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Long overdue update. When it had cooled off enough to allow for sleeping with the window open but not yet too chilly to do so, I was awakened by the same horrible sound that I had mistaken for the lethal attack on the gray kitten. It was already obvious that it was not as she turned up some...

Foo was very unhappy when we brought Mia home. Not long after, we were able to put both in the same travel cage. Foo is not always happy to have Mia around, but usually is not too upset either. She has already accepted Hoki. Mia is changing. She now stalks Hoki instead of trying to escape...

I think in his case, it was just not up to expectations. He already was familiar with my son’e room. The only new areas are the foyer and the staircase. Oh, and the upstairs hallway. He has since been in our bedroom too but prefers my son’s room.

With our plans to go camping this weekend and the next, I thought it best to allow Hoki to roam freely through t most of the house. We kept our bedroom door shut hoping Foo or Mia would not give up the secret of the cat door to him. My son was worried when he saw Hoki on the stairs. “Dad...

We have been through this before. Foo did not like having Mia around at all and Mia wanted nothing more than to be with her. Mia too was a rescued kitten. She and her siblings were rescued by a colleague of my wife’s who was suddenly transferred. (Well, not actually him, but it is a long...

Major update. A week ago we brought Hoki in to be tested for FIV and one other virus. Thankfully, he has neither! The vet we saw this time said we could let him mingle with our other cats. As this differed from what another vet at the same clinic told us earlier, I asked about his fungal...

An adventure that we are not putting him, nor us, through again! Now we are just hoping that the fungus is taken care of on the visit to the vet on Sept. tenth and that his FIV test comes back negative. If so, then he can finally be relaxed from his cage…and we do not have to wash our hands...

Hoki goes camping! Yep. You read that right. We took Hoki camping with us. One of the few things we have been able to do during the current panic is go camping, though even this activity has often been cancelled, sometimes at the last minute. We do not like having to cancel from our end...

Yesterday, my wife sent a video of Hoki mewing, with sound to the person who adopted the other kittens. Kuno and Hano got very excited and started looking around for and calling out for their brother. Funny yet a bit sad too. Hoki’s skin problems are, at least were, the least of his...

Hoki Of the four kittens, the white kitten was the only one that would stop and look at me instead of making a mad dash for safety whenever one of the other three saw me. Even when seen through the window and they in the neighbor’s yard, separated by the wall of the house and the fence between...

Yes, we have received several updates already and she said should would send photos. I do want to see how they look all grown up. The gloves worked great the one time I was able to use them. Just knowing my arms are protected was an immensely important factor. Don’t really need them now that...

MANGE? A long road ahead. The past week has been yet another roller coaster, though the low points no where near as low as the have been. The night of my wife’s friends who were interested in the cats visit, my son’s temperature shot up. He ended up missing his last two days of the semester...

Wild, or in our case, semi wild animals are smart. They have to be. Still, it would be something to see them do it. This reminds me. There is an animal program on TV that features cats getting into food drawers, closets, escaping etc. The TV crew set up multiple cameras to catch the action...

We have a winner! Around the cage we can some of the stuff they knocked down during their hours of freedom. We put heavy bags of cat food in front of the drawer and that has worked.

How do we do this?