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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    I was too! But, nope. Nothing. And the diarrhea continues! I spoke to the vet last Thursday, and she said that next I should try a prescription diet. So I went and spent money getting the Hills gastro-biome. Of course she won't touch the wet version, and only picks at the dry a small bit...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    I wanted to give a quick update on all of the mama and kitten drama! "Sister" cat (the mama) continued to have horrid diarrhea all last week. I did get an appt. with our vet and took her on Friday. $700 later...she's still having diarrhea. But we are hopefully somewhere further down the...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    I'm a firm believer that sometimes there is no other way to handle some of the trials with these cats than to laugh about it! I'm truly always amazed at how smart they are in ways that I wish they weren't...like realizing what a trap is without even testing it. I know I have a photo somewhere...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    It looks like at one point this was available online without a prescription, but all I could find now is the same med but for fish. Unfortunately our housecat’s vet isn’t going to approve anything as this feral mama isn’t under their care. And I’m not opposed to taking her for an exam...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    First off, thank you very much for pointing me towards the Advantage II. I got some the following day and think I did a decent application job on two very wiggly non-compliant kittens! Non-cat life has kept me busy the past couple of days so I haven’t had much time to post, so apologies for...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    Well the good news is that I was able to catch Mama and both kittens & they are safely indoors in kitten heaven—so many toys and tunnels and cat trees! But efforts to give them flea baths have been a disaster. They squirmed and clawed before I even got to try to suds them, more than once. Try...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    Definitely a good article. I would never have thought of using Vaseline to prevent the fleas from migrating up and really overtaking the kittens heads! I watched a couple of videos, including one by the Kitten Lady, and in each the kittens were fairly cooperative, if vocally unhappy. I suppose...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    You are right-typed without checking again! Thank you-I’m pulling it up to read now.
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    Ok looks like I can add pics now. Please excuse the cardboard box on the deck-the kittens were having fun playing with little balls, but they roll off the deck easily so I made a quick ball pit. The pic of Mama is to show a bit of the sore/bitten area around one of her ears. Likely bug bites...
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    Flea & Tick treatments for kittens?

    I have always received great advice from this forum, so here I go again! We are hoping to catch a mama and her two kittens over the next couple of nights. This will be my first time catching kittens straight from the outside. I was able to get some Frontline Plus on mama a couple of weeks...
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    Releasing feral in cold weather?

    We already have 9 rescued house cats, and can not take any more. She is friendly and content with me, but terrified when any other human walks in the room. She has been kept with the kittens in a section of our house that can have fully closed doors, and it’s a decent size but certainly not...
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    Releasing feral in cold weather?

    I have a feral cat that we brought into our house in early September when she surprised us by having a litter of kittens on our deck. We kept everyone safe and healthy and finally got mama and the 5 kittens speutered and vaccinated last week. Kittens will be adopted out, but mama will go back...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    It’s hard to believe the kittens are already 7 weeks old! They now have complete run of the room and have distinct, funny personalities. Mama Ember is hanging in there too. I will be very interested to see how she reacts after she is spayed and we release her back into the backyard. My...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    A little update—everyone is doing well. I did do the chamomile compresses on a couple of the kittens eyes, and then moved to an antibiotic ointment and everyone’s eyes seem much improved. We had to go out of town this weekend for family party and of course I was nervous, but mama Ember and our...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    Question about eyes—most of the kittens are beginning to open their eyes. One kitten is not, and when I picked him up to get a better view, his closed eyes have a goopy crust. Is this a normal stage of the eye opening or signs of an infection? Should I try to gently put some warm water...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    lol no, they are all Nerf guns. The wall was made several years ago when he was really into them; now he’s more into his video games but whenever he has friends over they still get used, so we leave the wall up. Not that any of them ever put the guns back up…that ends up being me!
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    I have a couple of questions about when (ans how) I should reconfigure the space so that everyone has room to grow. Mama Ember and the kittens have been largely confined to a bathroom since the kittens were born. Mama Ember is almost certainly over the confinement. I have put a small cat...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    We have a gas fireplace that is both inside and outside-hard to explain, but the pics below shows the fireplace from inside our house (complete with some of our housecats). The other side of the fireplace is on our deck, which is covered in that spot, and where we have couches and the warmed...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    ha ha I’m guessing she will be happy to be returned unencumbered by kittens or a uterus to her outside life. I think she is tolerating her detention only bc of the babies. When we had her sibs inside pre & post surgeries they were tolerant but not happy. We joke that our cul de sac is feral...
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    Feral gave birth and we got them

    Thank you very much everyone! I’m relieved that nothing i posted raised any red flags and that everyone thinks they are moving in the right direction. I did weigh again yesterday evening and again just now, and everyone continues to gain. One kitten gained 9 grams in about 16 hours! The...
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