Next steps for taming a feral kitten
A highly feral kitten that acts like a scrapper behaves completely differently than previously rescued kittens. This unfamiliar aggression prevents owners from relying on their past rescue experience, leaving them unsure of their next steps or what to look out for.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Give them time (from a few nights to a few weeks) to get used to you.Did this help you?
- 2Ignore them while continuing to provide food and water until they loosen up.Did this help you?
- 3Take things very slowly.Did this help you?
- 4Taking the kitten to a vet to determine age, gender, and appropriate food.Did this help you?
- 5Watching YouTube tutorials by rescue experts like 'the Kitten Lady'.Did this help you?
- 6Providing a temporary bed, basic food, and kitten-specific litter.Did this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“What should be my next steps. Anything I should be on the look out for”source ↗
“however this kitten is pretty feral and quite the scrapper”source ↗
“I rescued another kitten before but they were not at all like this”source ↗