The kitten Boxtrolls

These two are on their last day of medicine to clear out the Coccidia they developed from the stress of abandonment, new home then a vet trip. They are each a month old and underweight for their age.

But with kitten food, Forti Flora and quiet time they are slowly acting normal. They still hiss at me but less often. They were found in a box and a box is with them in their tent. They are truly Boxtrolls. They hiss, love music and eat a lot. 

Male black and brown with stripes

Brown spotted tabby male.

Both the vet and everyone else asked if I would be keeping them. That is always hard as I love black cats and have never had one I kept. I want them to both go to the same home together as they are longhaired littermates. No, these two just stumbled into my life. I never name them and always try to rehome them. With the exception of the two we did keep, fifty have gone to new homes. So these are 51 & 52 and that is what I call them.
 

Kittens in a box

So yesterday evening after a long day of house restoration and old door donation delivery we were driving home on the back roads and I saw two kittens dart across the dirt road and run into this heavy wood box on the corner of a property. We pulled over and I stayed with the heavy wood box box and my husband went to pick up a cat carrier at our house about 3-4 miles away. I looked around for any other kittens and a mama cat, nothing. This corner is a forest and cattle pasture, no houses. The property owner came to see me as she was putting out hay for her cattle and I showed her the box with the kittens. She had just moved hay from that lot and that box was not there an hour ago. We had also been by that same part of the road and that box was not there. She did not want the kittens so I offered to take them to foster and apologized for being on her property. We got them home, flea removal, washed, fed and in a kitten tent for the night with a heating pad. They have teeth so about 3-4 weeks of age longish hair, one is black and one is a brown tabby. They are not photo ready as they are as tired as I am. I do not know who left this very heavy wood 15lb wooden cage/box but there was no food and no water just this box the kittens ran to.  I got two very tiny very thin weak kittens. Today, they will go to the vet an hour away to get evaluated and wormed. From there we have to decide on keeping or putting up for adoption. These will be the first kittens I have fostered in three years. I still had all my kitten supplies saved just in case. I shall have to call them 51 & 52 after having fostered 50 thus far.

This is the 30 inch long wood box with a heavy mesh flap that the kittens ran into when I walked up on them. I could not ret my arm down to reach them, so I brought the box and the kittens home in it.

UPDATE: this is called a rabbit trap by the old-timer trappers. I was told this box was missing some parts but I was shown how to use it. It was overkill for kittens but was probably used to catch them.

I was electric long staple gun assembled out of old barn wood. It is about 8 inches tall and 30 inches long. The wood is very old dry barn wood about 2 inches thick! The whole thing is about 15-20lbs of weight.

I have always wanted a black cat. I have fostered 4 and never kept them as they were adopted quickly. These two are a bit feral but use the litter pan. It will take some time to figure out their personality. I will post photos after they see the vet. Just too busy this time of the year on the farm.