Orphaned, sick stray kitten help, please!

[Margot Lane]

Thank you for the updates! Can’t wait for future ones (with photos!).

 

[jstie]

Oh, boy, do I have an update (aside, of course, from Little Fox blossoming into the handsomest, funniest, most loving, personable cat that ever walked the earth)! Recently, The Guardian newspaper (a British paper) asked readers to send in the cutest photo they ever took, in connection with coverage of a big exhibition in London on "Cuteness." Of course I sent one in, taken three weeks after that "orphaned, sick, stray kitten" came into our lives. And guess who appeared in the Guardian on January 25 last week! Plus here is what he looks like today... Every day, we smile at how lucky we were to be in that campground that day when he needed us so desperately, and for all the cheerleading and good advice I got from people on this group! Little Fox thanks you all!

 

[Furballsmom]

What a fabulous update !

 

[fionasmom]

That is amazing! He looks as if he has no memory of the campground anymore.

 

[IndyJones]

Would anyone like to weigh in on what Fox's color would be called, based on the photos I've posted above? Definitely a mackerel tabby, but I'm think he would be a blue mackerel tabby, with a cream-colored undercoat (especially visible on his face).

Dilute blue tabby. The dilute gene changes the colour black to blue and the colour red to cream.

Indy has the same markings but is a classic or bullseye tabby

 

[Margot Lane]

Oh, boy, do I have an update (aside, of course, from Little Fox blossoming into the handsomest, funniest, most loving, personable cat that ever walked the earth)! Recently, The Guardian newspaper (a British paper) asked readers to send in the cutest photo they ever took, in connection with coverage of a big exhibition in London on "Cuteness." Of course I sent one in, taken three weeks after that "orphaned, sick, stray kitten" came into our lives. And guess who appeared in the Guardian on January 25 last week! Plus here is what he looks like today... Every day, we smile at how lucky we were to be in that campground that day when he needed us so desperately, and for all the cheerleading and good advice I got from people on this group! Little Fox thanks you all!

Just wondering if you read the latest installment on cats in The Guardian: “The pet I’ll never forget: Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me.” It moved me to tears, not only due to the kindness of the author, but how maternal the mother was: as soon as she found a good owner, she brought the kittens over, one by one, climbing a high stone wall! Plonk! Here are your kittens! How mom cat knows who the “good” people are just by instinct fascinates me.

 

[jstie]

Just wondering if you read the latest installment on cats in The Guardian: “The pet I’ll never forget: Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me.” It moved me to tears, not only due to the kindness of the author, but how maternal the mother was: as soon as she found a good owner, she brought the kittens over, one by one, climbing a high stone wall! Plonk! Here are your kittens! How mom cat knows who the “good” people are just by instinct fascinates me.

I did see that! It was deeply touching, but also so sad that he never knew what happened to Babyleaf. That would kill me. My husband is worse than I am… once they’re in the door, they stay forever. I can’t imagine our household without our Little Fox! As a further update, I just today got the framing done on a colored pencil portrait of LFox by a Kansas artist I know. I hung it above his favorite napping spot on the top of the cat tree…

 

[fionasmom]

once they’re in the door, they stay forever.

Me, too.

 

[jstie]

Me, too.

We live in a rural area, and several of our cats have been feral/semi-feral foundlings/orphans/strays who just turned up one day. A couple days ago I was going out to my car in the driveway and there was a brown tabby-ish cat by the fence. My first thought was - oh, no, Little Fox got out! But no, wrong color…oh, great, another one we’ll end up with…The cat and I stared at each other. This was no kitten, but a big adult. And then it twitched its tail…a little short tail…! I was being stared down by a wild bobcat in my driveway! Maybe half a minute, and it turned and sauntered off behind the barn. It was the most exquisitely beautiful animal, and oh, what a thrill and an honor to host one! Luckily, our cats are all house cats and we don’t have chickens and such, so it’s so welcome to all the mice and gophers it wants on our property! And we don’t have to look after it…. :-)

 

[fionasmom]

We live in a rural area, and several of our cats have been feral/semi-feral foundlings/orphans/strays who just turned up one day

It is the same here in a definitely non-rural area. So many cats need help everywhere.

And we don’t have to look after it…. :-)

I also have wildlife around and feel the same sense of relief when I realize that I don't have to adopt another one. We are all on high alert for foundlings and I once had to stop a young man from trying to rescue an adolescent coyote who was perfectly fine on its own.