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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / May 2007new foster kittens
Hi, I just brought home a group of five foster kittens, plus their mom. My resident can is not happy.....she hisses every time I try and pet her. Are there any ways to acclamate her to her temporary foster siblings? Will they work it out on her own?? Any ideas would be appreciated. Jenny > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Any ideas would be appreciated. Do you have mama and the kittens in their own room?  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Jenny I never let my fosters interact with my resident cats. It's not worth the risk as you never know what the fosters could be dragging in with them (if they lived in a good environment and were well fed they wouldn't be fosters) and I also don't know what my own might be harboring that the fosters haven't been exposed to. I keep my fosters in a spare room and have a Feliway diffuser plugged in right outside that door. It's also a good idea to wash your hands after handling the fosters. W >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > have a Feliway diffuser plugged in right outside that door. It's also a > good idea to wash your hands after handling the fosters. -------- I agree. When I was fostering, I kept my foster cats totally separated from my resident cats. If I would ultimately decided to keep a foster (which I did too many times and that's how I ended up with five resident cats and that's why I no longer foster :-), I did not introduce the fosters to the others until I had the foster tested for feline leukemia one more time (the fosters were all vaccinated and already tested by the rescue group as part of the intake procedure, but I know there can be a window where feline leukemia is undetected, so I wanted to be sure). I also made sure that my resident cats were current on all their vaccinations (including the feline leukemia vaccination). Normally, I try to vaccinate my resident cats as little as possible (since vaccinations do have a down side) since they are strictly indoors and the most recent "escape" was in 2001. Best regards, ---Cindy S. > <jennysa...@peoplepc.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > W I can tell you that this is true too, to my terrible detriment & that of my own cats too. I lost an entire litter of kittens by not observing the rule of no contact, and one of my girls caught the flu even though they were all inoculated, it ripped right through the house and wiped my littler of baby Ragdolls out..it was devastating & I have no wish to see you go through the same thing that we did, however remote the chances are.... PLEASE Observe just that one rule and you might be saving the litters lives's, truly!! Every word of what Wendy( & Cindy;o) tells you here is all excellent advice... Keep as clean as poss at all times and keep the cats separated too. Good Luck S;o) I am keeping them seperated. The foster cats have the run of the basement and the resident cats food and litter box are on the main level. But still she knows something is up......is hiding in an attic closet and won't come out..... On 4 May, 21:45, jennysa...@peoplepc.com wrote: > I am keeping them seperated. The foster cats have the run of the > basement and the resident cats food and litter box are on the main > level. But still she knows something is up......is hiding in an attic > closet and won't come out..... Good for you. I wasn't trying to scaremonger you BTW, I was trying to save you the heartache that we went through. If what I tell you now saves a single kitten, then it is worth the telling. The best of luck to you too . Please let us know how you get on with them, if you have the time of course? thanks in advance, S;o) >> Hi, >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > W I'm screwed. An abaonded female had her kittens outside and I brought her in to a spare room. The kittens are now 7 weeks and when I open the door one of them runs out and so does the mother and interacts with my other cats. Impossible to stop. I have set up an adoption process to get them all (mother and kittens fixed and into a Petsmart store [please patronize them...they give space for adoptions] but that won't happen for 2 or 3 more weeks. >>> Hi, >>> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > them...they give space for adoptions] but that won't happen for 2 or 3 > more weeks. Try setting up a baby gate just outside the door. http://tinyurl.com/25wyb9 You can step over it but it will slow down the kittens long enough to close the door again and keep them confined. > >> <jennysa...@peoplepc.com> wrote in message > >>news:1178249745.766632.312970@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > - Show quoted text - That gate looks Brilliant. In fact I wish we could get hold of some of the things that I have seen everyone leave links to. It is a shame because they are super ideas and inventions, but when you try to order from the UK, 99% of the time, we just get a sorry, we don't ship there.. I can understand why, so it begs the question, how can I make them, or who can I convince to take the idea on? I am more than certain there are Loads of people who would buy one because they look really handy. Presently, I have got an old child safety gate up @ the top of my stair's, covered twice round with chicken coop wire so that they can hurt themselves on it, or get through it. thanks for showing us that one S;o) either. |
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