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Thank you everyone for your kind words. :( I truly don't understand how people like this can exist. And Pipa, my condolences for your Sasha. RIP :( I am really having a hard time coping with this. Not even the shelter had any idea the man was planning on having Scooter put to sleep, the vet...

RIP Joe.   I'm so sorry for your loss.

I just wanted to share what happened to my beloved foster kitten Scooter. I loved this boy dearly. And I thought that, when he was adopted by a home that seemed perfectly fine, that when they had signed the contract that said he'd be returned to the shelter if anything came up, he was going to...

Thanks for the responses. She never initiates contact with me, she will hang around her siblings and her mother, but only comes to me if I'm feeding them. She doesn't mind walking around me while she's doing her own thing though. But even then I still can't pet her. I usually try petting her...

Hi everyone... The kittens in the cat family I'm fostering are 13 weeks old now. Still no takers, but only one has a personality I'm genuinely worried about when it comes to trying to place her. She refuses to be touched. Even if she is sleeping or eating and I try to pet her, she will run...

Thanks for the reply. :) I've tried putting wet food on their mouths and on them, they just act disgusted and leave it there until mama cleans them. I'm pretty sure they're not eating dry food, and they're definitely not eating wet food. Neither seem to acknowledge dry food as being food, they...

I am fostering a cat family of 6 kittens. The kittens will be 9 weeks old day after tomorrow and two of them still aren't eating any solid food - they're still just nursing. Is this normal? What can I do to help? Or should I just give it more time? I've tried just about everything - KMR in a...

Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely try them. I'm not sure what it is that makes her so overprotective of her kittens with me. She's perfectly sweet to me when I'm leaving the kittens alone, and I can't imagine I smell that much differently than my husband. She has her own bedroom so...

Hi everyone, I took in a pregnant foster, she had 6 babies here and they are 11 days old today. I'd like to get them used to handling and human presence (the kittens are still all hissing at me every time I approach the nest, lol), but Momma will not let me. The first time I looked at them too...

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately we don't keep olive oil in the house. Hopefully the vet will see her tomorrow. I can tell she's not feeling well. If not I'll pick up some olive oil tomorrow. I guess in the mean time I should just put warm water on them, if she lets me. I'm a little...

We took in a mother cat and her babies when the babies were 11 days old. The babies are now a little over 5 weeks. We've had no problems until yesterday, when I noticed momma cat's teats were getting really hard. Today they are hard as rocks, and are so hard that they're practically hanging...

Although I can't recommend any websites, I can address some of your other points. Cats generally do like cat trees, but not all cats are into cat trees. Some will ignore them completely, some will ignore certain features on them completely. Sometimes it will end up being a hideous waste of...

I was just wondering the same thing myself today. We're having a really bad heat wave here, and while my cats are used to colder temperatures, my long haired foster mother cat seems to be struggling with the heat, even panting once in a while. And there's nowhere else in the house to move them...

I'm really surprised at how well it worked out too. And at the last minute. We were just lucky, or my desperate prayers worked! It is such a huge relief, but I am still very glad we wen't through all of that. I was just so glad we could give those little babies and their moms a future. And put...

He didn't live in the countryside, and did in fact have an address, he was just being... who he is with that. He did offer a glimmer of.. something.. in that he sent us with cat food and cat litter. The person who got rid of the cat we're currently fostering gave us absolutely nothing. Anyway...

Norway is very divided between people who really love animals, and far too many people with a really barbaric, antiquated mentality who think cats are for killing or dumping if they become an inconvenience. I think the biggest problem is that most people don't realize the situation fully and let...

Shelters are almost always a problem everywhere. In the US, the good ones are few and far between. My mom lived next to a good one - and then she moved to Oklahoma, which is why she has 12 cats and 4 dogs permanently. Here in Norway, I think the shelters are one of the worst things about this...

Thanks again for your kind words and positive vibes! I will really never understand people like this guy. I really hope he never gets another cat again. Sadly, they almost always do. Unfortunately the shelter we were dealing with misled us, they seemed really willing to help according to the...