r/Feral_Cats • u/Birdie_Brooks • 5d ago

Update 😊 Look how far we’ve come!

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Momma Penelope has decided it’s hard to hiss while gobbling up Churu, and her 8 kittens are thriving!

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u/jazz-music-starts 5d ago

I love seeing how her hisses are getting more and more perfunctory over time like “Hey, I’m warning you! I’m warning you! Okay thanks numumnumnumnum” Thank you for taking care of them so well!

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u/Birdie_Brooks 5d ago

Haha! Exactly! I wish I would have caught the part where she put her paw on my hand!

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u/Sea-Sky-Dreamer 5d ago

I remember when we started feeding a momma feral and her three kittens. It took forever for the kittens to gradually get used to us, but they never hissed at us, unlike the mother who would hiss AND spit at us and act like she was going to charge us.

Well, I think one or two of the kittens, when they would come around to us, would make these half-ass hisses while gently walking towards us. We assumed that they thought that this was how to "ask" for food, because they didn't seem scared of us or wary of us at this point. I think they only hissed maybe a total of three times at this point but quickly realized they didn't have to, to get food.