Northeast Gardening: NE Forum Pets!, 0 by LEIGHTONHILL

LEIGHTONHILL wrote:
This is Jim (or Jim Jim). He was found under a building we own as a baby with his semi feral mom. We couldn't figure out why we would find our place with stuff scattered about after we would leave and come back. One day,someone was working on the pipes under the building (5 foot crawl space) and he told us there was a cat with babies under the building. We captured them all and then took them to the shelter I volunteered for and they all got fixed and got their shots. My friend took the mother cat and she has come out of her shell. It took a long time but she is now a lovable house pet who never goes outside. Two of the three kittens were adopted out to people and I kept Jim. He was funny as a kitten. When we would go to get him to feed him, he would hiss and spit at us. He did that for quite a while. He now thinks of me as mom as I fed him with kitten replacement milk (first by bottle then out of a dish). He would put his whole face in the milk and his paws. He is now a much cleaner eater and a sweetie. He isn't fond of commotion or little people so he sometimes hides but he is a love.