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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / July 2007Major Milestone
The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away our bottles for good. Meowmie is so proud :-) They will be 5 weeks old on Sunday. I've made a list of things I'm gonna invent and market someday. I'm just so surprised at the lack of products available to help raise orphan kittens. Nothing out there except KMR & bottles. 1. A surrogate mother that has a heartbeat, heats up, and has nipples. 2. Some kind of kittypants so they can't suck on each other's genitals. 3. A training dish for kittens. Something they can get their heads in, but not their entire bodies. Kind of like a baby chick feeder, but lower to the ground. 4. Tiny, disposable cardboard litterboxes with edible litter. 5. Remedies for diarrhea and constipation. There is nothing available. Vets say, "Oh, give them Karo syrup. Give them mineral oil. Give them Kaopectate. How much? Oh, just a little bit. I want to see something formulated especially for infant animals, with a proper dosage on the label. Their separate personalities are becoming more distinct. The girl kitten is more independent, braver, and learns more quickly. The boy-kitten is still just a mama's baby. They play with toys now. They're really getting to be fun now, and not require so much worry and care. Sherry > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry Congratulations Meowmy you've done a wonderful job! Can't wait to see new pics (hinthint) Julie > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry Yayyyyyy! Major victory! More pics please. Suz&Spicey YAY! God bless your patience, Sherry. Are you keeping them? I know they KNOW you are their mama. So sweet. Lily & her mama  SignatureIrulan from the stars we come to the stars we return from now until the end of time. > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry > YAY! God bless your patience, Sherry. Are you keeping them? > I know they KNOW you are their mama. So sweet. > > Lily & her mama Ack. I can't keep them. I just can't. I already have five cats. Seven cats is too many for me to give the right kind of care. I've already neglected the resident cats terribly lately. I wish I could. I am really stressing about this. I mean, face it. They are tabby cats. I love tabbies, but they are a dime-a-dozen, every shelter is smack full of them, and so are ads hanging in the post office and in the newspaper. Free kittens, everywhere. I had one lady at church who wanted them. But she wants them for barn cats. That's out of the question for handraised kittens. My daughter is going to try to help find them homes at the hospital where she works. She's found some very good slaves in the past. Nurses are usually really good pet owners. Sherry >> YAY! God bless your patience, Sherry. Are you keeping them? >> I know they KNOW you are their mama. So sweet. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > good pet owners. > Sherry Any assisted living places that could be convinced they need a therapy cat or two on one or two floors? Jo > >> YAY! God bless your patience, Sherry. Are you keeping them? > >> I know they KNOW you are their mama. So sweet. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Jo That's a good idea, Jo. I'd thought about the Women's Shelter, too. We homed a cat with them several years ago; thought maybe they need another one (or two) Sherry >> Any assisted living places that could be convinced they need a therapy cat >> or two on one or two floors? > That's a good idea, Jo. I'd thought about the Women's Shelter, too. We > homed a cat with them several years ago; thought maybe they need another > one (or two) I think it's a great idea. Being hand-raised, they will most likely be very people-oriented cats, and very well-suited to Therapy Cat work - a very noble profession. Joyce <snip> >Any assisted living places that could be convinced they need a therapy cat >or two on one or two floors? > >Jo The nursing home that my mom lived in for 5 1/2 years has 2 resident cat therapists, Miss Kitty and Chocolate. Chocolate is a shy black boy, only coming out after all the visitors are gone. Miss Kitty is a gray tiger long hair love bug, with a special antenna for people who are dying (even if the staff doesn't know it!) She starts hanging out in the patients room, and sometimes even climbs on their bed. They also have a dog, Lexie, that comes to work with her owner. She doesn't get too involved with the patients, but will let you pet her if you want to. Mishi Awwww. More pictures please! > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is so proud :-) Yay!!! I remember that milestone from Weeble's days! > They will be 5 weeks old on Sunday. Happy 5-week-purrday! But..... Be afraid - be very afraid! They are about to become MAJOR hoolikittens! > I've made a list of things I'm gonna invent and market someday. I'm > just so surprised at the lack of products available to help raise > orphan kittens. Nothing out there except KMR & bottles. Our vet carried a version of kitten milk (also had some for puppies) that was NOT KMR - came in a small carton/box, like some of the kid's juice drinks do. And Weeble would NOT tgake a bottle when I first got him. I had to use a sirynge and somehow he latched onto that plastic good enough to make the plunger go down without any help from me! When he wore out that sirynge (the pluynger wouldn't move any more) I tried him