Mommy?
Yes Dezi.
Why are there so many kitties on the streets named Feral? You member when our town was all in a huff cuz of da kitties in da neighborhood.
Yes Dezi, I remember. Well honey there’s no easy answer to that question. See, somewhere down the line, for a lot of those kitties, they once had a home.
Wiff a mommy like you, mommy?
Maybe dear. But more likely not cause their mommy or daddy was able to give them up; and I could never let go of you and your sister.
We don’t want you to give us up mommy.
I know Dezi and I’m not going to, so don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Anyways, for whatever reason, maybe they got tired of their kitty, or it got sick or old, or started acting out, or they had a new baby, or got a new kitty; anyways, for whatever reason they decided they didn’t want the kitty they had and so they threw it out of their house. Of course it probably kept coming back around so they may have yelled at it or threw things at it so it would get scared and go away. And a lot of times these kind of people don’t spay or neuter their kitties so they suddenly find themselves without a home or food or water or warmth and have to learn to survive all by themselves.
Oh me mommy, me couldn’t survive wiffout you and sissy. Me can barely member havin’ to fight wiff meez littermates to get a meal afur you saved me. But me sure likes not havin’ to fight wiff any kitty anymore to eat.
I know Dezi and you’ll never have to fight for your food ever again.
What happens to those kitties that get thrown out mommy? Do they find sumfin’ to eat?
Well sweety sum of them don’t and they die or get killed by cars, poison placed out by people, other animals and so on. And some of them find other kitties and form a colony. And for the most part they work together to find food and shelter and raise any kittens born into the colony. And they start learning to fear humans. Because all those kitties that weren’t spayed or neutered start having babies the colony grows and grows. And they teach those babies to be afraid of humans too and how to survive on the streets. And eventually there’s no trace of the kitty that once had a home, and all the new kitties born into that colony never knew a home. They’ve only ever known the streets. And so we call them “Feral” which means: a domesticated cat that has returned to the wild or the kittens of such a cat. They are different from a stray and most of them will never know what a home with a loving family is like.
Oh mommy dat be so sad. How do they survive? What can we do to help them and stop peeps fwum fwoin’ their kitties away? And what’s da diffewence mommy?
Well my dear those are questions for another day okay?. Let’s go get you and sissy some treats and we’ll talk more about this later.
Treats? Okay mommy, fanks. Purrlease join us fur our Adopt a Shelter Cat mumff series.
And till da next time…………………………Be Blest!!!
Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses
Dezi and Lexi
Service Cats U.S. 
Excellent post. I am glad you both have such a wonderful forever home. I wish all kitties were as lucky as the blogging ones. All mine are from shelters or just showed up- and 2 from people who had babies.
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Fanks Ms. Ellen. We wish all kitties kuld have pawsum homes too. And till dat happens weez’ll purray and twy to educate as much as we can.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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Long befur we were in this den…meowmy and pawppy had kitties that were not feral because they came to them, looking for something to eat, and one of them brought all her wee ones and put them under the porch steps…meowmy made then a better shelter…
Another time another litter of kittens came to eat in our yard, but they and the momma kitty were quite wild by then.
We have lots of foxes, coons,and other varmints here, as well as various hawks…so, well…those poor little kittens did not visit with us fur long. Back then we didn’t know they could have been trapped by our local TNR group.
It is a sad and tenuous life these ferals live. Now we hardly see feral/stray kitties anymore, likely because now our yard is totally fenced in, and there are busy neighbors in both sides of our den…with dogs. (They prolly scare any kitty away, though they are sweet pups…MJF too, would surely scare off any feline visitors.)
What we did see, was a beautiful kitty lying dead on the roadside one morning, a family down the road from us lets their cats roam…sheesh:((
Almost as sad as a feral lifestyle.
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Dat is very sad. We too have all kinds of wildlife and offen kitties dat get dumped here don’t last long. But we hope to educate more and more peeps to da TNR way of life so da kitties do stand a chance of havin’ sum sort of life.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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Thanks for talking about the feral kitties. All the kitties here were once feral cats simply because they were born in the wild. They make wonderful pets as soon as they begin to trust the humans and they do eventually trust them. I have a feral Momma who has 5 kids here and it took 5 years but the feral Mom follows our human Mom around all over the place but no touching is allowed. They are truly wonderful cats
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Yes they awe. Weez so glad yous all got such a pawsum mommy.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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Very good post Dezi. ….disgusting peeps…we should throw them onto the street and say, “Fend for yourself…you…you puke!”
All of us
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Yep we sure shuld. And we hope sumday it happens to ’em. Mommy sez we shuldn’t feel dat way, but we do.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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All us came here looking for food and love and Mumsy and CatDaddy Senior, and later CatDaddy Junior let us stay. As there’s seven of us now, we do what we can to help all our Feral Friends, including putting out food and water.
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Dat’s pawsum. Weez so glad y’all found such a wunnewful home. And fank you fur carin’ fur da udder ferals.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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awesum post dezi & lexi…..veree vereee sad; becoz itz troo…thanx for bringin two a tenshun, de life R feral pals hafta leed 😦 ♥♥♥
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Fank you.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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I was lucky to found myself a home. Hope there are a lot ferals who can find themselves a loving and caring family too…and if not, we hope good people find them ❤ Extra Pawkisses for the both of you and your mommy to bring up a conversation like that 🙂 ❤
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Fanks Binky. Weez so glad yous found yous pawsum home too. have a pawsum day.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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I was a feral kitten who was lucky enough to be brought to a shelter and even MORE lucky that the day after I got there, two humans came in and adopted me and took me home! I was one of the lucky ones…..sadly so many more are NOT lucky. We wish them God-speed and forever homes…….
Hugs, Sammy
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Weez so glad yous got wescued Sammy. And weez so glad weez met and became furiends. We awe among da blest.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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You are so right, Dezi. We have to have more TNR peoples if nothing else.
Mommy is mean, and hasn’t opened my box yet. Sheesh. Suspense is not fun!
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Aaaaaaw Quinn, weez sowry yous mommy hasn’t opened yous package yet, hope she lets you have it soon. Have a pawsum day.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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Y’all are just so sweet and we do try to help out all those loving ones named Feral.
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Fank you and we know da ferals fank you.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
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