I'll try making this tent for her in the next day or two, and see if she'll accept it as an alternative to hiding under the sheet. And see about trying music, see if it makes any difference.
I've tried leaving the sling in the room for her. While she's in it, her siblings and mama are good about not bothering her, just sniffing her occasionally, sometimes gently grooming her. Once she's out of it though, they attack it like any other toy. And I've noticed if the other kittens have...
I haven't tried the twisted sticks. I did try a hair fork, and it was very nice....until it cracked after something like six months of daily use. But given my hair, I honestly don't blame the fork at all. If you're more careful than I was about not stressing the joint, it should be fine. I've...
She really doesn't seem to be food motivated at all. I can try music, but given that noise often startles her, I'm not really sure of how likely sound is to calm her, but I can try. She doesn't appear to be in any pain, she pretty much always relaxes if she's covered/wrapped/held securely. She...
I vote hair sticks too. They have a learning curve, but the styles that use your own hair to secure it tend to stay up well with sticks. hair sticks, straight, twisted, crescent moon, U by HairSticksNMore has some great sticks, they're gorgeous and practical, and I've dropped mine and not had...
My kitten Cloud is very, very timid. She spends most of her time hiding, and has been a hideaway cat her entire life, as far as I can tell. She hides under furniture, in boxes, and now that she's figured out how, under the fitted sheet on the bed. If she's not eating or using the litterbox...
My garden is started! I now have broccoli, kale, swiss chard, spinach, sugar snap peas, stevia, chocolate mint, peppermint....and white cabbage butterflies. >.<
I'm working on making a sort of mini-greenhouse with netting walls and ceiling, and in the meantime I'm doing daily search and...
Breakthrough! Breakthrough has been made! My hand is so tired, but it was so worth it!! Molly decided to be jealous and lay on me, and because she's a cuddle bug with an easy purr motor, it took about five seconds to have her purring. This caught Mackerel's attention. I rubbed my hand all over...
The problem with cats being only semi-domesticated is that you either have to get them really, really young to start socializing them, or run the risk of them never fully taming. I'd been working on getting this litter tame-ish before actually catching them, but even with exposure to people and...
Haha! Got a few fingers on her. Through the wire, I just rested them a bit over her freshly filled food bowl, and she shoved her head right under them and ignored me. Now if she'll let me do that with the kennel door open, I'll be almost back to where I was with her before her vaccines!
Purrito the kitten seems to like them, judging by the way he grabs your hand and keeps it there. Of course, he also gets nibbly soon after, so it might just be a slow hand trap. Mia the mama cat adores belly rubs and will wiggle on her back after you if you try to move your hand. Haven't tested...
She...seems to be calmer? She's sniffing me when fingers are offered, sleeping with her back to me, yawning, grooming, playing with her mouse....just generally cat-ing more. She's also not hissing when I get up and lay back down, unless something else has spooked her, and she's not making the...
Over 24 hours camped out next to her (excepting bathroom and food breaks) and she's starting to sniff my fingers when I hook them around the cage wire and stay still for a while. And bat at my nest through the wire, so long as I'm not looking. When I look, she hisses and hides. I switched from...
Thanks for the advice so far! I'll talk to the vet when I take her in for her fix appointment, that's a good idea. Part of the reason I'm trying separating her is that she hasn't responded to increased time spent with her in the kitten room these past two weeks since her vaccines. I've spent...
Back in May, I found a stray cat with a litter of maybe 4 week old kittens under my back porch. Mama cat, now named Mia, has tamed right down and is now a complete cuddle bug. She's also fixed and vaccinated, and I'll be keeping her.
She and her five kittens were all captured and moved into the...
Went to the nursery nearby, and their response was basically "Yeah, well...You COULD try planting your cold season garden now, but most of it will bolt. Wait a month or so for the heat to break if you're just starting." And seeing as I'm greener than most of their plants, I'll go ahead and...
Yeah, my meyer lemon tree is only about six feet tall and fairly...bush-like, and produces well over a thousand lemons each winter. My neighbor has mandarins, oranges, and grapefruit, which hang over our shared fence and I'm welcome to harvest. I generally get all the citrus I can handle.
I'm...
I've wanted to have a crop garden for ages, but never got around to it. I've also been kicking around the idea that it would be interesting to create a garden that could, in theory, provide all the food and nutrients that a person could need. There are a thousand opinions out there, but I...
We had a longhair, Simon, once who we shaved regularly. We got him from friends who didn't really "own" him, they'd just started feeding the friendly stray so he'd stop eating their koi. They'd asked around, and consensus was he'd belonged to a family who moved and left him, so friend mentioned...
Molly gets clingier than normal. Abandoned mama cat, now named Mia, generally is headed straight to me the moment she hears the doorknob. The kittens usually welcome me back from even short times away by hissing...then coming towards me and sitting expectantly near the food bowls. ;)