On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:30:19 -0700 (PDT), RS at work
wrote:



Karl Townsend wrote:
The PKT (professional kitten tamer), Julie, has just had a
breakthrough in the kitten taming profession.

The hard part has always been catching the kittens right about weaning
from the mom cat time. They know how to scurry away underneath all the
stuff in the barn. She just got a live trap and started using canned
tuna bait. First get them coming to the tuna then put the trap out.

Julie caught two hissing razor blades yesterday and already is petting
one of the kitties the morning. This will be kitties twelve and
thirteen this year. And she already has a good future owner waiting
for them.

Karl


Perhaps the approach should be to put the momma cat in a cage that the
kittens can enter but momma can't exit. That way she could snag them
at a younger age to acclimate them to human contact.

Roger Shoaf

Its the wild momma cats that give the PKT trouble. The tame mommas get
extra nice food (fresh yellow tail snapper - sushi) in exchange for
letting the PKT near the young litter.

The two kittens she just caught are offspring of "Wild Thing". We
never see these kittens till they are completely weaned. This darn cat
averaged eight kittens a year.

Karl