My neighbor has fostered/cared for cats and kittens for years. She is known well enough that people seek her out for help with strays/ferals and have even covertly dumped kittens on her doorstep.
Long story long (never can make them short), right now she has a mama cat and 6 kittens (two belong to mama, 4 others are one of the cases where someone dumped them on her doorstep - and mama took them on as her own). All the kittens are well socialized and crazy full of energy (of course) and play and play and play whenever they are not eating or sleeping.
The kittens are all around 11 weeks old and are due to be spayed (2) and neutered (4) along with mama next week. She plans on taking care of all of them after surgery - and of course after healing, all of them will be put up for adoption. She figures the kittens will be adopted pretty quickly, but will continue to take care of them all - including mama (1 1/2 to 2 yo) - for as long as it takes to get them adopted. She works with a local rescue center who also partners with a local PetSmart for food/supplies/medical care/etc. and that is where they will be adopted from.
After all that - my question is this: is it reasonable (maybe sane is a better word) to keep all of these kittens and mama together - in the same room - after surgery while they are healing?
She has the summer off from her job, so she will be more readily available, but she also has other cats to attend to at another location close by, so she won't be with them 24/7.
I can't do anything about it, but was hoping to hear this isn't as bad of an idea as it seems to me.
Thanks!
Long story long (never can make them short), right now she has a mama cat and 6 kittens (two belong to mama, 4 others are one of the cases where someone dumped them on her doorstep - and mama took them on as her own). All the kittens are well socialized and crazy full of energy (of course) and play and play and play whenever they are not eating or sleeping.
The kittens are all around 11 weeks old and are due to be spayed (2) and neutered (4) along with mama next week. She plans on taking care of all of them after surgery - and of course after healing, all of them will be put up for adoption. She figures the kittens will be adopted pretty quickly, but will continue to take care of them all - including mama (1 1/2 to 2 yo) - for as long as it takes to get them adopted. She works with a local rescue center who also partners with a local PetSmart for food/supplies/medical care/etc. and that is where they will be adopted from.
After all that - my question is this: is it reasonable (maybe sane is a better word) to keep all of these kittens and mama together - in the same room - after surgery while they are healing?
She has the summer off from her job, so she will be more readily available, but she also has other cats to attend to at another location close by, so she won't be with them 24/7.
I can't do anything about it, but was hoping to hear this isn't as bad of an idea as it seems to me.
Thanks!
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