The kittens who live in a tree
A feral mother cat, one of the feral cat colony we care for, had her babies up in a 10 1/2 foot tall tree. It had been struck by lightening years before and the tree is dead, so it has a big hollowed out spot down in the middle of it and the top has been cut off leaving short stumpy areas sticking out.
The neighbor had to climb up a ladder, shimmy up the tree the rest of the way, then hang upside down in the tree to get the babies out when they were a about three weeks old and we trapped the mama to be spayed during a big snip weekend at Alley Cats. They were able to stay with her there and come home with her afterwards where we'd set up a little house for her to keep them in. We'd also set up an alternate location near the tree--a building that we'd scattered a bunch of straw under--in case she wasn't content being so visible.
Brought Mama and her babies home, put babies in cat-house, let Mama out of crate. She went and hid, so we left the babies in the cat-house and checked on them a bit later. By midnight, she had all four of them back up in the top of that freaking tree! And there they stay, over a month later. Here are the pics to prove it. |
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