Hello all, I was recently tipped off about “2 kittens and their mother” in my local area. I’ve fostered strays and feral kittens before so I thought I’d do what I could. 

My brother and I started by providing wet kitten food and water. 

For context I’m writing from North Wales, but I’m looking to avoid giving any further location details to try and avoid baddies finding my little guys. 

My initial plan was to see about building a routine and trapping and neutering, with a view to maybe socialising and homing them. If they were too wild then we’d look to return them once recovered from the neutering. 


I tend to find that if I’m going to get interested in something, then I might as well get obsessed about it, so I bought a trail camera. 

It was then I discovered that there were 3 kittens and 5 adults! So far. 

I have a friend who rescues and rehomes cats who has been advising me, but she’s been deluged with kitten season. She’s going to help me when the time comes for trapping. Which leads me to the neutering part. 

I’ve sought help from Cats Protection, the RSPCA and some local cat/animal charities and rescues but have either been told that there’s no funding for neutering in my area or just not responded to. Everyone is struggling at the moment so I get that. 

I’m considering starting a GoFundMe to get some funds in place before we attempt the trapping part, but both of those things are new to me as well. 

Currently I’m refreshing the water and putting out wet and dry kitten food around the same time each day, then reviewing my footage. (It’s interesting working out the hierarchy in the colony and learning the personalities)

Basically…what the hell else should I be doing? As I’m discovering new cats in the colony I’m feeling more and more out of my depth. 

Pointers on daily care, trapping and fundraising for the neutering are gladly accepted. 

Thanks for getting this far. This is my first ever post here and attempt and supporting ferals, so please be gentle if I need correcting!

Trying to help feral kittens. Turns out it’s a colony. Please advise me!