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Post by chapeaunoir on Aug 4, 2018 4:17:10 GMT
Murphy has some beeeg ears!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 21:47:46 GMT
Toby was picked up this morning for his neuter and retest for FIV. The Missy family was glad to see him out the door as they fasted over night with him.
I gave up on the group fast pretty quickly. Like after the first time. Too much whining and bewilderment for cats used to grazing.
Now the lucky cat goes to the vet for dinner and a sleepover pre-op.
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Post by kritter on Aug 10, 2018 22:12:26 GMT
We celebrate together and we suffer together here.
Murphy went in for his neuter this morning but he fasted in the foster bedroom by himself last night.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 13:52:00 GMT
Kritter, if you'd had Lamington you might have changed your tune. He used to muster all his courage and come to find me, even in rooms he didn't usually enter, and look up at me with his little, furry, bewildered face. "Hello, Food Lady? Excuse me, but where is my food? I can't find any food."
And even when I explained he was too distressed to understand that it was only for tonight, not forever, and tomorrow he could eat as much as he wanted. This cat that never meowed, would meow. All night.
It was heartbreaking. And anyway, depending on which vet wrote the bill, I wasn't always charged for the sleepover.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 16:31:21 GMT
Awwwwwwwwww, Murphy is adorable. The little spot under his chin.... cute.
So what happened to Toby?
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Post by kritter on Aug 13, 2018 16:39:36 GMT
Toby is still here. Black cats have a harder path to find homes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 16:56:23 GMT
Awww, that's too bad. I don't get the reluctance to own a black cat, they're beautiful. I had a black cat (rescue) named Kiyoki who came out of a hoarders home. Pretty sure she was a Burmese and she was the sweetest cat. When I was at the animal shelter she reached out to grab me. I fell in love. She was definitely a snuggle kitty.
Ernie is all black. He's my little bad boy black panther.
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Post by kritter on Aug 13, 2018 17:07:02 GMT
Toby is really sweet and a great kitty. He is also moving into teenage size so that doesn't help his opportunities.
Too many other kittens this time of year to choose from too.
I am picking up 4 more little ones this afternoon. They were brought into my vet along with their momkat. Momkat is being spayed and will go back with the owner but she wanted the kittens euthanized because if she took them back home, her husband would shoot them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 17:46:21 GMT
Hmmmm.... too bad. Kittens are fairly easy to unload around here. People need to spay or neuter their animals and stop the breeding. We have plenty of low cost places to do this. Not sure about your area. But there is no excuse not to fix an animal in our area.
There are a bunch of cats at one of the dairies down the road. Long story - but the wife of an employee is letting the cats breed like crazy. I've suggested to her to sell the kittens and use the money to fix the adults along with shots. She won't do it. One of my catch and release cats made it's way up there. I explained to her why the ear was tipped. I did offer my help. They're disgusting - I won't go into it.
I use to do catch and release in our area, but I haven't seen signs of a stray in about two years. I think Ernie is patrolling this property and our neighbors. lol
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Post by Desire on Aug 13, 2018 18:03:07 GMT
When we were kids the neighbor across the street had several cats that roamed the neighborhood and had litter after litter. One day my brother came in all excited an upset - he said "Jim" the neighbor was going to take the kittens and drown them down in the river. We all started to yell and cry and were begging my mother to go save the cats. Of course she wouldn't, said it was none of her business and she couldn't interfere with Jim. My father did go over to talk to him and was told to mind his own business or he would call the police, said there were no kittens there. I don't know if way back them they had any safety nets for stray animals, this was going back 60 years ago.
I'll never forget it, several of the neigborhood kids decided to take up watch and spy on Jim and see if we could find the kittens and save them. I remember a group of us sneaking into his yard and looking into his shed windows as clear as if it happened yesterday. We never found where the kittens were, but found out later he put the kittens in paper bags with rocks and took them down to the river. My sister used to call him cat killer after that whenever he was referred to.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 13, 2018 19:50:37 GMT
Just so everyone knows - I'm not taking Toby because he's a black kitty. I LOVE black kitties. I'm getting Murphy because Kritter thinks he'll do better at Chez Crain. It's me and Trix, no dogs and no kids, and Murphy is a former feral who is still a little shy at times. He'd be harder to place at an adoption event than Toby. If my apartment complex allowed more than 2, I'd be taking Toby too. I'm happy to get any kitty Kritter wants to let me and Trix adopt
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Post by kritter on Aug 13, 2018 20:18:16 GMT
We have an overload of kittens around here this time of year even through we have free spay/neuter clinics in abundance. The groups that I foster with actually have the nerve to ask a person to fill out adoption paperwork plus make a small donation to perpetuate the work that the rescues do. Efforts are made to make sure the kittens are going to a good home instead of being used as fighting dog bait. Finding a good home for the kittens is a lot harder than just unloading them to anybody in front of Walmart.
