Hi everyone!
I'm a student, currently living in South West France with a menagerie of animals.
Shared with the rest of my family, I have a Newfoundland dog, three horses, four cats, twelve chickens, thirteen llamas and two tanks of fish.
Horses are my passion and I regularly compete with all three, Vigo, Sana and Hermes. I must admit, I know far more about them than I do about cats!
As for the kitties...
My first cats were three feral adolescents someone passed off to us about eight years ago to deal with the mouse problem on our farm. Sadly, two of the three turned out to be very malformed internally and died after just a year and a half, the third one just vanishing once her brothers were no longer around.
Realising that feral cats were unlikely to be what we wanted out of a pet cat, we adopted two adult (neutered) males from one of the local rescue centres. Oliver and Monkey. Though it took Monkey a good few years to open up to us, both made themselves at home outside with access to the conservatory for food, water and shelter.
After that, we decided we wanted something a little different. In came a rehomed Norwegian Forest cat (Skogkatt). She lives indoors so as not to end up in trouble with our neighbours dogs (the two other cats are careful to avoid them but she is far less ready to back down to other animals). Whilst not the most affectionate of pets, she seems to be very chilled out with the current situation.
The newest member of the family (and the reason for deciding I would like to be part of this wonderful seeming forum) is little Rocket.
Just a few weeks ago, this tiny ball of fluffy shot out of the undergrowth in a park near where I go to school and literally jumped into my arms. The poor tiny thing was underweight and dehydrated, having obviously been abandoned. We believe he is related to three day-old kittens my head teacher found by the public bins about a year ago.
Nobody in the area turned out to be his owner and so (in the conscience that he was too young to survive out with nobody to feed him) we took him home.
Our local vet estimated his age at about 5 weeks, booked him in for his vaccines and gave him a clean bill of health.
In all honesty, I know nothing about kittens and was never intending to get one, but there is no way we could rehome this little guy!
I'm imagining I'll be posting a large amount of questions about raising him the right way!
I'm a student, currently living in South West France with a menagerie of animals.
Shared with the rest of my family, I have a Newfoundland dog, three horses, four cats, twelve chickens, thirteen llamas and two tanks of fish.
Horses are my passion and I regularly compete with all three, Vigo, Sana and Hermes. I must admit, I know far more about them than I do about cats!
As for the kitties...
My first cats were three feral adolescents someone passed off to us about eight years ago to deal with the mouse problem on our farm. Sadly, two of the three turned out to be very malformed internally and died after just a year and a half, the third one just vanishing once her brothers were no longer around.
Realising that feral cats were unlikely to be what we wanted out of a pet cat, we adopted two adult (neutered) males from one of the local rescue centres. Oliver and Monkey. Though it took Monkey a good few years to open up to us, both made themselves at home outside with access to the conservatory for food, water and shelter.
After that, we decided we wanted something a little different. In came a rehomed Norwegian Forest cat (Skogkatt). She lives indoors so as not to end up in trouble with our neighbours dogs (the two other cats are careful to avoid them but she is far less ready to back down to other animals). Whilst not the most affectionate of pets, she seems to be very chilled out with the current situation.
The newest member of the family (and the reason for deciding I would like to be part of this wonderful seeming forum) is little Rocket.
Just a few weeks ago, this tiny ball of fluffy shot out of the undergrowth in a park near where I go to school and literally jumped into my arms. The poor tiny thing was underweight and dehydrated, having obviously been abandoned. We believe he is related to three day-old kittens my head teacher found by the public bins about a year ago.
Nobody in the area turned out to be his owner and so (in the conscience that he was too young to survive out with nobody to feed him) we took him home.
Our local vet estimated his age at about 5 weeks, booked him in for his vaccines and gave him a clean bill of health.
In all honesty, I know nothing about kittens and was never intending to get one, but there is no way we could rehome this little guy!
I'm imagining I'll be posting a large amount of questions about raising him the right way!
