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Update: The ferals are becoming almost normal. One is still shy, so I might try pheromone spray for her.  The friendlies are still sick, so they're confined to a large cage. They're on medication and daily subcutaneous fluids.

Update: The ferals are doing quite well. They run around when we let them out of the bathroom and don't always hiss at each other. We can lean down and pet them, and even if they flinch at first, they don't hiss or run away, and soon begin purring. The friendly kittens are very ill, so we're...

Quick update: Before we could start any introductions, the ferals started hissing and growling at each other :(  I know that when cats are normally friendly with each other and start acting like this, it means that something in their environment has changed. Well, that makes sense! We let them...

I recently fostered two feral females. They were about 10 weeks old when trapped, which is older than the shelter usually accepts, but they had been exposed to humans who fed them, so they trapped them, and fostered them to us. They were still shy when they went to the shelter for adoption, but...

Thanks so much for the reply. Yes, they're all easy to handle, and oddly enough, that's when they were calmest -- when I was holding them. I didn't want to keep picking them up, though, because of the surgery. When we let them out of the bathroom, they go running around, jumping up on...

I'm currently fostering a litter of 4 kittens, 2 males and 2 females. They were spayed today and we took them back because there are so many kittens being done that they asked if the fosters could take them for a day or two. No problem! They're lovies, so why not? We normally keep them in a...

Thank you for the suggestions. Freezing the liquid or the opened powder would probably work for me. Regarding homemade, I had a vet once tell me that the home recipes were incomplete because they were lacking all the minerals (for example, potassium), but that it will be okay in an emergency...

I'm fostering for a local shelter and have a kitten that has diarrhea. It's been treated, and is being followed, and watched like a hawk :)  In the meantime, I want to give it some Pedialyte to keep on top of hydration. Instead of buying the huge containers of Pedialyte, I bought powdered...