I've never checked out a cat forum before, pretty kewl.
My wife and I recently took in a stray and her 4 kittens with the intent of taking them to a non-euthanizing animal shelter called "Furry Friends". We weren't going to keep any, as she is allergic to cats, and we wouldn't have it any other way but having an indoor cat. Here's how it happened: When the mama cat brought the kittens to the doorstep the first time, she was thin as a rail, so immediately, we fed her so she wouldn't be so slim, and so she could provide ample nourishment to the tiny kittens, who where at this time roughly 2 weeks old. Since we knew once we fed her, she'd be here for a while, my wife and I constructed a little cardboard kitten box with some bedding and no top. About a week later, we noticed that the mother cat and all the kittens were covered with flea eggs, and some had already hatched, (a neighbor had given the cats/kittens some old dog bedding previous to their making their way over to our house) so we made a trip to the vet who gave us some cat advantage, and instructed us on how to and how much to apply to, a 3 to 4 week old kitten. The mother cat was carrying all the fleas when they came over, she is long haired, so we didn't see the eggs, or the fleas she later passed on to her kittens. So we treated them all, got them all cleared up and they were all set. To make a long story short, the vet told my wife of a few methods to keep down her reaction to cats, and me being a Leo, a natural cat person, talked her into keeping our sweet little kitten, when a lady down the road adopted the mother cat and the other 3 kittens. So without further ado, our little heart-melter, Pixel : (thanks to Robert Heinlein
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