on a bottle - he rufused it at first, until I gave it a squirt and he realized that there was good stuff in there! Then he was all appetite! > 1. A surrogate mother that has a heartbeat, heats up, and has nipples. There's one on the market that has a hearbeat, but probably not nipples. > 2. Some kind of kittypants so they can't suck on each other's > genitals. A sock - with holes for the legs & tail? > 3. A training dish for kittens. Something they can get their heads in, > but not their entire bodies. Kind of like a baby chick feeder, but lower > to the ground. I saw a teeeny dish the other day - loked like a rock - was made that way & sold as a reptile water dish - would probably do for (messy) kittens. > 4. Tiny, disposable cardboard litterboxes with edible litter. That would sell among the rescuers! I remember fashioning Weeble's first litterbox - he was only *3* weeks old! I went to change the towels in his box, and they were sopping wet! And he hadn't pee'd much at his last feeding, so I figured that he was ready to 'go' on his own. I used a cardboard tray that cans of pet food are shipped in, lined it with the plastic that had been the shrink warp that held the cans in the tray, filled it with clay litter, placed it in his nest-box, and plopped him down in it. He looked puzzled for a second, then proceeded to dig and throw half the litter out. Later he pee'd in it. Next morning, there was a tiny Weeble-turd in it as well. > 5. Remedies for diarrhea and constipation. There is nothing available. > Vets say, "Oh, give them Karo syrup. Give them mineral oil. Give them > Kaopectate. How much? Oh, just > a little bit. I want to see something formulated especially for infant > animals, with a proper > dosage on the label. When I had a kitten that had the runs, I gave them un-flavored pedialyte to help with the dehydratiuon bit - maybe a kitty version - felialyte???? > Their separate personalities are becoming more distinct. The girl > kitten is more independent, braver, and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Sherry You will worry - whenever you leave the house you will worry about what they will be getting into, and destroying, and you will tear the house apart if one (or both) of them decides to play hide-from-mommy (Weebs did that, and I finally found him - on the bed burrowed into a pile of pillows, snoozing on the softest one! Li'l stinker!). > > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > > our bottles for good. Meowmie is so proud :-) [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > finally found him - on the bed burrowed into a pile of pillows, snoozing on > the softest one! Li'l stinker!). Why didn't I think of the sock-thing??? That's so obvious. I think, for the time being though, that they have lost interest in each other's butts. One can hope. Good Lord. You would not *believe* the mess these two 1-pound kittens can make out of a bathroom. Litter everywhere! Food everywhere. Toiled paper rolled out. (yes, stupid me forgot to remove the tp) I went to Petsmart today and begged all their available fancy feast boxes. They're perfect for litterboxes for them. Pedialyte is good. When they had diarrhea, I used unflavored Pedialyte as the liquid instead of water to mix up their formula. Sherry > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry Now you can sit back and enjoy them for at least the next five weeks. I do believe there is nothing more fun or entertaining than baby animals. At least not that is legal. When we raised pups I could spend hours just sitting and watching them. Of course now I spend hours out back watching Camille (the Chihuahua) play but that is just to make sure she doesn't sneek through the fence. She is very well named. She had a shot and her nails clipped yesterday. Only one shot because she is still under 2 pounds. She is absolutely miserable. But has decided we might be allowed to hold her while she takes her dying breath. Jo > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Sherry Great! Glad to know they're doing so well. You've done a great job, Meowmie! Those poor sweeties would have had a bleak outlook without you. Melissa > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > I've made a list of things I'm gonna invent and market someday.... .... They > play with toys now. They're really > getting to be fun now, and not require so much worry and care. > > Sherry What a lot of great ideas! Now that they are growing up, maybe you can get some sleep. I just love those little flufballs with spike tails that go straight up in the air when they are that age. Annie > What a lot of great ideas! > Now that they are growing up, maybe you can get some sleep. Ha - they are just getting started raising hell! Joyce On Jul 14, 2:56 pm, annie_wx...@hotmail.com wrote: > > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > > our bottles for good. Meowmie is [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Annie Oh Annie, that's one of my favorite things about baby kittens. The way their tails look like little sticks. Sherry > The kittens learned to use the poopy-box today! We have also put away > our bottles for good. Meowmie is > so proud :-) > > They will be 5 weeks old on Sunday. <snip>They're really > getting to be fun now, and not require so much worry and care. > > Sherry Congrats! You've done really well, Sherry! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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