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Hi, all.
I just got home from my local shelter. Due to a terrific snow storm, it took me over an hour to travel what normally takes less than fifteen minutes. *whew*
While I'm stuck in traffic, I took a peek in my carrier to say hello to my foster kitties, who have spent the last four days at the shelter. Well, guess what - in their hurry to get me out of there, the shelter gave me two strange kitties along with two of my four fosters!
That would be understandable, could even be amusing, but it turns out the two new kittens haven't been tested or treated for ANYTHING. And they just spent the last hour in extremely close confines with my Heather and Sarah!
I am soooo freaking upset, I can't stand it.
Of course, it gets better. With the ongoing storm, the shelter has closed and the kittens now have to spend the night with me. But there's not a single room in my house that I could possibly isolate them in.
Please help me out! Tell me my two kittens are going to be ok. And, please, which is better for the new kittens - to spend the night in the unheated but sheltered outside hallway, or in the laundry room which is warmed but also contains gas heaters (which is, incidentally, why it's warm). The room has a window, a washer, two dryers, the water heater and the forced hot air heater, and is a little bigger than 7.5 by 10 feet.
Currently, I have them in the doorway between the laundry room and the outside hallway, kind of a half-and-half deal. I took the door off the little carrier and put it inside a big dog carrier so they have someplace to cuddle as well as room for a little litter box.
Man, oh, man, I never anticipated all the anxiety that I've encountered in rescueing and fostering this litter.
I just got home from my local shelter. Due to a terrific snow storm, it took me over an hour to travel what normally takes less than fifteen minutes. *whew*
While I'm stuck in traffic, I took a peek in my carrier to say hello to my foster kitties, who have spent the last four days at the shelter. Well, guess what - in their hurry to get me out of there, the shelter gave me two strange kitties along with two of my four fosters!
That would be understandable, could even be amusing, but it turns out the two new kittens haven't been tested or treated for ANYTHING. And they just spent the last hour in extremely close confines with my Heather and Sarah!
I am soooo freaking upset, I can't stand it.
Of course, it gets better. With the ongoing storm, the shelter has closed and the kittens now have to spend the night with me. But there's not a single room in my house that I could possibly isolate them in.
Please help me out! Tell me my two kittens are going to be ok. And, please, which is better for the new kittens - to spend the night in the unheated but sheltered outside hallway, or in the laundry room which is warmed but also contains gas heaters (which is, incidentally, why it's warm). The room has a window, a washer, two dryers, the water heater and the forced hot air heater, and is a little bigger than 7.5 by 10 feet.
Currently, I have them in the doorway between the laundry room and the outside hallway, kind of a half-and-half deal. I took the door off the little carrier and put it inside a big dog carrier so they have someplace to cuddle as well as room for a little litter box.
Man, oh, man, I never anticipated all the anxiety that I've encountered in rescueing and fostering this litter.