Pets

I can't get close to her or Skittish without enduring spits and hisses unless I am offering a bowl of food.

Any of the other ferals will either wait patiently or hide until the bowls are filled. They will hiss and spit at each other to clear a path to the food, but never at me.

Scooter, the mom of the 3 kittens, lets me get close but unless she's eating she doesn't allow me to give her pets or scritches. BUT she and her kittens spend pretty much the entire day in my back yard, very close to the house.