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I tested Mookie more and indeed the TV being on(it's our only TV) in the living room seems to be the root of Mookie's weird behaviors!
Mookie sat on my lap on the couch in the living room 3 times and as soon as I turned the TV on with the remote he bolted for the bedroom each time.
Help?
Just with time, he'll get used to it eventually.
Have you figured out if it's the tv being on, or the sound from the tv? You could always try to leave it on for a little bit on mute, then put the volume very low and slowly turn it up over the course of a few days (obviously not when you're watching it). It might help to condition him to it. I had a foster dog once that was afraid of the tv if I wasn't in the same room with him and petting him while it was on. If I left to get a drink or some food, he'd flip out and hide in his crate. I conditioned him to it in a few days, which is good because we leave our tv on when we go out so that the dogs don't have to hear everything that's going on outside (and bark at it as a result).
Droncit won't take care of round worm.
It's OK, he'll get into the swing of things! It's good to let them hide sometimes and just be. 
Droncit won't take care of round worm. It's OK, he'll get into the swing of things! It's good to let them hide sometimes and just be.
Okay well this seems to be conflicting with what we have been told by the vet/foster lady.
We gave them Tradewinds dewormer which used to be prescription but is now over the counter. It is tape worm and they do all have it. One of the cats she is still fostering pooped out a couple full worms today and we did find the little white rice sized bits of worm in Lady PurrPurr's and Mookies poop and Shirley found it in her cats too.
Anyway it was not fun giving the medicine at all but we got it down in both of them. Mookie bit my boyfriend's finger and drew blood.
As far as the puking. That has not happened at all today so maybe Lady PurrPurr was just puking because of stress. The diarrhea has continued though but should hopefully stop soon now with the medicine.
As far as Mookie and the TV goes he has calmed down quite a bit from yesterday to today. He seems to be adjusting. The TV is on right now and Mookie is in the living room sleeping in his bed.
Okay so the cats seem pretty adjusted now. There has been no vomiting since my last post almost 2 weeks ago and their poop has been "normal" for over a week and Mookie isn't scared of ANYTHING anymore and never hangs out under the bed.... and has turned into a terror!(but in the end he will probably turn into a lap cat like Lady PurrPurr.....he enjoys sitting on laps and being petted but only for like 3 minutes at a time and then he's off to play)
He has jumped on many tables and knocked down many nic-nacs(not sure how that is spelled? LOL) but he is now seeming to get it. I started snapping my finger at him and saying "No!" in a stern voice and then picking him up and talking sternly to him even though I know he doesn't know what I am saying. Then that quickly progressed to me just snapping my finger and saying "No!" to where he would jump down on his own accord and he is going to those tables and shelves less and less so I think it's working.
My major concern right now is the way they play with eachother...
Usually right about 10 PM they start wildly playing and chase eachother all over the place and run up and down the stairs chasing eachother and then they stare eachother down and one of them pounces on the other and then they wrestle....that would be fine if not for Lady PurrPurr making loud noises acting like she is she is being hurt and then hissing at Mookie. There have been a few times where I had to grab Mookie and chastise him and then I put him down and then Lady PurrPurr pounces on him just a few seconds later even though she was growling and hissing at him just a minute earlier.(Mookie is much more active in general than she is though)
At first it seems like they are both "playing" and then it seems to progress with Lady PurrPurr getting pissed off at him and hissing. I would not intervene if not with Lady PurrPurr's loud noises and hissing but I feel bad for Mookie after chastising him for that when Lady PurrPurr just comes right back around and pounces on him.
Other times they cuddle up together and clean eachother and Mookie still tries to suckle even though Lady PurrPurr has no milk but she still lets him.
I just don't want them to injure eachother and the way they wrestle and bite eachother and kick eachother in the face with their hind legs I worry about that happening and am not sure if I should be stopping it or not??? If they are just playing why does Lady PurrPurr hiss at him???
