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Got a new, young, furry love in your life? This is the place for you to ask all of your questions - big or small! Just remember that you are receiving advice from other cat owners and lovers... not professionals. If you have a major problem, always seek the advice of a vet or behaviorist! Most important is to remember to have fun with your new fur baby.

  
Stella

Stella- Felinis--Queen- of All Kitties!
 
 
Purred: Sat Oct 6, '07 9:28am PST 
It's Stella. My momcat, who lives outside, showed up last night with two new kittens! We didn't even know she had any! She had had that big litter of five in March and they were all gone by the end of May. [My person found homes for two and three disappeared.] If she only had two, I guess her figure didn't get that large so we didn't notice. She has been begging for food a lot lately, so this explains it. We'll try and catch these guys before they disappear. They appear to have the same father as me, and are mostly grey with white faces and shawls. I want to play with them so much, but my person says they might have germs so I can't. Rats!! Purrs to all of you!

[This is Stella's person. I know we should do something about this stray who has now had ten kittens in two years, but we are completely unable to catch her. The humane trap has sat for days at a time and no other food offered and she will not go in it. Plus none of the vets down here will spay a really wild feral--they don't want to get clawed and they don't want her diseases in their clinic. The local humane society euthanizes strays on arrival. We are too far away from any of the groups who help with this--a 120+ mile drive with an angry feral, even assuming we could catch her, would be a nightmare. So we feed her and feed the kittens and try to catch them and give them homes.]
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Gabby

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Purred: Sat Oct 6, '07 12:20pm PST 
The same thing happened to our momcat this year. Usually she only has one small litter. Her first litter was 2 kittens and they both died from what looked like a URI. The next year she had my big brother Dusty and our Foster Meowmy took him in. In May, Mia was born...another single kitty litter. Now just this August, we were born. We all have homes already, but Foster Meowmy is worried about what she's gonna do if she continues to have so many kittens. Foster pawrents trapped her by accident once and she was so wild she kept ramming the cage. They were afraid she'd hurt herself. How is she to be transported and fixed if she's so wild and unmanageable? If only the rescue league places could put some mild sedatives in the food for us in the trap...wonder if that'd work?
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Stella

Stella- Felinis--Queen- of All Kitties!
 
 
Purred: Sat Oct 6, '07 1:24pm PST 
It's Stella. Even a hungry feral cat won't eat food that is spiked with sedatives, at least not enough to matter. I think what they have to do is have someone give her a sedating shot through the cage to calm her down. The bad thing is that since the recovery from surgery is ten days, they can't keep her sedated the whole time. The vets around here said the kindest thing would be to catch her and put her to sleep. But we can't do that right now--she is my mom and she leads a pretty good life for a feral, lots of food and a warm cat shelter here and under various people's trailers. If we could just keep her from making so many kittens.

There is a tomcat living with her, we think he is her son, and we are going to try to get him fixed as he is a little calmer and it's easier with boys anyway. But he is not the father of these kittens, or of the litter I was born from--that is a grey and white cat who lives a few blocks away. He is someone's pet and they let him out all the time, and they won't get him fixed, because it's cruel. Hah! If there weren't any tomcats around, it wouldn't matter that we can't get Momcat fixed.

You are sure the cutest kittens in the world! These two that my momcat brought last night are much older than you. She apparently has been hiding them all this time. She knows that people will catch them and take them away from her eventually. Or the coyotes will get them. She doesn't understand that the three who are adopted are much happier! You guys are so lucky to be raised inside and have good homes ahead of you. It's impossible to find good homes for kittens around here, and these two are so wild, just like their mom. Purrs to you!
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