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I'm waiting for my vet to call me back about this issue but I thought I'd ask here too in the meantime. I have a 4-months old Siamese kitten that I'm fostering. He has just recovered form a URI that he had for several weeks. Other than that he's been fine. Last night he was laying in the...

Luckily I have never seen or dealt with anaphylactic shock and I hope I never will. But I do vaccinate my own cats and my fosters myself so just in case it would happen I bought a bottle of epinephrine which is what I have read is used to treat anaphylactic shock and it was sold for that. The...

Hi, I have an 8-week old foster kitten who has suffered frostbite to both rear paws and the tip of her tail. The paws are not in very good shape. They have been very swollen but the swelling has gone down for the most part. Now the skin on her paws has become very hard and it's breaking and...

I just ordered a bunch of medical supplies for the kitties and threw in a Cat Dancer just because it was cheap. I've seen them in the pet store before but I never thought that they looked like any fun but, boy, was I wrong. My cats love it! A lot. Even the adults that usually don't play much was...

I have a dilemma and I need someone else's input on it. I run a small cat rescue and I currently have several kittens up for adoption. I have a litter that is about 4 months old and I haven't had much interest in any of them at all. A couple of days ago I got an email inquireing about one of...

While I'm at it, asking questions, I thought I'd ask y'all about what I think is one of the hardest things about adopting out pets - turning adopters down. It's necessary to do but I'm very bad at it. I think it's especially hard when I've been emailing them back and forth and they apparently...

I could really use some tips and advice from the experienced rescuers around here. I've done cat and dog rescue for quite a few years now both on my own and for others but this year I finally took the leap to start my own rescue to have a way to help the many, many street cats around here that...

I know that in general a kitten should be allowed to eat as much as she wants but I like to get some input on this particular kitten who eats like it's going out of style. Delilah is almost 4 months old and very tiny, barely 2 pounds. Her two brothers are also small for their age but not as...

A very sweet petite little black girl named Sheba has been staying on my porch lately. I've been feeding her since this summer down the street but a little over a week ago she showed up here and just stayed. Yesterday she was nowhere to be found though. I didn't see her all day and her food...

I could really use some tips on keeping the water I set out for the strays from freezing now that it's getting cold. I can't afford to get electric bowls you can buy for all the places I feed at so I'm hoping someone has some suggestions for something home made that I could use. How do you guys...

I have a question about one of my foster kittens. She's 3.5 months old but is small for her age (the vet says that there is nothing wrong with her though) so in an attempt to make sure she got sufficient nutrition I kept giving her a nightly bottle much longer than she should have been getting...

Hi, I care for a number of homeless cats in three different locations in my neighborhood. Some are tame some are not. One place that I feed at is about a block from my house around the corner. There are five cats that eat there regularly. Among those is a mom cat and her five months old kitten...

The rescue I foster for got a call yesterday from a woman who had found three very young kittens in her yard and the mom had not been seen in a day. I'm not sure how old they are but the lady first saw them on Tuesday, with the mom then. I suspect that they were born on Monday or Tuesday. It's...

Hi, I'm fostering a mom cat with a litter. The litter was born last Monday so they are now 11 days old. There are four kittens. They are all seemingly healthy and happy but I'm just a little concerned because they are so big. It's probably perfectly okay for them to be big but I wanted to ask...

Hi, I picked up four 2-week old kittens from a tow yard where some people had found them a day and a half ago. I'm bottle feeding them and they are eating and peeing just fine but I still haven't got them to poop and I'm getting worried. These are my very first bottle babies so I'm not quite...

WARNING, this is a bit graphic. Hi, My cat, a stray I took in a few months ago, has come down with a diarrhea the last few days. Today it has turned really bad and his stool is liquid and sometimes containing mainly mucus and blood. He has also vomited, once he vomited food. In one puddle I...