They're playing. I'll give you more body language to look for, but this sounds JUST like our Ming Loy. She is ALWAYS the instigator - but as soon as someone responds, she acts like they're killing her and she's dying. We used to intervene - and now we know... she's like that little kid that puts her foot out to trip someone, immediately pulls it back and looks all innocent. The person tripped gets up and shoves the kid that tripped him - and the kid that did the tripping starts screaming her head off. 
And no one got hurt or was in any real danger of being hurt. So it's a normal part of play - even though hissing is used to communicate a warning as well, and the "tail bush" is a defensive mechanism that makes them look bigger when involved in a confrontation. They also happen naturally during play. If you have to ask "is that a ridged back?" it isn't.
UGGGHHHH! I thought I was done with this thread but no!(although this doesn't have to do with Lady PurrPurr or Mookie who are both fine...more on that later)
I went out for a cigarette tonight and a cat with no collar that was skin and bones was meowing in the yard and didn't seem "feral" unlike most of the cats around here because when I called for it every single time it responded with a meow but it wouldn't come to me.(unlike Lady PurrPurr this cat seems "skittish" but still non-feral") and then after 10 minutes of trying to get this cat to come to me(this is after midnight by the way) I went in and woke my boyfriend up and we got some dry catfood in a bowl and went out and poured it outside while calling for the cat who still would meow in response but after we went in the cat didn't come over to eat so we opened a can of tuna and scooped half of the can into the bowl and now this is over an hour later and the bowl is untouched. (such a waste!)
Anyway I doubt we will be seeing this cat often like Lady PurrPurr who was friendly and not scared of people from the start but we'll see...
As for Lady PurrPurr and Mookie....
I don't even know where to begin with how naughty(ESPECIALLY Lady PurrPurr....Mookie seems to actually learn unlike her) they have both been but it's continually and slowly getting better.
Mookie is at times an adorable fluffball who wants nothing more than your attention and at other times he wants nothing more than to attack and bite and scratch at your feet out of NOWHERE!
Lady PurrPurr is starting to become "fat"(which is funny considering she was skin and bones when we first encountered her) and we don't know how to stop it because they both eat kitten food and Mookie still needs to eat kitten food for another 6 months!
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Anyway it looks like the stray cat we tried to feed tonight won't eat.
We only used half a can of tuna and right away covered up the the rest of the tuna and put it in the fridge.
We let Lady PurrPurr and Mookie split a can of fancy feast ever Thursday night as a treat(they each get their own bowl and we don't let them steal from eachother's bowl)
Anyway I am just kinda bummed about the cat food and the tuna that was wasted for this new stay that didn't eat it.(I guess we will just dump it tomorrow for other scavengers to eat)
But now there is a covered half can tuna sitting in the fridge and I don't want it to go bad now that it's opened so can I let them eat the rest of the Tuna from the fridge instead of a can of Fancy Feast?
Sorry for the slow update.
Mookie is probably around 6 - 6.5 months old right now. He has been getting better with about attacking feet lately and stops when we say "no" to him.
I have no idea if Mookie has all of his adult teeth or not? I've never found any of his baby teeth(although the vacuum cleaner probably has)
As for feeding....we could do timed feeding but not sure how much and how often to feed them? They get dry food but they do get to split a can of fancy feast once a week which Lady PurrPurr usually gobbles up as fast as she can and then tries to push Mookie out of the way and eat his but we don't let her.
NOW FOR A RANT!!! I just need to vent....about the Mexicant family across the street AGAIN!!! A few months ago we noticed they got a puppy. (
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We continued seeing the kids with the puppy for weeks and when the kids saw use there was no longer little temper tantrums from the little boy of "Where's my kitty?!?!?!"(probably because he didn't care about the "kitty" anymore because the family now had a puppy to NEGLECT)
Unsurprisingly we have not seen any evidence the puppy still exists in over a month now(It's probably DEAD or in a shelter somewhere) and tonight I brought out the recycling bin and that little boy all of a sudden started his tantrums again. (although this time it was plural: "Where's my kitties?!?!?!?")
