So for me, what I do, comes with choosing to live with them- except bringing them into my environment which they are not used to. The outside enclosue helps a great deal. They have the option of living there, or running into the tunnels and coming in the house.

A visitor to my home awhile back commented that the interior of my enclosure is ugly. At first, it hurt my feelers, but in looking at it, I have to agree. We dragged logs and limbs inside, set them up for ramps and posts, we used lumber from the side of our barn to set up observation posts. There is no decorating flair out there. No rock walls, ponds or waterfalls. No carpet, no soft beds. It is rugged and wild and the cats thrive out there.

So I think it is just that God has given me gift of understanding these strays and ferals. I am able to read their moods most of the time, not always-and I have failed them over the years. Missing when they are sick or injured, misreading their actions into something I understand and thus forgetting that cats react from instinct and so the lessons continue daily.

Right now, I am at capacity. I need to get my numbers down, but the last two adoptions I did- well the people snowed me good and the cats, now back with me had been placed in danger. For that reason, I am not anxious to adopt right at the moment.

I will begin sharing here in this blog some of my methods developed over the years. All I want in the end, is for more cats to come in from the cold- and more people to have the tools to understand why they behave so differently when they do find themselves inside for the first time in their lives.

My other website Kitten-rescue accomplishes the same thing. A process developed over time to bring orphaned kittens to health and socialization, learned over many years of making mistakes and just keeping everything in perspective and plodding forward.