Chiming in here with nine cats of my own (2 adopted, 7 captured). Young cats are pretty easy to tame; I captured a couple of 2-3 month year old cats and socialized one in a week, and another in 36 hours. I got lucky as both cats would hiss but weren't violent when cornered; the vets even thought they were naturally tame. On the other hand, Josh, a fully grown cat, bit me hard enough to give me an infection in my finger and clawed me pretty badly. He also tended to ignore the litter box and use the carpet and my bed as a litter box. Oh, and the vet I took him too didn't give him the deworming medication I instructed him to use, so the cat's stool was 50% blood for the first few weeks until I scored some medication through a feral cat group. Now, he uses the litter box and he's a bit shy, but he's completely relaxed and pretty friendly. I captured the parents of the two young cats, and while feral, they weren't violent like Josh, and do use the litterbox, but in roughly the same time period that I've had him I've made little progress. They'll let me pet them when eating, and they'll sometime let me get close, but most of the time they'll run away from me. The other cats I've captured were apparently abandoned as they were tame and friendly, but weren't micro-chipped or had a collar (nor were they fixed). I posted pics last year about that one cat who's tail had to be amputated.
So consider capturing the mother if only to spay her and release her, but it's worth considering trying to tame her too, but you have to be willing to accept the possibility of failure (or at least middling success).
So consider capturing the mother if only to spay her and release her, but it's worth considering trying to tame her too, but you have to be willing to accept the possibility of failure (or at least middling success).
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