So what happens to a basket of kittens in your neck of the woods?
In my area all the shelters are full so it’s either keep the basket of kitties or… We won’t talk about that.
I know this is preaching to the choir but for anyone else please have them spayed or neutered no matter what as soon as they are ready, about 8 weeks old.
Well, in this case my oldest kid will take care of them until they can be spayed/neutered and then homed out through the clinic’s informal network. In other circumstances they go to the no-kill shelter until someone adopts them.
Uh oh. Just to be clear, I’m not a cat! Despite my avatar 
(I’m also not a lawyer.)
You reminded me in a backwards way of a friend who is childless (child-free, she says) and who wound up in a career of being an adoption coordinator. She had no previous experience at all of handling babies, but she was sometimes in the position of literally being the person to transport a new baby to the new parents. But she told me, I found out it’s not that hard—you can just think of it like holding a cat! So maybe it’s just your general parenting skills coming to the fore, whether you actually like cats or not 
It’s OK. You’re still a great human. Plus nobody can resist the power of adorbs, especially from helpless kittens.
The nursing part is important. They look a couple of weeks shy of being old enough for 100% solid food.
Thank you! that’s it exactly. I have no talent with the gifs.
Dunno that part. My son has done a lot of this. The littlest one he’s currently got is being bottle-fed and gets the “manual-assist peeing/pooping” treatment. These newbies had solid food in front of them last night, but I don’t know the long-term care. The labels on the cans looked like specialized “teeny-tiny kitty” food to me, but I’m not the expert. They had a rough time at our place, getting a flea bath, an exam, and an antibiotic treatment for the respiratory infection.
That’s so cool that you’ve got someone in the family who is trained in all this!
Neither do I. I am baka, but not neko!
Its full name is Emanuel Todd Lopez?
So, she had a doozy yesterday.
If you’re squeamish don’t watch, it is difficult to see her like that. The video starts about a minute after it started, it was much worse before I started filming. We film as many as we can for the neurologist. After the convulsions stop she’s still having the seizure, you can see her twitching and just staring but she is not aware of her surroundings. You can see her right eye pupil is much larger then the left.
It’s scary and freaky stuff but the doctor says we can still treat her. After a seizure we up her medicine for three doses and than go back to normal. The doctor assures us she’s not in pain or aware it’s happening. We’ve been told not to intervene other than to make sure she’s not in danger like falling down stairs or off a table.
If this is too much of a downer for this topic just say so and I’ll remove the video.
It was a bad day yesterday but after we cleaned her up she went back to normal playing, cuddling, and eating within an hour and today she’s fine. They don’t tell you about this stuff when you sign up to be a pet parent but we still ain’t giving up.
I found the video not that difficult to watch, but of course we know from you that she’s fine today, and that the worst of it happened before the recording began. It must surely be very difficult to see it as it’s happening to her. I’m so sorry that you and your kitty have to deal with all this.
I appreciate your posts and feel that I learn something from them, and always appreciate your kindness to the animals.
And in humans being decent news… The colony isn’t that far from where I live and I often ride past it and stop to marvel at them (preferably upwind). It’s only about 3km from the CBD and has only been there for about 15 years after it was chased out of the (CBD-adjacent) Botanical Gardens in the hope that they’d roost somewhere in the Yarra Valley about 30km upstream. No such luck, and while most of the locals in affluent Kew have accepted them, there are still a few arseholes, such as the State MP quoted in the article.
(As it’s not Oneboxing, here’s a photo from elsewhere from the same colony.
Did someone buy their cat a car! Aw! I hope he drives carefully!
This is the first time I’m really taking care of a cat. I’m still feeling weird about the felines’ behavior and I’ve had some hard time trying to interpret what they want/“speak”.
Today I started to get worried. I saw that the cat didn’t touch the food. When I arrived she was waiting for me in the kitchen, but she was strangely calm and docile, more so than usual. she was needy, asking us to put her on our laps. I even managed to brush her back and belly, an activity she totally hates, to get rid of the dead hair. I noticed that she was stretching more than usual and lifting her tail, in a position that looked uncomfortable.
“Ah, caramba! She must be sick, it is the only explanation!”. My wife said she could be in heat. I said it was impossible, as she is very young and It is too early for that.She didn’t gave up and looked up some vet/pet articles on the Internet. Well, as usual, she was right and I’m beginning to believe that the cat went into heat anyway.
She looks about the age Other Cat was when she had her first heat cycle, between 4 and 5 months. Oh, that was … dramatic. She would be all “hello there, Sailor” to my husband, then when she got overwrought she would demand that I hold her while she cried. She peed on my side of the bed. She hated Kiddo, normally her favorite person. I didn’t want to have her spayed while in heat, but she was so miserable (and so were we) that off to the vet she went. It went fine, and in a couple days she started to calm the hell down.
She’s still high strung and will occasionally gaze at my husband with kitty bedroom eyes, which freaks him out a bit, but nothing like that first and only heat cycle.
