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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:13 pm |
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Starving preggy... isnt preggy :D o/t
3 months ago an absolutely starving stray arrived. So hungry she would dart underneath other cats to gulp food. She needed 2 cans a sitting b4 she calmed down. ribs showing. A calico tabby.
I laughed a little cause she came home with scarface. the only unneutered male in my ragtag group, he is old and reg vets dont want to neuter due to age and other things. My hospital will, but not sure its the best idea. Anyway he brought his girlfriend home 
i thought she was pregnant, last while but.....tonight she came in for dinner, and i saw a little face peek around the corner of the couch when she was eating. a little BABY!!  little gray tabby.
sighs.. all i need  I didnt keep him and mom in, since i dont know if she has others outside.
but the baby is oh so cute!!!!
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| Cat
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:22 pm |
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Yep, more mouths to feed, but kittens are so adorable. I have enough trouble keeping my own cats, stray cat, oppossum, coon, and NO we don't live in the country, just a very secluded street on a river.
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| spngbobthebldr
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:29 pm |
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| Cat wrote: | | Yep, more mouths to feed, but kittens are so adorable. I have enough trouble keeping my own cats, stray cat, oppossum, coon, and NO we don't live in the country, just a very secluded street on a river. |
Two fully grown female cats, 2 males around a year old, 1 male and 1 female around 8 months old, 4 babies about 3 weeks old, 3 dogs, 2 rabbits and a wild possum and armadillo here. And that isn't including the strays that wander up from time to time. People seem to think my house is the local animal shelter and I end up with everyone's strays.
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| jenna
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:29 pm |
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Cat food is really cheap--buy Purina. My daughter was a pre-vet student when she found a stray cat about five weeks ago. She was devoted to saying the cat's life. I am convinced that this little cat helped her study. Save that little cat and be happy. Everything happens for a reason.
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| victims cry
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:30 pm |
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I think there is a sign in the woods saying "all sick and hungry go to xxxx street, there is a suck there that will look after you. " Most of em have awful social skills with people - ferals, or feline herpes or other things like being old, that would need a little to much patience or time for the humane society 
anyway im so glad that she safely had a kitten or kittens.given her condition when she appeared i was not sure she would, or she would survive labor. She was TINY. baby must be 6 weeks and i didnt think she had the kittens cause she didnt show much. just a little bulge to tell me she likely was. i did think it could be the starvation abdomen though as well.
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| reddog
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:33 pm |
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| jenna wrote: | | Cat food is really cheap--buy Purina. My daughter was a pre-vet student when she found a stray cat about five weeks ago. She was devoted to saying the cat's life. I am convinced that this little cat helped her study. Save that little cat and be happy. Everything happens for a reason. |
"really cheap" has variables......
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| Cat
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:38 pm |
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| spngbobthebldr wrote: | | Cat wrote: | | Yep, more mouths to feed, but kittens are so adorable. I have enough trouble keeping my own cats, stray cat, oppossum, coon, and NO we don't live in the country, just a very secluded street on a river. |
Two fully grown female cats, 2 males around a year old, 1 male and 1 female around 8 months old, 4 babies about 3 weeks old, 3 dogs, 2 rabbits and a wild possum and armadillo here. And that isn't including the strays that wander up from time to time. People seem to think my house is the local animal shelter and I end up with everyone's strays. |
Yikes!! You have as many critters as VC and me. It feels good to do something for God's creatures though. We also have a ton of birds we feed.
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| victims cry
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Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:39 pm |
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| jenna wrote: | | Cat food is really cheap--buy Purina. My daughter was a pre-vet student when she found a stray cat about five weeks ago. She was devoted to saying the cat's life. I am convinced that this little cat helped her study. Save that little cat and be happy. Everything happens for a reason. |
jenna, if i cant find a home, they all stay. I wont throw an animal out cause its hurt or old or sick if i can help.
I buy barncat for the outside strays, skunks and raccons, its a brand developed for farmers barns and very cheap, but the very sick ones get fancy feast, and the dying get baby food. The regular cats get friskies (out of them all they have the lowest carb varieties and bc of the prevalence of feline diabetes with dry foodand high grain carbs, i prefer not to give them reg dry or the crap, it costs to much in health care) I do give dry but its Innova Evo, the only dry good for diabetics and butterscotch is now a diet controlled one. So they all get it. I cant feed a bunch of diff diets, so balance the ones who need a special diet with what the healthy ones need. Marco gets metamucil in his wet for his chrons disease lol. Iwas down to 9.
sighs. guess its 10 now. but i should be able to find a home for the baby once it learns ppl are not monsters.
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| Siddalee
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Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:50 pm |
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VC, you are just awesome! I swear every week you are adding more and more jewels to your crown! My best friend also has a bunch of strays she feeds - even goes a couple of blocks away from her home to a wooded area and drops off food and water. She does try to trap as many as possible and has them neutered, then they return to the outside. Feral cats have such a hard life.
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| victims cry
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Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:30 pm |
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| Siddalee wrote: | | VC, you are just awesome! I swear every week you are adding more and more jewels to your crown! My best friend also has a bunch of strays she feeds - even goes a couple of blocks away from her home to a wooded area and drops off food and water. She does try to trap as many as possible and has them neutered, then they return to the outside. Feral cats have such a hard life. |
the reason i feed the raccoons outside is so i can keep the cat door open all night. That way ferals can come in and stay and explore all the weird human smells while im sleeping and cant scare them Then they decide this hooman bean thing isnt too bad. If they want to live here they do. Cant turn em out!!!! specially in winter. Since they are normally to chicken to come in an its so cold out, my friend built a tall deep box with shelves. Put a heat lamp in it and covered the front with a plastic overed blanket so they can "escape" if they see me but tis just at the patio door. that way i know they wont freeze in below zero weather and can be near fresh food and water. winter is when i get one or two old and dying ones though. They come in to the fire and get lots of loving til they go of old age. the normal sources of food, especially cottagers are gone, and the mice etc.
I like your best friend!
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| cajun
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Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:29 pm |
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VC, you sound like me. I have a calico cat that has been spayed and a beautiful siamese cross, that is still somewhat wild, come to live with me.
I have a horse, probably 50-60 chickens, never done a head count,LOL. I have 20 barbardo sheep and about 10 goats and one very spoiled pit bull. This year I lost my pot bellied pig she was very old and my 18 YO quaker parrot and I miss both. The pig was from someone that didnt want her anymore and the original barbardos were from someone that lived in town and couldnt have them.
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