I found these little ones (there are three of them) and their mother living under a woodshed next to my grandma's summer countryhouse. They're tiny, cute, cold, and hungry. There's no one living around in winter and I don't know what to do with them.
My main concern is I'm not sure if they need any help. There are hundreds of semi-wild cats living in cities and suburbs and they can probably survive themselves. They seem to be starving as they've eaten half a pack of kittens dry food in just one moment, but that can be a predator instinct to eat all you can while it's present.
The thing I'm concerned even more is that they seem to like each other, to stand for each other, they seem a family. They're mother is very protective of them. In addition, they all are really afraid of people (which is me), which in my practice is a sign of wildness.
So, even though they were extremely happy to get some food from me, maybe but that's it. Maybe they don't need any human's home. I've heard so many stories of people ruining lives of wild animals by taking them home, I really afraid of doing it myself.
Plus, traveling and living here and there, I actually don't have any home I could take them to. We posted some Instagram stories asking if anyone around would like to give a home to a little homeless kitten, but no one has replied so far.
There's a weird expression in Russian that's been getting popular recently. It says "Prichinit' Dobro", which is actually hard to translate. "Dobro" means "a good thing", "a good deed" or just "good" in general. "Prichinit'" is a cognate word for "prichina" which means "a reason". So, it's initial meaning was "to be a reason of", but now it's closer "do" or "inflict", and it's only used for bad things. The things you can prichinit' are damage, prejudice, loss or evil.
So, "prichinit' dobro" is an oxymoron, that means to do a bad thing trying to do a good thing, to do harm out of good intentions.
And looking at these little ones, I don't feel like I can leave em like that. But I'm also really afraid to prichinit' dobro.
Great expression, Prichinit' dobro. I understand you feel torn. When feral cats are healthy they don't really need our help. RSPCA in the UK support trapping and neutering (spay or castrate) of feral cats.
