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I feel like I'm at a constant battle with these two. So, from Day One Francis has had litterbox issues. Since he spent the first 12 weeks of his life under a house I wasn't too surprised that he and his sister(RB) had some litter box issues. I used the tricks of the trade and his sister started...

I ventured out this morning with some friends to hike around the coast down in her area (a bit south of me). It was a beautiful fall day in So Cal. Too my surprise one of the first things we came across was a managed feral colony. One of the caretakers was there with a truck full of food. The...

Ok, new question for thoughts on posting my boys up for adoption. I adopted the two cute little guys out, now come the toughies. James - Seemed fine until he got nuetered and became suddenly very dizzy. He has recovered but he has NEVER FULLY recovered. He runs and plays, but if you play with...

Ok, I thought of posting this in the world's worst exterminators thread, but I felt it deserved it's own post. I was laying in bed when I noticed the cats batting at something in the hallway. I figured they were just trying to smack one of the annoying little kittens on the head. BUT NO...

I'm getting ready to list my tabby boys and put them up for adoption. One of the woman I am fostering with advised me to list them as Bengal mixes to get a lot of hits. Now here is my problem, there isn't an ounce of bengal in these kittens. They are very much Classic Brown Tabbies and they...

Jane's plight has been well recorded here. Jane sweetie, I'm sorry the world failed you twice. First by leaving you to be born under a house, and then by causing the trouble that ultimately lead to your death. But that's not what I want to think about now. Even though as a foster your...

I'm mourning the passing of my little black foster kitten and of course the first thing I want to do is go adopt a black kitten. Since neither my bf nor my permanent kitties much approve that idea, can I see pictures of yours?

I know I had this thread not too long ago about my Foster James, and in it I mentioned Jane's problems. Well, it's almost a week later and Jane still isn't doing very well. She did well for a day, and then crashed again. She's been in the hospital for the past three days and the vet has VERY...

One of my neighbors stopped by and gave me some organic kitty treats she'd baked! She said she baked some to get one of her cats to eat it's pills, and since she made so many gave some to me and the other woman in this building with cats. She said my kitties were her friends since they always...

I got really used to the shelter taking care of it for me, but I disliked some of their methods so I became a sort of 'free-lance' foster. Right now I'm showing them with another rescue group in a nice area of town, but apparently they usually only adopt one cat/kitten out a week. I'd like to...

... I'm seriously beginning to think there is a good reason for the Crazy Cat Lady stereotype. I stopped fostering for my shelter (although I still volunteer) for a variety of reasons, and hesitently (because I am Very Picky) volunteered to foster for one of the million local rescue groups...

We took in all four of my foster kittens to get nuetered on Weds. Three of them are doing great, unfortunately James is doing very, very poorly. The place he was nuetered at said they've only seen such a bad reaction once before and he may have kidney or liver disease. Don't worry, I already...

My BF's mom sent us the first two seasons on DVD and we ate it up, and I believe it is playing on PBS. I think it is just fascinating to see WWII from the British standpoint. But I also really love all the characters. Since my other favorite show of the year is Veronica Mars (also a detective...

They're gonna process them, and after they've all been checked out they'll be distributed amungst various other Animal Rescue groups. I'm going to go help with the intake! Should be pretty exciting! I'm just glad I get to help out in some way. Here's a link to the info...

These are my latest fosters, they came from under a house in one of the many 'small' cities eaten by Los Angeles. First up is James, he is the one enjoying people the least, but in probably the best shape. I'm working on him, he's now gone from always-hissing-at-me to...

So, I've got these feral kittens who were in fairly bad shape when I got them. The worst of them has a very bloated belly and skinny limbs. After almost 3 weeks they are definately looking better (although still not GOOD per se), I am wondering what their weight should be like? I know younger...

I think about the High-Kill situation in my area a lot and spend a lot of time researching it. My hope is to someday be in enough of a position of power to *do* something about it. Meanwhile though, I found this and it made me want to shout YES! Because so much of it would address the problems...

.. you're talking to someone who you are socially friendly (like through work or something, not really friends) and suddenly they say something about their pets that makes you just flinch? I liked this woman enough to go chat with her at business BBQ type things. As I chatted with her she asks...

Lately I've been toying with the idea of making a foster page that looked more like a cattery website than the standard rescue websites. It's not much more than a half-formed idea. Obviously the "Stud" and "Queen" section would have to be a bit different. But I was wondering if people would...

So I'm dealing with my first bunch of 3 'older' feral kittens. I got them about 1 1/2 weeks ago, they are about 8 weeks old and came from a colony that is all in pretty bad shape. The best looking one of the bunch won't stop hissing at me, and when not hiding they seem to want to sleep all the...