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The baths went without incident.  I enlisted the help of the 14-year-old daughter of a good friend, who was extremely happy to assist!  I did the bathing, she did the rinsing and toweling.  The soap necklace worked great.  We had to put Nola in my bedroom and close the door, because the second...

I have Dawn soap always because of its renown for being gentle to animals (excepting fleas).  Thank you for the swift and specific advice.  I do have flea combs at the ready.  I'll re-post tomorrow after the babies are "dosed" or if you prefer, "doused!"   (Heads protected of course!)  I love...

I live in SW Louisiana, so flea season is underway.  I guess I underestimated just how early it began.   MommaCat ("Nola") was treated with "Advantage II 5-9lbs" on May 12, about  7 hours before she gave birth.  She had been living in my house for a solid month before.  All kittens are healthy...

The kittens are fifteen days old and adorable!  They are comically disproportionate -- about 20% head -- and all appear to be perfectly healthy.  She is the best-mother-ever and is tolerant of most of the other cats except, for some reason, Zorro.  I have no idea what happened there.  I haven't...

I live in semi-rural SW Louisiana.  Feral cats are pretty much a part of life.  I have four house cats and only one of them was deliberate -- I brought Orly (my photo cat, above) with me when I moved here, and he came from a PetSmart shelter.  All three of the others (Mali, Graylie and Zorro)...

It sure does.  One of my evil pleasures is flea-combing fleas into a waiting dish of Dawn-soapy water.  Death in about 1.5 seconds.  Mwahahahahaha!!!

Extreme ears!  I love that photo....I think that's a Papillon (and a Scottish Fold).   I've had as many as three cats and three dogs at once.  My dogs were two Paps and a Jack Russell, so they were "sensibly sized" to co-exist with kitties.  However I don't think that's a prerequisite - my...

Advantage is a great product.  I dosed all five of my cats on Monday morning and super-pregnant MommaCat had six kittens that same evening.  All is well, and the fleas are completely gone!

Oh yes indeed, Momma is getting spayed.  The reason she hasn't been yet is because she disappeared last fall when Litter #1 was weaned but still young kittens.  I'll never know where she went, but that's the reason the first litter stayed feral.  I finally took an old grey Rubbermaid bin, cut a...

It was a long but wonderful night!  Sometime about six-ish, Momma started fussing with my other female, Mali, trying to force her off the sofa.  When I picked her up, I noticed Momma's backside was wet.  I carried her to "her" room and when I put her down, she jumped into the birthing box by...

Momma is really close to giving birth!  The kittens are kicking and moving, and she is trying to isolate.  I have two nests for her in "her room," one is a big rectangular box about 42" x 18" x 15" tall, and the other is a long, lower, allegedly under-the-bed storage unit that has wheels...

"Mighty paws!"  What a great looking cat!

The fabulous Stormy!

Clockwise, from top left:  Misty, Stormy, Zorro, and Graylie, who was then about one year old.