Beautiful little black kitty needs loving, patient home. Please read :)
Here's Ella: http://www.petrotele.com/ella.html
Backstory: I started feeding a feral female near my work last winter; sometime in May she had three kittens before I could catch her, so when she started to bring her babies to the area where I fed her, I hatched a plan to catch them all.
I caught all four of them in mid-August (kittens = two boys, one girl). All spayed/neutered as appropriate, all vaccinated, and all tested FeLV negative.
The two boys mellowed out almost immediately and a woman associated with Alley Cat Allies is continuing to socialize them and work to find them homes.
Feral mama (whom I call Lily) I have released and she stops by our office regularly for food. She's fine.
The woman working with the male kittens said she couldn't also handle the little black female kitty whom I call "Ella" (started calling her "little black kitty" then "LBK" then "L" then "Elle" then "Ella"
. So I have her at our offices, where she cannot stay forever. I also can't bring her home because we have 5 cats, are only supposed to have 3 where we live, and my mom is really beginning to fail and I need to spend some serious time with her, and she lives out of state so I will likely be gone more.
Anyway. Ella is a very sweet, precious, beautiful kitten, maybe 5-6 months old. She's going to be small - her mama Lily is a very small female, maybe 7-8 lbs and I doubt Ella will be much bigger.
And while she isn't fully feral, she had 4+ months to run free before she was handled by a human - she's very gentle, and likes to play, but she's very unsure of herself, very very shy, and prefers to curl up in dark corners where she feels safe. She's hissed at me maybe twice, but has never tried to scratch or bite me. She's nibbled a little on my hand after I handled some tuna, but that was tuna-lust, not any sort of anger. I can pick her up and carry her around, but loud noises scare the crap out of her, and so does fast movement.
Anyone interested in her would need to be very patient and willing to socialize her and wait for her to come around. I have no doubt she will - she prefers to sit in my lap when I'm at work - but it may take her a while to feel safe and not hide.
I'm in northern Virginia. For the right family, I'll do whatever I can to make sure she gets to you. I'm also being very very very cautious because Halloween is coming up (black cats and all that) and I will not give Ella to just anyone.
Please let me know if you'd like to give her a forever home. She needs someone understanding, and she can't become a feral cat; I will not release her, but she stands the best chance of becoming a loving pet and being adopted while she's still young.
Thanks for reading.
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She reminds me so much of my little demon kitty Raven whom I wouldn't trade for anything. 
she's a sweetie. Seemed to realize tonight she was a kitten and played a lot - much more than I've ever seen.
I'm very protective; she won't go anywhere with anyone who doesn't think she's beyond the price of rubies...
you have done a great job with her and I am glad to hear that her mother and brothers are also doing well.
Job Well Done 
evening for lunch and dinner
I have a winter shelter for her, but I don't think she's used it (yet).
The two boys I think will be easily adopted ... I'm concerned about the right match for Ella.
Thanks for your support 
My beloved Rhiannon was black, so I have a soft spot in my heart for the little black ones. I also rescued a black cat from outdoors several years ago, but it turned out she wasn't feral, was a spayed female that got left behind when a neighbor moved and it took me four months of feeding her in my yard and a have-a-heart trap I borrowed from the animal hospital to finally bring her inside. I also tried Feliway when I brought her into the house, but the thing that helped the most was necessary dental surgery. She must have been in pain, poor thing, though the trauma of the surgery was a setback. My friend who has caught cats for the SPCA had to come into my house to catch her for me to get her into a carrier to take her to the vet's... 
Anyway, I wish I could take her, but I'm in New York... Kudos to you for doing such a wonderful job with her. Please let is know how she is. 
If you really would love her like she deserves to be loved (as I'm sure you would, after reading about Rhiannon) I'd deliver. Honestly. We have good friends in NYC we haven't seen in a while - are you near the city or upstate?
We live in a pretty rural area and while there are some here who cherish animals, there are many who just don't get it -- "a cat's a cat's a cat ... who cares if it disappears or gets hit by a car - it's just a cat" -- so I have to be very particular about who takes her in.
Anyway - just a thought and an offer
She's a petite little thing. With a long tail that gets fluffed in the middle when she's startled. Lol. She doesn't quite have the full-tail-fluff thing worked out yet.
I just love a happy ending where I know and trust all the characters 
for her by then, I'll ask Dakota's Dream to do that.
Hoping to have a foster situation set up for her soon. At the moment she's curled up in between my arms on my desk as I type this, purring, and occasionally chewing on my cardigan buttons - going to be hard for me to hand her over, though she needs more attention than I can give her. She LOVES to be held. Her little head is on my wrist and she's fallen asleep. Kittens are wonderful. I'm sitting here waiting to hear about my mom's surgery, and I think Ella's keeping me from freaking out. It's hard to freak out with a purring kitten on your arm.
Hoping the nice foster lady falls in love with her.
