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A question for the experienced cat fosters: my niece has a cold/respiratory infection. My sister is insisting that she gets nowhere near the kittens because "they might catch it". The kittens are about 4 weeks old and in pretty good health, precocious little Thor has already taken to preferring wet food/stage 2 kmr mixture. Is my sister overreacting or is it reasonable to insist my niece not play with the kittens even if they approach her?
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Nov 4, 2016 21:10
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It's almost time for our fosters to find their homes. I'm gonna miss them, though I'm sure our cat Gonzo won't. He just hisses at them anytime they get too close. It's been hard to get pictures lately because whenever they're out of the laundry room, they all have the zoomies, but here's a rare "all zoomed out" pic. Luna, Joey, Thor, and Princess
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Nov 23, 2016 23:01
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So we finally actually rehomed one of the fosters successfully, after previous attempts fell through. Kind of relieved Princess, the gray girl, has her new home, since she liked jumping from furniture onto the table lamps and nearly knocking them over. Pretty sure my niece is sad, because Princess was her favorite.
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Dec 8, 2016 10:37
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So all of our fosters have found forever homes now. I'm happy for them, and I heard all the families were enthusiastic about their new darlings (my mom and sister were the ones involved in the handovers), but I'm gonna miss the little buttholes zooming around with no regard for humans coming through, climbing pants legs when we're getting their food ready, having to keep them from destroying curtains/lamps/cords, and my preferred way of "get out of there": a minute or so of aggressive snuggling. It's so quiet without them, and their mom keeps looking for them. I think I should nab some feliway because momma cat seems to have started pulling out fur, too.
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Dec 13, 2016 06:28
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Booger Presley posted:If that doesn't work maybe give momma some extra scratches and hugs, then some extra play to refocus. She needs to cat again instead of mom. I need to find a laser to try playing with her with. We've got a da bird or similar type toy, and the kittens loved the gently caress outta it, including dragging the whole thing along when we weren't actively playing with them with it, but momma just kinda looked at it like "what the hell is this thing?" I know she's got some kind of prey drive because she survived until my sister started feeding her.
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Dec 13, 2016 11:20
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We're starting to suspect we're gonna be on to Fostering: Round 2. We didn't get Momma Cat and the kittens indoors until the kittens were about two weeks old. Now that they're been sent to their forever homes...Momma Cat is looking awfully fat and we suspect she may have gotten pregnant before we got her in the house...It's been about long enough for her to be near birth if so. I'll try to get pictures. She also has a habit of trying to go outside whenever she hears the front door or somebody getting ready to leave.
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Dec 19, 2016 03:10
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"Ah,
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Dec 28, 2016 02:16
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I didn't get a picture, and haven't seen it again, but there has been a catpile with Gonzo and Momma Cat (we really need to give her a new name, my niece has stubbornly taken to calling her Sugar Sprinkles though). As soon as I said something, though, Momma Cat hopped down to request to be let back in the house. Also, since she loves nibbling on you and bunny kicking your arm as her play mode, I should get a discount valentines day stuffed animal for her to play with like that, so it won't matter if she tears it up. She has gotten better at realizing she's gotta be gentle on us humans, at least. And I really should figure out how to clip her nails, since her extra dewclaw doesn't really get worn down like the others and tends to get her hooked up on door mats and such.
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Feb 17, 2017 00:34
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10/10, would snuggle that catte.
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Feb 26, 2017 03:45
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Boogalo posted:Milly has been here 6 months now but I'll always spam pictures on demand. I would accuse you of stealing my catte, but Milly is a short hair, while Momma Cat (or Sugar Sprinkles if you ask my niece what her name is) is a medium hair. 
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Mar 15, 2017 09:47
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Chili posted:Been too long. "Oh my god, what is that human doing to his butt?" (Couldn't resist making a  joke, sorry.)
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Apr 16, 2017 21:14
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If you currently don't have enough kitties in your life, Tiny Kittens is currently livestreaming three feral pregnant mamas that have been brought in and are all due to give birth in the next week or two. All the kittens will be fixed before adoption, and the moms as well before they're either adopted (if they can be successfully socialized) or returned to their colony. They do a lot of good work with TNR and adoptions, so I thought I'd share.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:15
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I. M. Gei posted:Kitten is picked up and hopefully on her way to a good foster life. It sucks if kittom has defects that end up being incompatible with life, but that's the way things happen sometimes. It's certainly happened enough times on the TinyKittens youtube feed, and another reason for people to spay and neuter their dang cats -- so there aren't more and more and more unwanted kittens dying because they got the short end of the genetic stick.
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Mar 28, 2019 05:50
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The folks over at Tiny Kittens will keep the fosters in a room that doesn't have any extra places to hide besides the designated nest, which is an Ikea cabinet with a hole cut in the side for mama to get in and out freely. Then, for weighing, you just open up the doors. Also makes changing out the dirty blankets easy.
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Jun 28, 2020 06:57
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Booger Presley posted:Man I'm in cat limbo At the very least, see if you can TNR them so that they aren't making more cats?
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Jun 21, 2021 23:53
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