Extremely feral 5 week old kitten found in rescuer’s backyard goes through heartwarming transformation from super spicy kitten to cuddly purring kitty, pawrent says: ‘She’s a little sweetie and I am so proud of all she has overcome in so little time.’

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Laurent Shinar • Writer and Editor
Mar 27, 2026 9:00 AM EDT

If you thought that all kittens are born sweet and cuddly, then get ready to meet with reality as you dive into this story of the super spicy kitten who learned to love without violence.

It is not the most common of occurrences, but depending upon what a kitten's life has looked like they can be some of the spiciest felines on the planet. Full of boundless energy with tiny claws and teeth that easily pierce the skin they can wreak havoc on a hooman with quite the unexpected amount of force. Which can present quite the unprecedented challenge for a family trying to integrate such a kitten into their lives. Which is what happened to the cat loving family who rescued this piquant cat child from their backyard.

Luckily, with a lot of love and gloves they were able to calm the kitty down and turn her into the cutest and cuddliest catto they had ever met. And they all lived happily ever after. An ending which is far more favorable than what many pawrents have to put up with for the rest of their catto's life. 
 

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    "We're her people, and she's happy to be with us"
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    I found a kitten out at my house, about 5 weeks old would be my guess in her age. Extremely feral (she bit the dickens out of my finger when I caught her,
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    and I have a scratch from her claws as well-she's quite the spicy little thing) She's currently in a travel crate with
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    food and water with a towel over the top and sides so she feels a little more hidden and safe. She hisses at every opportunity lol
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    Any advice on how to care for a feral rescue while I try to find a home for her? I don't want to just leave her loose because I live in the country and we have
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  • Erm, yeah, wear long clothing, always wear thick leather gloves when handling and consider starting a cat fight club because by the sounds of it you have a winner right there. All jokes aside, you have to wonder how in the heck it happened that this kitten ended up being so darn spicy. After all, she has only been alive for a short while and in that time she has had to learn how to walk, talk and navigate the world. Which she has done, but she has also found time to learn the feline version of martial arts and is a full on machine by the sounds of it. 

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    coyotes and owls and hawks (and country dogs that people let roam) and I don't want anything to happen to her. Her mama is nowhere in sight.
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    She has fleas so at some point I will have to bathe the poor thing, but for now I'm letting her stay in the crate.
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    Does anyone have any advice? Also, with regards to the bite and scratch on my fingers, I washed it in antibacterial hand soap within minutes after being
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    bit, but she did break skin and draw b. Should I still go to the doctor to get ant cs do you think?
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    She was VERY spicy at first, but I have been patiently and gently handling her (initially with gloves on, then getting her used to my bare hand, etc) for a couple weeks.
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    I am so excited to say she is now completely comfortable around people. She will come up to me, my husband, my
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  • Well, that is quite the turn around. We are actually rather shocked to hear that this has managed to happen so smoothly. Usually cats of this kind do not grow out of their clawminal tendencies and instead have them become engrained in their pawsonality. But luckily for the family who rescued her she has sweetened up and will no longer be causing this kind of chaos. What a wonderful turn of events for this budding fur family. Now they just need to train her out of the classic song that cats like to sing at 3 am when they get the midnight munchies. 

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    brothers-in-law, she will let all of us pick her up and hold her, and she will come greet me when I come home and rub her face against my
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    foot while her little "motor" is purring away She's a little sweetie and I am so proud of all she has overcome in so little time. She
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    was so afraid at first. That fear is completely gone now. We're her people, and she's happy to be with us
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    She is in process of warming up to our resident cat. They've been hissing at each other on opposite sides of my screen door (resident cat is
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    an indoor cat), but yesterday they just sniffed each other hisslessly. So more progress!
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    pum... Congratulation s on taming the tiger, then being adopted by it. Enjoy!!!!
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