Cats and Kittens

[Valka D'Ur]

Kittens Mouse and Easy live out on my second floor balcony, but they get lonely. Yesterday I let them in, but then went downstairs to check with the girls to make sure I wasn't interfering with their pooping time [which I did once before with messy consequences ]. They gave me the okay, but stated the kittens don't know how to come down stairs. I replied that I'd coaxed Mouse part-way down but that timid Easy was stuck at the top. About then, Mouse scooted up behind me and while we were still agog at that, here came Easy.

Kittens living outside are at risk of being scooped up for a bird of prey's dinner. The ones that eat small mammals won't care that they're your pets. They just see food, so they grab it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Thanks for the warning, but I've never seen a bird that big over land, sometime way out to sea hunting fish, but that's about it.

That's good for you, but in a lot of instances the things I say about cat/kitten care can apply universally, no matter where folks live.

Blame David Attenborough. I saw one of his documentaries that showed just how ferocious some birds of prey are when they see small mammals and immediate snatch them for food.

 

[emzie]

Waiting room for the vet during covid.

 

[Zkribbler]

My bad back doesn't allow me to sit at my dining room table for more than 15 minutes. I therefore take my meals in my easy chair while watching T.V.

Mouse is the first one of my kittens to discover this. He has taken to bounding onto my lap, sure that this time I will finally share with him.
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The cats have been inside because of the rain. They been zipping after each other as if they're WWI fighters.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Valka D'Ur Pictures of Maddy?

 

[thetrooper]

Yes, please. Pictures of Maddy.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Patience, please, folks...

 

[thetrooper]

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

 

[Zkribbler]

I have two pairs of sliding doors which lead out to my seaside balcony. They are the keys to keeping my house cool by letting the sea breezes through their screen doors. Steel screens rust, and so I use fiber screens. No rust, but their drawback is the fiber can easily be detached from their frames.

Mouse, impetuous kitten that he is, cannonballed through the bottom part of one of theses screen, turning it into a cat door. Right now is the final stretch of my post-Xmas monetary nadir. Come early next month, an influx of cash will allow me to have the damage fixed.

Also "getting fixed" will be Mouse and Easy. Our local vet doesn't have the skills to do it, and so we must haul the kittens to the vet in Tag.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Have they climbed those screens yet?

 

[Zkribbler]

No. I'm surprised. They're more than willing to climb the trees outside. My best guess is the fiber screens are too wiggly.

 

[emzie]

Waiting room for the vet during covid.

Spoiler :

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That was very nearly the last picture I'd ever take of her. By Monday night she was in the ICU and the vet was stearing the conversation to euthanasia.

Fast forward to tonight, we're trying to learn how to use a feeding tube over the phone, because covid rules prevented them from showing us in person. Not gonna lie, this is absolutely frightening.

Her ears are twitching while I sit next to her typing this. She's dreaming.

Her prognosis is good, but the vet says, "its up to her" which just feels so god damn powerless. Her care needs aren't going to be any harder than when she was a bottle-fed kitten, and her chances are better now than then. But I feel the same. Just scared, but gonna keep at what can be done.

Setting my alarm for 4 hours....

 

[shadowplay]

omg poor kittie

 

[Zkribbler]

omg poor kittie

 

[Cutlass]

 

[Zkribbler]

Ma'am Theresa was my business manager, overseeing the construction on my house while I was still in the us. Today she bumped into my driver. She sends word that, if I want more kittens, she has plenty--all different colors.

 

[Zardnaar]

My humans lied to me.

Abduction and dragged off to the v e t.

 

[sendos]

My humans lied to me.
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Abduction and dragged off to the v e t.

Your cat very closely resembles my cat in almost every detail.

 

[Zardnaar]

Your cat very closely resembles my cat in almost every detail.

Common as dirt that colour combo.

 

[Zardnaar]

My humans are going camping.

Zard's promised to feed me and spend time with me.