Because there are so many kittens that are given away free to unload them without being spayed/neutered, the problem just keeps on rollin'. Unfortunately some of the culture here looks at cats and dogs as disposable because they can always get another one. Not worth taking the time to take it to a free spay/neuter clinic or even keep it safe.
OK Off my soap box.
P.S. Whichever kitty goes to Val's and Trix's house is going to be very lucky. I wish I could find more great homes like that even if I have to transport kittehs around the country.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 13, 2018 21:15:02 GMT
My next move will be to a place that lets me have more than two pets
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Post by kritter on Aug 13, 2018 21:46:38 GMT
I suck so bad with feeding kittens this age.
In reference to my new foster kittens that were with their nursing momkat this morning and with me this afternoon.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 0:26:00 GMT
A stupid woman on facebook was saying, on an adoption page, that they should give older kittehs away for free. I said no, maybe a reduced rate, but they have to cost something otherwise they're seen as disposable.
She said SHE got a free kitteh from gumtree (an online site with no rules about animals, owned, I think, by ebay) when she wanted a cat but couldn't afford to buy one. Then she somehow segued into a bitch about how she's just paid thousands for the cat's leg surgery so it was just as well it was free.
I wasn't going to answer but I think I have to as thinking of her stupidity still has me simmering. She needs a good slappin'.
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Post by kritter on Aug 14, 2018 0:51:57 GMT
Yes, she does so get right on it.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 14, 2018 1:06:25 GMT
60 was too old...I guess the rescue ladies were onto something!Bullcrap. 60 isn't that old, and I would have been insulted for them to insinuate that I was going to die in 15-20 years. Cats are great pets for older seniors. Less hassle than dogs. Your shelter ladies were too full of themselves. Kritter has a couple for adoption...possibly more to follow.... but he said there was something about Tucker that he "identified" with (from 2-3 pics no less) It happens. I did that with Trixie. I even remember exactly which picture it was.
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Post by kritter on Aug 14, 2018 1:25:15 GMT
Tucker was a great kitten.
60 is definitely not too old for a kitten but I can also see where they are coming from. So many pets end up being unwanted when their owners of any age die and nobody in the family wants them. They are often just turned loose to find their own way or turned into the city pound. Here when an animal is turned in by "owner" to the city shelter, they have 3 days to get adopted or they are euthanized.
Some of these pets only know their owner and are totally traumatized losing their person plus being thrown into a completely foreign situation. Most of my cats would not be considered adoptable because they know only me and it would be hard for them to adjust to a completely different situation than they have known all their life. That is why I need to outlive them.
If your husband sees another kitten of mine that takes his heart, let me know. Planes fly everywhere. Murphy or Toby will be my 4th kitten transfer of one of my fosters but transports both by road and by air leave here every month with dogs and cats going all over the country.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 1:58:24 GMT
We have an overload of kittens around here this time of year even through we have free spay/neuter clinics in abundance. The groups that I foster with actually have the nerve to ask a person to fill out adoption paperwork plus make a small donation to perpetuate the work that the rescues do. Efforts are made to make sure the kittens are going to a good home instead of being used as fighting dog bait. Finding a good home for the kittens is a lot harder than just unloading them to anybody in front of Walmart.
Because there are so many kittens that are given away free to unload them without being spayed/neutered, the problem just keeps on rollin'. Unfortunately some of the culture here looks at cats and dogs as disposable because they can always get another one. Not worth taking the time to take it to a free spay/neuter clinic or even keep it safe.
OK Off my soap box.
P.S. Whichever kitty goes to Val's and Trix's house is going to be very lucky. I wish I could find more great homes like that even if I have to transport kittehs around the country.
