Recent Content by hroswitha

I actually have 8 cats in the house, and several feral cats out back.  I had 5 cats for about a decade, then the fostering we've done has resulted in some of the temporary young cats being permanent residents.  Zadok and Serendipity, the year old kittens, were rescued from my ravine after we...

I have 2 nearly adult kittens in my household.  Both have been ravenous eaters all their young lives.  They typically eat 2.5 meals a day - two of canned food, a half meal of kibble.   The boy, Zadok, stopped eating his usual amounts two days ago.  I have seen him eat some (around midnight last...

We did call the clinic, and no other reported symptoms.  She's been getting fluids, and I'm going to try feeding her some slurry in a syringe.  She didn't keep down the last stuff, but I'm hoping she will this.  I won't give her a lot, just enough to make sure she's getting some fluids and...

I tried kitten crack with her (chicken and water baby food), but she was having none of it.  Nor would she take food with parmesan, dosed with chicken broth, or canned tuna.  I tried all my usual tricks to get a little one to eat.   Since the last post, we successfully gave her appx. 15 cc of...

Serendipity and Zadok went to the vet late morning.  Serendipity, the girl, was severely dehydrated and weak.  She and her brother both received an antibiotic injection and a shot of vitamin B.  Dipity also received 25cc lactated ringers.   Since she came home, we gave her about another 15cc of...

Oh, Castor is a character.  He still thinks he's a tiny baby kitty, and wants to play with the kittens as if he were.  He can be a little too rough with them, but he never wants to harm them.  He crawls into the carrier where the kittens lived for their first three weeks, tries to climb into the...

I am fostering 3 kittens, and have bottle fed them since they were a day old.  they are 10 weeks now, and went in for surgery and a booster vaccine.  When I took them to the local humane alliance, they weighed nearly 3 lbs.  Since they came home on Thursday, I haven't been able to get one of the...

I'm still new to this, but I'll add my story. Midwinter of 2012, my husband and I noticed a big orange and white kitty hanging out by the back of the garage.  He'd position himself in the light from our neighbor's house so we could see him.  He would just squat there, thinking "Tuna?" no doubt...