VintagePunk
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Awwww!!!!!!!! Seems like just yesterday, mine were that size. :sniff:
So, how many are you keeping? Because you know you will.
So, how many are you keeping? Because you know you will.
Awwww!!!!!!!! Seems like just yesterday, mine were that size. :sniff:
So, how many are you keeping? Because you know you will.
Thanks a lot VP!
I will def try out your suggestions - you're right, she IS eating an insane amount. She (whom I've dubbed Minou) weighs half the size of my Siamese, Misha, but eats double perhaps triple the amount of food. I'll try Purina One in kitty food and see how Minou tolerates it.
I really want to keep them until the kittens reach their 8 weeks but I'm not sure if my bf will be fond of that idea if it continues to smell this badly. (And I've tasked him with removing her litter since I gag every time)
The kitties are absolutely adorable - they turned 2 weeks today - the last one just opened her eyes yesterday.
I don't like to take too many pics of them for fear I'm hurting their eyes but here's one I took where they're looking away. I love how the mommy has her arm around one of them:
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions - I was getting increasingly frustrated from the conflicting information on the web.
So I would really like to keep the cat and her kitties in our basement until they're 8 weeks old, at which point the local Humane Society can pick them up but the mother's litter is intolerable - the smell and the amount of diarrhea made me gag tonight. I'm assuming it's because she has worms or something and nothing to do with nursing?
Anything anyone can recomment to remedy this?
Thanks!
That is the cutest thing ever.
You're on to something, there.
Since you guys like them so much, there are 4 available
Thanks Sue4U2 - I went to a catstore yesterday to buy this new kind of brush for Misha (Furbuster) and spoke with the catstore owner about the stray's problem. He suggested a new kind of cat food so gave me samples of Chicken Soup for the cat lover's soul. He, like others here, said the amount and the smell is probably due to a change in her food - going from a stray's diet (probably mice, birds) to normal food and it should clear up soon.
He also said it could be due to worms but said there wasn't anything I could give her while nursing.
I'm just not sure I want to take that chance, you know?
Biscuit just peed in the bath. I stopped her when she started to pee on the bathmat when I was about to get into the shower last week, but I didn't realise that she'd peed in the bath tonight until I heard her scratching around in there.
At least it's easy to clean since I can just wash it down the drain, but I'm not sure why she wants to pee in the bath. It also scares me because I have a superhuman sense of smell, but the one thing I cannot smell AT ALL is cat pee. So she could be peeing all over the house and I might be walking around all day smelling like cat pee and I'd never know.
Biscuit just peed in the bath. I stopped her when she started to pee on the bathmat when I was about to get into the shower last week, but I didn't realise that she'd peed in the bath tonight until I heard her scratching around in there.
At least it's easy to clean since I can just wash it down the drain, but I'm not sure why she wants to pee in the bath. It also scares me because I have a superhuman sense of smell, but the one thing I cannot smell AT ALL is cat pee. So she could be peeing all over the house and I might be walking around all day smelling like cat pee and I'd never know.
Our cat loves to pee on any towels that are lying around. He's also just started spraying on our coats and things that are hanging up. He's fixed so we think it might be because we have had a lot of other cats fighting in the yard. He can see them through the windows.
I can't smell the pee much either. . . . I dread the thought of having a house that smells like pets.
Female cat pee doesn't smell hardly at all -- male cat pee, on the other hand, stinks to high heavens.
So tonight we threw away probably half of Phil's entire wardrobe. Anything that was even just in the vicinity of what was peed on, I tossed. The worst part is that whoever did it last got some on Phil's love seat, so I keep dumping Nature's Miracle on it to try to lift the smell.
Speaking of Worf, she saw the "head vet" (he founded the vet place I go to) yesterday and he recommended taking off the bump she has on her leg. He thinks one of the bumps is a cyst (the one that's been there the longest in her armpit) but the other one that's new looks "iffy". She's going to go in next Friday to have them removed and sent to the lab. He said it was better just to go in and remove it because if it was cancerous they'd just have to go in later to do that anyway. He said it was small and didn't feel attached to anything.
To be honest, I'm kind of relieved. Even if the lump turns out to be bad, at least I'll know what it is instead of wondering. If it's cancerous, I wouldn't do chemo (she's 15), but at least it won't just grow and grow on her leg.
Biscuit just peed in the bath. I stopped her when she started to pee on the bathmat when I was about to get into the shower last week, but I didn't realise that she'd peed in the bath tonight until I heard her scratching around in there.
At least it's easy to clean since I can just wash it down the drain, but I'm not sure why she wants to pee in the bath. It also scares me because I have a superhuman sense of smell, but the one thing I cannot smell AT ALL is cat pee. So she could be peeing all over the house and I might be walking around all day smelling like cat pee and I'd never know.
Megan, might she have a bladder infection? I remember when our old kitty girl, Miss Purrl, started peeing elsewhere than her litter box, our vet had us bring her in to be tested and; sure enough, she did have a bladder infection, which was treated with antibiotics. The vet said that that when it hurts when they pee, they associate the pain with the litter box, so they go somewhere else.