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I have two rescue kittens with feline herpes or calicivirus (the vet's informal diagnosis). They're both symptomatic, and I've been using supplements and trying to keep them stress-free. Anyway, I'm having some friends over to my house soon. They just adopted a rescue cat. Even though many/most...

The trick: she disappeared before my very eyes in the kitchen. I thought I was watching David Copperfield. The two monsters Cleo and Pixel were fighting over a ring pull tab in a corner of the kitchen: Suddenly Pixel (orange one) was getting smaller and smaller while Cleo kept trying to...

Seriously, Pixel managed to block the door just a few days after I adopted her and Cleo. I was thinking of calling the fire department or a neighbor with power tools to get them out. Here's the video. (I did finally get the door open, but it wasn't easy).

Good news, and bad news. Good news is the kittens tried their first raw chicken toes today, and they were a big hit. I cut off the nails and chopped up the toes pretty small (pinto bean size), but they still had to work to chew them. I thought the soft feet might help with their teething. I...

Not sure whether to continue famciclovir or not...Vet believes both kitties have feline herpes or calicivirus and says it's really common in rescues. The suspects: 1. Cleo, 6 months old, blind (enucleated). Vet says that her tear ducts were removed but remaining tissues can still weep. One...

I just adopted a blind kitten (Cleo) and her BFF Pixel. My intro to them is here. I noticed a couple of Cleo's cheek whiskers seemed almost trimmed when I got her from the rescue. I notice today a few more are "trimmed." (Obviously I would never trim a blind cat's whiskers.) I thought she...

I thought I would give you all an update on the two rescue kittens I just adopted. One is blind, and the other one is the "seeing-eye” kitten. I’ve had them for 2 weeks now and I know them a little better. Tired After Play by FirstRescue posted Aug 19, 2017 at 6:28 PM The sighted one is a...

I'm picking up my two bonded kittens from the rescue in a few days but think I want to change the name of the blind one. Currently, she's Flora. Her seeing-eye female buddy is Pixel (which is great, and since I'm a photographer, I took Pixel's name as a sign they were for me). Flora is a fine...

I often buy whole chickens and spatchcock them before roasting. This involves using kitchen shears to cut though the back ribs in order to remove the backbone. I was thinking of introducing my new kittens to a raw meat diet over time, and I wonder if I can eventually give them portions of the...

I will be adopting two bonded kittens from a local rescue shelter in a few days. This shelter reeks so powerfully of cat urine that I came away smelling of it myself, just from petting a few cats. My husband could smell the urine on my hair when I got home from the visit. It's that bad. So the...