My growing boys having Halloween fun!
How small they were when I got them; was told at their first vet appointment that they were 3 weeks old, and Koopa nearly died with failure to thrive and went into hypoglycemic shock. So glad the boys came into my life and are happy and healthy little...
Pepsi has this odd sore on his paw and of course he won't stop licking it. It seems to be getting bigger, I think mostly because he's messing with it a lot. It appears moist in the photo, but that's just because we applied an antiseptic and it was still wet (boy was Pepsi ticked at us!). It...
First, let me just say how darn helpful this site is - I may not post a lot but I read through various forum topics almost daily...very helpful for a 'reluctant' rescuer like me who didn't know anything about cats but quickly fell in love!
Pepsi and Koopa were 3 weeks old when they came into...
When we took Pepsi and Koopa in for their shots, we asked the vet to check for ear mites since they were scratching quite a bit at their ears. Turns out that they both have ear mites, and the vet prescribed Revolution, a one time treatment and advised that we clean out their ears prior to...
So I've had Koopa and Pepsi for 2 weeks now, and they are by the vet's estimate 5-6 weeks old. I don't have a scale at home, so I can't confirm this as of yet, but it really seems to me that only Pepsi is growing. They were both terribly tiny and malnourished and Koopa was definitely the worse...
My son brought home two tiny kittens 3 days ago, saying there was a woman with a Free Kittens sign on the sidewalk he uses to come home from school (yes, he knows better at 12 years old, but is such a softie for animals I'm just glad he didn't take the whole box of five kittens). Naturally, he...