Hey there.
My name is Robin. I posted yesterday with health concerns about a little feral I'm working with, and have already gotten a ton of support and advice - thanks to those of you who contributed.
I'm a middle-aged crazy cat lady who lives in a big house in a small town on the north shore of Lake Erie in Canada. My husband (or reasonable facsimile thereof) and I are childless by choice and have six cats.
The cats are the important ones, so I'll introduce them.
There's Walker, a fluffy black male, our problem child. He was abandoned in winter in the Rockies, and his past has made him a yowling, biting, albeit loving, maniac. Even long-distance (and expensive) consultations with a reputable cat behaviouralist haven't done a thing to fix Walkie, but he's cool anyway.
Angelica and Lily are littermates we adopted from a shelter. They're long-haired calicos with mysterious pasts, both of them are afraid of feet but are otherwise lovely, quiet cats.
When we moved to our current seedy town, there was a colony of feral cats living on the vacant lot next to our house. I started providing food and water for the colony during a hard winter, and am still attempting to find a spay/neuter/release organization to help me control the population. Both Iris and Violet, short-hair black girls, come from that colony; Iris more or less invited herself in one day after I picked a bunch of burrs from her coat. Violet is my baby; her mother was hit by a car in the middle of moving her litter, and Vi was the only one I could find. She was about three weeks old. We bottle fed her, stimulated her bowels by wiping her with a warm wet towel, all the usual stuff, and she rewards me every day by being the most affectionate cat I've ever owned.
We are in the midst of trying to adopt another of the ferals, a young black and white male Panda, but he's pretty sick... send him your thoughts, hopefully he'll make it.
This forum seems great. I look forward to visiting when I'm less stressed by the little sick guy.
To everyone who loves and helps cats - thanks.
My name is Robin. I posted yesterday with health concerns about a little feral I'm working with, and have already gotten a ton of support and advice - thanks to those of you who contributed.
I'm a middle-aged crazy cat lady who lives in a big house in a small town on the north shore of Lake Erie in Canada. My husband (or reasonable facsimile thereof) and I are childless by choice and have six cats.
The cats are the important ones, so I'll introduce them.
There's Walker, a fluffy black male, our problem child. He was abandoned in winter in the Rockies, and his past has made him a yowling, biting, albeit loving, maniac. Even long-distance (and expensive) consultations with a reputable cat behaviouralist haven't done a thing to fix Walkie, but he's cool anyway.
Angelica and Lily are littermates we adopted from a shelter. They're long-haired calicos with mysterious pasts, both of them are afraid of feet but are otherwise lovely, quiet cats.
When we moved to our current seedy town, there was a colony of feral cats living on the vacant lot next to our house. I started providing food and water for the colony during a hard winter, and am still attempting to find a spay/neuter/release organization to help me control the population. Both Iris and Violet, short-hair black girls, come from that colony; Iris more or less invited herself in one day after I picked a bunch of burrs from her coat. Violet is my baby; her mother was hit by a car in the middle of moving her litter, and Vi was the only one I could find. She was about three weeks old. We bottle fed her, stimulated her bowels by wiping her with a warm wet towel, all the usual stuff, and she rewards me every day by being the most affectionate cat I've ever owned.
We are in the midst of trying to adopt another of the ferals, a young black and white male Panda, but he's pretty sick... send him your thoughts, hopefully he'll make it.
This forum seems great. I look forward to visiting when I'm less stressed by the little sick guy.
To everyone who loves and helps cats - thanks.