When I use the phrase unload - I'm speaking about what I do. I've never had a problem unloading kittens. I charge 50 a pop on CL - for that exact reason. I've never given an animal away for free because I've always felt there's more value when someone pays and they're more likely to take the "adoption" serious. Obviously I don't have anyone fill out paperwork being a private citizen. But I've mostly dealt with ferals in our area and I give them away as soon as they can eat solids - and that's pretty young. Some people wouldn't agree with separating that age from the moms, but I'm not concerned about that opinion. If the ferals aren't removed early enough then they'l just become hissy spitting things that die a sickly death, get hit in the road, or become coyote chow. This is the advice I gave the woman at the dairy. Let the kittens go young and use the money to fix the rest. It's not that hard to do. The low cost spay and neuter clinic that I use to use was great for adult ferals. They had a thing against the feral kittens because they felt it was taking away from their adoptions. They closed down. They were called Every Creature Counts.... but really, not every creature counted to them as they didn't care as much for the ferals. ETA: My post had absolutely nothing to do with free kittens.
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Post by allikat on Aug 14, 2018 11:11:53 GMT
I fell hard for Jackson, if I wasn't so allergic to cats I would have found a way to get him here. He stole my heart!
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Post by kritter on Aug 14, 2018 14:49:57 GMT
Yes, Jackson was a special kitten too. So many kittens pass through here that are great but there are those few that are memorable in one way or another. The 4 little ones that are here now are going to be memorable because they won't pee or poop. Murphy is going to be memorable because he is a jerk.
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Post by titus730 on Aug 14, 2018 18:10:09 GMT
That nonsense about seniors adopting pisses me off. The no kill shelter I support, PAWS, has adoption fees. Kittens and puppies are the most expensive. Senior cats and dogs are the cheapest because they're "less desirable". They used to have a program for seniors to adopt with discounts on the fees. I wonder if they still offer it.
Kritter, I love seeing the kitten photos but if I adopt again it will be an adult or senior kitty.
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Post by kritter on Aug 14, 2018 18:31:13 GMT
I can make that happen for you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 0:21:16 GMT
I'm going to be blunt.
Say an ancient crone of 60 (joking, joking, put heaps of smilies etc in here) adopts a cat that's 3 years old. A cat that wasn't likely to be adopted because it was kitten season.
Say the ancient crone carks it 10 years later. The cat gets surrendered, no one adopts it, it gets put down.
That's sad, but isn't it better that the cat lived to age 13 than age 3? (She was a nice ancient crone.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 0:30:46 GMT
Anyone worried about the fate of their cats and dogs, maybe birds etc too, should research animal organisations in their state. Two in my state will take cats/dogs if you leave them a bequest. They do their best to re-home the friendly ones (I think the owner has to agree to that though) but ALL are guaranteed life at the facility. It's not ideal, a big cat/dog compound, but at least they're not on the streets and vulnerable. I had a plan to have Bubby euthanised if I died before her. Every other cat I've known would get on okay without me, but she wouldn't have. Plus I didn't want to hang around the Rainbow Bridge for years until she came. .
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Post by val2525 on Aug 15, 2018 3:13:08 GMT
Murphy is going to be memorable because he is a jerk. Um, what is Murphy doing?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 6:07:13 GMT
Murphy is going to be memorable because he is a jerk. Um, what is Murphy doing?
He's climbing the curtains, chewing through all the electrical cords and the blind cords, making Daisy cry, and has just spent $500 on Amazon without permission.
But remember, Val, you said, "I'm happy to get any kitty Kritter wants to let me and Trix adopt".
And you said it in front of witnesses. lol.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 15, 2018 8:14:32 GMT
Oh I'll still take whichever cat arrives with Kritter. But it never hurts to be prepared.
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Post by kritter on Aug 15, 2018 14:57:29 GMT
Murphy is walking around growling at any of the Missy family that happen to be in his vicinity. Poor Lucy and Dixie are minding their own business when Murphy walks by and gives them a growl. He wants to go back in the foster bedroom and have Toby come on play dates but that is not happening because the foster family is now in the foster bedroom.
I think it is pretty much decided that Toby is going to Val's if that is OK with her. Toby deserves a great home with Val and Trix and they deserve a great cat like Toby. Murphy is still a work in progress.
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Post by val2525 on Aug 15, 2018 16:43:25 GMT
Trixie and I will make room here for whoever (whomever?) you bring on the plane Sounds like maybe Murphy should be an only cat?
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