Hi All, its me again, I think I must be the queen of "the lady with the cats with the litter box and peeing all over the place" problems
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This time I have quite a heart warming story that now has a strange little complication.
I work in a garment manufacturing company thats adjacent (we share the same parking lot) with a produce company. 3 years ago they had a rat problem and brought in 2 cats (male and female,,,,why, I dont know, I thought an exterminator might do a better job). anyway
long story short.
those 2 cats became 10 cats, and then some left, some died, some kittens we assume were shipped off on accident (if hiding in crates), etc etc. either way, now we had 4 cats from the 3rd generation (we call them Nathan, Esther, and Natalie). Esther and Natalie recently had a litter of 6 each. All died except for 2. Esther had a dark gray kitten left named Nami and Natalie a light gray/white tuxedo named Amu.
Anyway, so my coworker has been for the past 3 years feeding, watering, and cleaning up after these cats since the produce company pretty much brought them in and when the "economy started to slow down" stopped taking care of them.
All of the cats , generation after generation have been pretty nice towards us but we haven't been able to touch any of them since they'd run away or freak out.
Now Nami, the dark gray, whos about now 4 months old about 3 weeks ago started being REALLY friendly, Purring and letting us pick her up and pet her. etc etc. ... 2 weeks ago we find her limping.
We didnt know what was wrong , but anyway, long story short. My best friend moved into a new home and told me she was looking to adopt a kitten. SO I TOLD HER I HAD THE PERFECT KITTEN FOR YOU!!.
anyway. so I picked up Nami last weekend, took her to get groomed (which she didnt even complain she's the worlds MOST PERFECT KITTEN). -- then took her to the vet the next day. I explained to the vet her situation that shes a stray that just happens to be super domesticated and beyond sweet and wanted nothing but being pet and held. the vet told me he would do an xray to try to figure out what happened w/ her limp.
the next day I pick her up ( I had her spayed, all her shots, got her ears cleaned, etcetc) --- and got a clean bill of health, MINUS THE LIMP.
APPARENTLY--- someone KICKED her or used a blunt force of some short and shattered her hip, the bone that connects her femur to her hip was completely gone, so it means only a strong impact could've shattered/dissolved it. The vet says with proper rest and diet, etc etc, she may be able to walk normally again one day but it wont be soon. For now she has to build up strength in her left leg.
she's 4 months and only about 3.5 pounds, she's really underweight
anyway she's now with my best friend and her roommate who couldn't love her more.
the ONLY PROBLEM IS
She's not using the litter box....
she's peeing on plastic???
At first we thought, maybe since she's got that messed up hip she can't get to the litter box on time because she's young, and for the first time had all the food and water she wants and maybe overfed herself?
the first night (this is kind of gross)-- but she had a lot to eat and began walkin towards her food again and what seemed like she needed to fart?? a bit of poo came out?? but she didnt seem to realize what she did...
yesterday I suggested they keep her in the bathroom w/ food and water/ litter.
they work from 8am to about 8pm yesterday, came home, and she held it in all day. the minute she got let out, she went straight for a heavy piece of plastic, and did a number 1 and 2...
does anyone have any suggestions?? we got additional litter boxes for her too...
could it be the litter? I mean she grew up in the streets so she never had the luxury of a litter box so maybe she doesnt know what it is? but how can u tell her to go on the litter box ?
I've love to hear any advice
I personally feel bad because my friends loooveee her, but I dont want to have adopted out to them something that isnt litter trained.
but besides that
omg
she is
the CUTEST kitten, the sweetest, cuddliest, nicest, everr!!! its INNNSAAANEEE shes feral ----
on another note
does anyone know how I can pursue a possible animal cruelty thing against this produce company? MY only fear is they wll come and take the cats. they're not very kind so I dont know if anyone would adopt them
its really sad situation we have.
This time I have quite a heart warming story that now has a strange little complication.
I work in a garment manufacturing company thats adjacent (we share the same parking lot) with a produce company. 3 years ago they had a rat problem and brought in 2 cats (male and female,,,,why, I dont know, I thought an exterminator might do a better job). anyway
long story short.
those 2 cats became 10 cats, and then some left, some died, some kittens we assume were shipped off on accident (if hiding in crates), etc etc. either way, now we had 4 cats from the 3rd generation (we call them Nathan, Esther, and Natalie). Esther and Natalie recently had a litter of 6 each. All died except for 2. Esther had a dark gray kitten left named Nami and Natalie a light gray/white tuxedo named Amu.
Anyway, so my coworker has been for the past 3 years feeding, watering, and cleaning up after these cats since the produce company pretty much brought them in and when the "economy started to slow down" stopped taking care of them.
All of the cats , generation after generation have been pretty nice towards us but we haven't been able to touch any of them since they'd run away or freak out.
Now Nami, the dark gray, whos about now 4 months old about 3 weeks ago started being REALLY friendly, Purring and letting us pick her up and pet her. etc etc. ... 2 weeks ago we find her limping.
We didnt know what was wrong , but anyway, long story short. My best friend moved into a new home and told me she was looking to adopt a kitten. SO I TOLD HER I HAD THE PERFECT KITTEN FOR YOU!!.
anyway. so I picked up Nami last weekend, took her to get groomed (which she didnt even complain she's the worlds MOST PERFECT KITTEN). -- then took her to the vet the next day. I explained to the vet her situation that shes a stray that just happens to be super domesticated and beyond sweet and wanted nothing but being pet and held. the vet told me he would do an xray to try to figure out what happened w/ her limp.
the next day I pick her up ( I had her spayed, all her shots, got her ears cleaned, etcetc) --- and got a clean bill of health, MINUS THE LIMP.
APPARENTLY--- someone KICKED her or used a blunt force of some short and shattered her hip, the bone that connects her femur to her hip was completely gone, so it means only a strong impact could've shattered/dissolved it. The vet says with proper rest and diet, etc etc, she may be able to walk normally again one day but it wont be soon. For now she has to build up strength in her left leg.
she's 4 months and only about 3.5 pounds, she's really underweight
anyway she's now with my best friend and her roommate who couldn't love her more.
the ONLY PROBLEM IS
She's not using the litter box....
she's peeing on plastic???
At first we thought, maybe since she's got that messed up hip she can't get to the litter box on time because she's young, and for the first time had all the food and water she wants and maybe overfed herself?
the first night (this is kind of gross)-- but she had a lot to eat and began walkin towards her food again and what seemed like she needed to fart?? a bit of poo came out?? but she didnt seem to realize what she did...
yesterday I suggested they keep her in the bathroom w/ food and water/ litter.
they work from 8am to about 8pm yesterday, came home, and she held it in all day. the minute she got let out, she went straight for a heavy piece of plastic, and did a number 1 and 2...
does anyone have any suggestions?? we got additional litter boxes for her too...
could it be the litter? I mean she grew up in the streets so she never had the luxury of a litter box so maybe she doesnt know what it is? but how can u tell her to go on the litter box ?
I've love to hear any advice
I personally feel bad because my friends loooveee her, but I dont want to have adopted out to them something that isnt litter trained.
but besides that
omg
she is
the CUTEST kitten, the sweetest, cuddliest, nicest, everr!!! its INNNSAAANEEE shes feral ----
on another note
does anyone know how I can pursue a possible animal cruelty thing against this produce company? MY only fear is they wll come and take the cats. they're not very kind so I dont know if anyone would adopt them