The Feral Cat Era Begins

I looked out my living room window one day last summer and saw a momma cat with at least six kittens tumbling around my yard. I reached out to a local Facebook group that rescues cats and, within minutes, people offered to help.

A few days later, we had trapped all of them. They went to the vet, were spayed and neutered, treated for an eye infection, and the kittens were rehomed quickly.

Momma cat was a different story.
She was feral. She couldn’t be rehomed, handled, or domesticated without causing her distress. After a few weeks of care, she was released back into the neighborhood — healthy, treated, and spayed so she wouldn’t end up in the same cycle again.

We domesticate cats and dogs because we want them to fit into our homes and our lives. But some never take to it. Some remain wild. And once they’ve lived by their own instincts, it’s nearly impossible to reverse that.

I think a lot of humans have been domesticated too.

We’ve been trained to behave, think, and speak in ways that keep the world comfortable — even when it costs us our truth. We learn that anything that doesn’t align with the approved script of society, family, morality, or culture must be wrong. And if we can’t bend ourselves into an acceptable shape, we’re told we are the problem.

But what if that story isn’t true?

What if human domestication isn’t “better” than being feral — just more socially convenient?

I’m not talking about chaos or acting without awareness.
I’m talking about the right to be who you are — without being house-trained into versions of yourself that feel safe for others.

What if being feral is simply an act of rebellion against a life that asks you to shrink?

What if that rebellion isn’t a flaw, but a sign that your spirit still remembers itself?

Some of us didn’t choose the cage we woke up in. We just learned to behave well inside it.

I’ve opened two programs for the human feral cats — the ones who see the bars now and can’t go back to pretending they don’t exist.

The Feral Initiation (small group)
and
The Feral Cat Intensive (private 1:1)

This isn’t traditional coaching.
I’m not here to trauma-dump with you, fix your thinking, or soothe the pain of the cage. I’m here to show you the structure of the system you got caught in — and how to slip through the gap in the fence if you want out.

I won’t drag you anywhere. I won’t tell you to uproot your life. I’m not here to play savior or teacher. I’m simply going to show you things you won’t be able to unsee.
What you do after that is entirely up to you.

I’m fully in my feral cat era now. Trying to fit into the model of traditional coaching stripped me of the very thing I came here to live. I left that cage, and I’m not going back.

If you feel the same tug — if your fur is already bristling — follow the links above to join me.

Love to all my fellow feral cats.

Della