if someone asked you to donate money for humane wild kitten trap for two wild kittens would you donate?

Question

their are two wild kittens that have no mother-:( (she died) and are to little to feed cat food and are lightning fast so we can't catch them. would you donate if asked?

Answer 1

Make sure the organization is legit before donating.
Anyone can walk up to you and ask to donate, and they can easily keep your money. Be careful.

Answer 2

they have to be eating something, or they wouldn't be able to be lightning fast. If kittens go for more than a day without eating, they get weak and frantically hungry. Use something like canned tuna or canned fish flavor cat food (something with a strong smell that will attract the kittens) and try to lure them into an enclosed place (like a garage or a shed) where you can shut the door once they go inside. I once caught a wild kitten by putting tuna canned cat food in the back of a VariKennel plastic pet carrier and sat very quietly nearby until the kitten went in to eat, and then shut the door. After that I put the kitten into a large cat cage, mostly darkened so the kitten felt safe, it took me about a month to tame the kitten, but he became a very sweet house cat once he got adjusted.

A wild kitten usually is very hungry, needs deworming, defleaing, and needs treated for ear mites, and vaccinations.

Its very likely that a humane organization would help you trap the cats. Another possibility would be to ask a local wildlife rehabilitator, or call the Department of Natural Resources office in your area to ask where to locate a wildlife rehabber. Rehabbers often have humane traps and other such things, as tools of their work with wildlife

Answer 3

Well, I just had to call animal control on a trapped kitten. He wanted to put out humane traps to catch him and his family before they are hit by cars or hurt by drunk college kids (they're on a college campus), and I agreed to find him a professor to sign it. Animal control will do this for free, so you don't need a donor. The one I spoke to also said he would just give me the kitten instead of taking it to the shelter if I asked, so you could go that route as well.

(He didn't catch the kitten for me, unfortunately--it found its own way out of the ceiling it had been trapped in for 2 days right after the officer arrived!)

Answer 4

Check with your local animal shelter to obtain a humane trap from them or go out and buy it yourself then bring the kittens straight to the vet for a checkup and hopefully they can be placed in caring homes

Answer 5

I would see if I could borrow a trap from a humane society, or an animal shelter, or a wildlife agency first.

Or if the person was known to be trustworthy then I would. I wouldn't give money to a stranger no matter what they said.

Answer 6

definitely call a shelter or humane society around you. you can put a deposit of money down and once you return the trap you get your money back. i would not donate money because i know you can just borrow the traps from places. i just did it a couple of months ago when i had to trap the strays in my yard to take them to get spayed and neutered.

Answer 7

Sure, if it was one of my neighbors and I knew about the problem.

However, you might be surprised what those babies will eat. Try putting out some food for them. The will get used to you putting food out for them and may end up claiming you as their human.

Trapping them may work, and then bring them inside and keep them inside. Good Luck!