialised and found new homes. It was a busy year for the branch as they rehomed more than 40 cats and neutered 163 cats by October. But it has been the most recent humane trapping of a pregnant female cat at a farm outside Monkton that has been cause for most celebration. Feral kittens must be under eight weeks old to be successfully introduced to a home environment and socialised with people. Poorly socialised kittens experience ongoing stress due to their fear of people and it is therefore best for the welfare of feral kittens found at 8 weeks old or over to be trapped, neutered and returned to their original territory as it is the environment they are familiar with and were born into. The kittens went on to enjoy life in a home while their mother was neutered, returned to the farm where she was happiest.

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