I ignored him at first but then I muttered "Oh God! Shut Up!" to myself(I didn't think it was THAT loud) and of course he heard me and and he said "No you shut up! Where's my kitties?!?!?" and I responded with "WHERE IS YOUR PUPPY???" and then walked away.
I hate this family so much!
An update since it's been a long time.
Even though I didn't originally want them I have become accustomed to having both Lady PurrPurr(or "PurrPurrTraitor" as we call her after she has been naughty) and Mookie who is a hyperactive mostly adorable ball of fluff who is absolutely terrified of our ceiling fan.(we had some VERY unseasonably warm whether here in Minnesota earlier this month where the windows were open and then the fan was on.) Lady PurrPurr isn't scared of the ceiling fan in the slightest but Mookie is scared to death of it. It's been off for over a week now so no problems but soon enough this will have to be dealt with because I don't want Mookie to be scared of it.(will deal with this as the time comes....I've already googled issues with cats being scared of ceiling fans)
Lady PurrPurr has tried to sneak outside on a few occasions(moving large objects through the backdoor which takes time) and she has succeeded a few times for all of a few seconds but she always pauses once she is outdoors and then she gets scooped back up and brought back in. She also sits on the window sills and "cries" when we are outside in the backyard because she wants to be there too.
Mookie has no desire to "escape" outdoors but he is an oddball of fluff. I swear he is part "dog"! Mookie will be sleeping in another room and if I call his name 3-4 times he will come running out to the couch to me.(Lady PP will NOT...she will just stare daggers at me and will act all "***?" if I beg her to come to me) Mookie also plays "fetch" with his stuffed mice toys! He will literally jump off the couch and get his mouse and run it back to you and drop it for you to throw again 10 more times!
Nail clipping isn't easy because both of them yank their paws away unless they are extremely tired, Mookie is easier because he exhausts himself with his hyperactivity and if he is really tired he is almost in a coma! With Lady PP it's more difficult and clipping has to be done 2-3 nails at once over a week long period.
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Back onto the Mexican family across the street....SERIOUSLY I need advice!
It turns out the little dog they got a few months ago is still alive and now runs across the street into our yard and all over the block before the Mother goes and gets it. (I guess the idiot Mother would rather have the dog get hit by a car while her children watch rather then invest it a chain?)
The kids were hitting it with a branch today!
The little brats run around everyone's yards around the whole block so I don't even know why I am even slightly surprised that they ran across the street and up our driveway into our backyard and saw Lady PP and Mookie sitting on their perch in front of the window when we were gone shopping. We got home from shopping
There is no way they could have seen the cats from the front of the house without a stepladder to reach the windows and they have ran through our backyard before and when we got home the youngest 2 brats screamed they knew we had their kitties because they looked in our windows!
I wish the Mother spoke fluent english because I want to tell her ass off at this point and I want her to UNDERSTAND!
I'm so sick of this bullshit! Do I have any sort of legal recourse against them as far as a "restraining order" and how can I keep their dog that they don't care for from becoming roadkill?
I would call animal control about the dog. Take pictures of the children hitting the dog and show to the animal control officer. And, is there a Lease Law in your county/state? Proof of rabies vaccination?
Put a sign (in Spanish) on your lawn saying "private property; no trespassing"; and then take pictures of the kids in your lawn. Not sure what the laws are in your state, but I'd also want to call Child Protective Services; if the children are out unsupervised (is there a curfew law?) at night, then they are in danger.
What about the (real) owner of the property? If the house is that bad, I'd either talk to the owner or call who ever in your county/city/state is in charge of code enforcement; I'd hazard a guess that the house isn't up to code and could be condemned.
In all/any discussions with the county/city/state, emphasize that the adults do not speak English, so an official who speaks fluent Spanish will be assigned to the case.
And do this NOW; this stuff takes time.
Finally, I would get Lady PP and Mookie microchipped.
