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ok my situtiuation
I have 7 tuxedo kittens I rescued...(there were 8 but one was having eating problems recently and died in the arms of a vet) and they are all pretty healthy little guys/gals. I thought they were two weeks but now that I look at their progress I'm thinking they may be only a week old and turning two weeks next week.
Lets start with vaccinations. Since I am a college student I have to try to keep everything low (my book for summer was $100 and I go to a community college
) My friend who is actually an RVT directed me to foster and smith for vaccinations. The only one I can get for 7 kittens is a 3-way (Feline Focus) given in the nose/eye. She said this was ok. Well we have went separate ways and I am now working hard playing catch up in school while she is juggling multiple kids, her own job, and a small business and I lost contact with her. I looked back just to give an estimate on how much it would cost and I see that they say its ok to give this to kittens 3 weeks old? Yeah don't know what to think about that but considering it because...
thing two...altering.
A very nice person e-mailed me and said that there was a clinic (Cause for Paws I think) that borrows the local SPCA center for a day and alters pets I guess...she didn't give me much info. She said they can be altered there at 10 weeks assuming they are healthy enough, have been vaccinated for distemper and up to weight. However I think the kittens might be 9 weeks by then. Is it ok even if they are 9 weeks? Also I have been trying to find how long I should wait after vaccinating for them to be altered. I tried calling vets and they insisted I wait till 6 months and pay $32 a kitten to have them vaccinated there. The only other vet hospital in the area that alters kittens at a young age hasn't gotten back to me on these questions or their prices unfortunately so I'm trying to search for answers myself. Also I have never heard of Cause for Paws and she said that I pay whatever I can afford...well honestly it isn't much (which is why I was planning on trying to get potential adopters to pay half my fee of $100 first). I think it sounds a little fishy.
I have 7 tuxedo kittens I rescued...(there were 8 but one was having eating problems recently and died in the arms of a vet) and they are all pretty healthy little guys/gals. I thought they were two weeks but now that I look at their progress I'm thinking they may be only a week old and turning two weeks next week.
Lets start with vaccinations. Since I am a college student I have to try to keep everything low (my book for summer was $100 and I go to a community college
thing two...altering.
A very nice person e-mailed me and said that there was a clinic (Cause for Paws I think) that borrows the local SPCA center for a day and alters pets I guess...she didn't give me much info. She said they can be altered there at 10 weeks assuming they are healthy enough, have been vaccinated for distemper and up to weight. However I think the kittens might be 9 weeks by then. Is it ok even if they are 9 weeks? Also I have been trying to find how long I should wait after vaccinating for them to be altered. I tried calling vets and they insisted I wait till 6 months and pay $32 a kitten to have them vaccinated there. The only other vet hospital in the area that alters kittens at a young age hasn't gotten back to me on these questions or their prices unfortunately so I'm trying to search for answers myself. Also I have never heard of Cause for Paws and she said that I pay whatever I can afford...well honestly it isn't much (which is why I was planning on trying to get potential adopters to pay half my fee of $100 first). I think it sounds a little fishy.