Feral Cat Behavior

roll call for sick kitties-
trump
shimmer
mercedes
sierra
everest
riley
madison
rocky
baker
panic
cole
chappy
oliver
matuse
taylor
who is healthy (knock on wood)
charlie
squirrel
mckinley
dash
wk
twirl
guinevere
livingston
cyclone
i have various degrees of sick kitties here. some are vomiting, some have fevers. there are no uri, i have mouth lesions or ulcers in some, in others their mouths are fine? no one is dehydrated, only a few are lethargic. i have disinfected the entire […]

Spent the morning and part of the afternoon at the vet’s office with four cats. I now have 14 cats vomiting. Riley is vomiting what looks to be blood. After a thorough exam on all cats, the vet thinks that this is a virus. She said calici, but I don’t think so. Trump was diagnosed […]

Yesterday, I went to Costco and bought cat food. Kirkland dry and Fancy Feast canned. I opened up the new bag and poured some out in the food trays. Two hours later, four cats began vomiting. By the end of the day, I have nine cats vomiting! I called the vet and they supplied meds: […]

The spoils of Christmas this year brought a huge smile to my face. I received from good friends a lot of goodies to bring kittens into good health. 473 ml of Albon, bacterial ointment and antibiotics for wounds, bandages, syringes, thermal heat blankets and kitten formula. Mike said my friends must know what I […]

I really try not to have favorites among the group, but I suppose that is unrealistic. Charlie has endeared himself to me from the beginning. He was so weak and almost lifeless when he arrived here, and now he is this spitfire of energy who loves my lap and loves life.
His latest trick is […]

This morning as Charlie was using the litter pan, I was close by. Before he could cover the evidence, I scooped it up and that’s when I noticed a small screw that he had passed. The screw is tiny, possibly a computer screw. I am hoping this was the source of the problem for him. […]

My life encapsulated on the NBC Cat Blog-
Reading the captions and the blurb made me smile on a day I needed it. Charlie has had a bad relapse and we are waiting word on the blood-work. I’m not sure what is going on and though they put a rush on the lab, it is so […]

The numbers here this year are overwhelming. With such a warm winter last year, the mating never stopped and kitten season seemed endless. In November, I was getting calls about kittens just days old! But now the weather is decidedly cooler, so I know the cycle has finally ended. The strays have taken […]

With the dining room table swallowed up by Mike’s latest project, I settled on the floor as being the perfect place to wrap the kids’ Christmas gifts. Getting into the attic where the gift wrap is kept turned out to be a challenge. Livingston, determined to explore every nook and cranny of our home, […]

Last night quite late the phone rang. When I picked it up and said hello, I heard a slurred female voice respond. It took me a minute to place the voice, and then I knew who it was. A girl (woman) actually, who I have never met in real life but when she was in […]