Recent Content by HoosierMama

After today I really appreciate my pet cats, four males!

I have no idea where he came up with that, but he was pretty adamant about it. BTW, right now they are all back on her, even the one she left for dead. I have my fingers crossed for a good morning. She did have a little diarrhea, but she is still eating!

Thank you, I really appreciate you listening to my drama. I will give you an update in the morning. Yes, nature can be cruel.

BTW, I have some KMR and a bottle and nipples on the way. It will be too dark in there for camera tonight.

I suspect she is a first time Mom and quite young. If I let her out of the crate she will not be back. I just looked in on her briefly and she had her back to me but I only saw one kitten and it was the one I suspect she is trying to cull. The others may have been nursing, hard to tell, and I...

It's pretty warm here outside temp is 86 and they are in a pole barn that has been heating up all day. What kind of ambient temp do they need?

We are actively searching for a foster now, I seriously don't think she will come around. I only looked in on her twice today before she moved to the corner and quit nursing. She hasn't been very open to letting them nurse since she had them. If we find a foster we will have her spayed and...

Yes, they are trying to get to her as she moves around the crate. I don't like to look in on them too much because it may be making matters worse. I am working with some others to try and find a nursing foster cat.

Is it possible they are too weak to cry?

I hope the hissing is good news but I just don't know. I am reaching out for help but no one is responding, go figure.

I have read many articles on line and find the whole process rather daunting and not really humanly possibly for four three day old kittens. The Mama cat hisses at me so bad right now I can't even get close to them without leather gloves. I think she has gone mad! She is sitting on her...

I can't even get near them, she is doing some serious hissing, spitting and growling at me now. I think she wants all of them to die. Right now I can't get a hold of anybody.

I put it out on Facebook looking for a foster mama cat. We'll see, I may have to start bottle feeding soon if any of them are going to make it, but I keep hoping she will have a change of heart and if I start handling all of them she will never come around, although I think she is a lost cause.

I feel overwhelmed and useless, four 2 day old kittens is a lot to handle by myself. I have put feelers out for help but no reply. Could someone tell me how to get the mama cat to nurse her babies?

I gave her more food and when I went back she had scarfed it down, but still won't let them nurse and growls at me if I get too close. I live in a very rural place and I am the treasurer for our county humane society. That's how I ended up trying to help with this cat from a hoarding case. We...