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  1. Joelle and the kittens

    A word of warning for anyone who cooks meat...

    My partner was fostering a pair of older kittens a couple months ago, a tabby boy he named Murek and a tiny black goofball named Greta. Since they were HIGHLY interested whenever he cooked himself meat he got to be vigilant about monitoring the food and cleaning up as quickly and thoroughly as...
  2. Joelle and the kittens

    I met my "foster" cat's mom today

    This is a picture of my "foster"*, Tilly (on the bottom) with her adopted younger siblings: And this is her beautiful mother (and baby sister)! Does this mean she has pointed ancestry? Another sister also has pale eyes. Apparently the shelter only recently managed to trap them. Anyway...
  3. Joelle and the kittens

    Resources for a sweet, asymptomatic FELV+ shelter kitty?

    My local shelter has had Duffy for several months now hoping to get her adopted. It's wonderful that they are taking care of this cat when so many other shelters would euthanize, but my heart still breaks for her being stuck in a cage 24/7 with only sporadic attention. She is very friendly...
  4. Joelle and the kittens

    This one's a little different -- how would you describe these Bengal kittens' congenital hind limb deformities?

    My shelter rescued a pair of Bengal kittens from a backyard breeder a bit over a year ago (they've since been adopted, together <3). Both have hind limb deformities: Digit is missing both hind feet and Pi has 3-and-a-bit feet. We don't know if this was a genetic consequence of poor breeding or...
  5. Joelle and the kittens

    Preemptive coccidia treatment?

    Main questions: Where is a good place to get ponazuril for cheap online without a prescription? And would this even be the right decision for our situation? Our two kittens' longterm (1+ months) diarrhea issues were recently confirmed to be from coccidiosis. They're on day 5 of a 5-day sulfa...
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    My partial foster failure

    We've been volunteers at a great shelter since 2017, but according to our lease couldn't have pets (or so we thought). In early May 2021 we got a call from the shelter asking if we could be emergency temp fosters for a litter of 7-week-old feral kittens that needed medication twice a day -- we...
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    "Typical street cats" in Colombia

    The owner of the AirBnB we stayed at in Bogota had these two beautiful cats with pretty unusual coats (to me). They are not sisters; the owner said these markings were pretty standard around there so their similar appearance is just a coincidence. They look tortie/calico point, and one has more...
  8. Joelle and the kittens

    10-week old kittens with diarrhea

    I recently adopted two kittens that I had been fostering since 7 weeks (feral before that, now very socialized). Last ~Thursday I noticed they were both having diarrhea, although I don't know if it was every evacuation at that time. Now it seems they only poop diarrhea. Emergent signs...
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