I have found this site very helpful when looking for information on kitty-related stuff. So thank you. My guys appreciate all your help.
I have a long history with cats, having grown up with them and owning many of my own over the years. I have fostered many tiny orphan kittens and bottle fed more than I can count. I've known success and also heartbreak. It's so hard when you lose one. I've also been the caretaker for an established colony that was TNRed and have found more stray kittens and cats than I want to count. My kids were also bringing home strays they found. Both are adults with their own cats now.
I have a good and patient husband who, although not a cat person at first, has yielded to the charms of the many cats that have passed through our lives. He's installed cat fence, built shelters and helped with TNR operations.
At present we have seven adult cats. Most are 12 and older. The oldest cat we ever owned was believed to be about 23 when she crossed the rainbow bridge. She had been a parking lot cat for years at a place where I worked. I brought her home and she lived her final years as a beloved indoor cat with all of the food and soft beds she could ever want.
My current batch include brothers Mr. Peabody and Sherman. They came from a household with a ton of cats, none of which were neutered or spayed or ever taken to the vet. Jimmy (named by a friend who picked him up and declared he "looks like a Jimmy to me"), Pretzel and Itty-Bitty are the others in the front of the house. We have two FIV Positive cats who live in a separate part of the house (Stanley and Mel). I have to separate them from my other cats because Stanley fights and sprays with everyone except Mel.
At the moment I have six feral kittens I am socializing and things are going pretty well. I'm not quite there with a couple of them, though. I've also been doing TNR on the cats who camp out in our very large and wooded backyard. My goal is to have all of the kitties that we feed neutered and spayed to put a stop to homeless mama cats having baby after baby. That's going well and I hope to have all of them taken care of before the end of the year, unless a new one pops up unexpectedly.
Sorry for the long introduction. I have been reading and enjoying this forum for a while and am looking forward to all of the good advice when I have a problem or need a solution, which is often.
Thanks for having me!
I have a long history with cats, having grown up with them and owning many of my own over the years. I have fostered many tiny orphan kittens and bottle fed more than I can count. I've known success and also heartbreak. It's so hard when you lose one. I've also been the caretaker for an established colony that was TNRed and have found more stray kittens and cats than I want to count. My kids were also bringing home strays they found. Both are adults with their own cats now.
I have a good and patient husband who, although not a cat person at first, has yielded to the charms of the many cats that have passed through our lives. He's installed cat fence, built shelters and helped with TNR operations.
At present we have seven adult cats. Most are 12 and older. The oldest cat we ever owned was believed to be about 23 when she crossed the rainbow bridge. She had been a parking lot cat for years at a place where I worked. I brought her home and she lived her final years as a beloved indoor cat with all of the food and soft beds she could ever want.
My current batch include brothers Mr. Peabody and Sherman. They came from a household with a ton of cats, none of which were neutered or spayed or ever taken to the vet. Jimmy (named by a friend who picked him up and declared he "looks like a Jimmy to me"), Pretzel and Itty-Bitty are the others in the front of the house. We have two FIV Positive cats who live in a separate part of the house (Stanley and Mel). I have to separate them from my other cats because Stanley fights and sprays with everyone except Mel.
At the moment I have six feral kittens I am socializing and things are going pretty well. I'm not quite there with a couple of them, though. I've also been doing TNR on the cats who camp out in our very large and wooded backyard. My goal is to have all of the kitties that we feed neutered and spayed to put a stop to homeless mama cats having baby after baby. That's going well and I hope to have all of them taken care of before the end of the year, unless a new one pops up unexpectedly.
Sorry for the long introduction. I have been reading and enjoying this forum for a while and am looking forward to all of the good advice when I have a problem or need a solution, which is often.
Thanks for having me!
