Kitten thread if not minded? A bit of an UPDATE.

[Rustyt1953]

 

[walkin jack]

Fantastic pics Rusty. Multi likes if only it were possible...

 

[walkin jack]

Hey Carl (couldn't get my quote thingy to work) Just wanted to give you a heads up. Cats are lactose intolerant. You can by CAT MILK at HEB or pet stores. That will spare you having to clean up some messy poo.

Also raw egg is very hard to digest. If you try cooking it or anything else for a kitten don't put any salt or pepper or any other spice on it.

Kitten tummies are very sensitive. Whey you get your new kitten his/her whole world will change and you should start out feeding it the same thing it is used to now. If you want to change it's food do it gradually and wait a bit before you start. Let your new pal have a chance to take in all the changes slowly to minimize the stress.

We definitely want to see some pics...

 

[KateB76]

I'll join in the fun! This is my first attempt to post pictures so here goes.
Here are some pictures of my crew:

Mollie (front) and Mittens.



Mittens loved to play with water when she was young.



Mollie and Mocha, who sadly is no longer with us.



Layla, as a kitten



...and more recently



Currently Mollie, Mittens and Layla live with us. We also take care of two cats who live outside the office. I don't have any pictures of them.
It has been awhile since I posted on the forums. Love this thread!

 

[walkin jack]

Good lookin' kitties there Kate. We have 3 inside and a family of 6 ferals that stay on our deck. Mom, Dad, and a 4 month old litter of 4. Yes we have and love a lot of cats. To better understand check my sig line.

 

[wundudnee]

This was my cat Fritz. I found him at the bottom of a post hole, arms length down. He was not quite a handful. I think his fleas weighed more than he did.

Here he is resting on the couch with his friend MuttLee.

He did turn into a really intellectual cat. They are both gone now.

This is Ozzie, our 19#, $1,400.00 cat. He had kidney stones and is now on KD Science diet. 8 1/2#s for $51.00. He's not to intellectual, but makes up for it with ornery.

 

[Rustyt1953]

One more:

 

[6518John]

I am starting to think we need to petition the Big Gorillia for a Cat/Kitten sub-forum! Gorillia's love kittens too!

Famous Gorilla Got Some New Friends - 12 Pictures - Animal's Look

 

[Mack_C85]

This was my cat Fritz. I found him at the bottom of a post hole, arms length down. He was not quite a handful. I think his fleas weighed more than he did.

Here he is resting on the couch with his friend MuttLee.

He did turn into a really intellectual cat. They are both gone now.

This is Ozzie, our 19#, $1,400.00 cat. He had kidney stones and is now on KD Science diet. 8 1/2#s for $51.00. He's not to intellectual, but makes up for it with ornery.

Wundudnee......add a zero and meet our late buddy Ginger. Developed a heart condition at 10. A little over $100 per month in meds, and about 4-5 trips to the emergency vets over his last 18 months. He was the wife's last living part of her late mother, so........

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[KateB76]

Good lookin' kitties there Kate. We have 3 inside and a family of 6 ferals that stay on our deck. Mom, Dad, and a 4 month old litter of 4. Yes we have and love a lot of cats. To better understand check my sig line.

The outdoor cats are not feral; they are extremely friendly. When they showed up several years ago we thought they were probably left behind when their owners moved.

 

[snubbyfan]

Lately we've been stuff from chewy.com
Takes just a coupla days before the stuff we ordered lands on our front porch.

 

[6string]

I was out for a run one night, after an evening of rain had finally ended. Going past a treeline along the local college, I heard some "meowing". It was a tiny kitten.
I went over to him and he made his way part way up a tree. He was crying and crying, and seemed to be avoiding me after calling out in distress. I considered leaving, but gave it one more try. I picked him out of the tree and he immediately started purring. It was a long night getting him cleaned up and fed. I stayed up with him most of the night and was waiting at the local vet's when they opened. He neededasome de-worming meds and a flea topical but was otherwise fine.
I cancelled my summer vacation plans and spent the summer getting him acclimated to my other two cats.

His name is "Niko"

 

[Salty RI]

These two Norwegian forest cats started off as little fluffy kittens, too. No pics of them at that stage, unfortunately They originally lived across the street but, being cats, they began to explore and soon discovered that my gf was, shall we say, "highly amenable" to cats.

After a while it became obvious that Izzie (rear of the pic) preferred Sandra's home to his own and was sadly surrendered. A year or so later, the original owners (aka "support staff" in cat parlance) decided to take a posting in Saudi Arabia, so Charlie also ended up with S.

They now weigh 26 & 24 lbs.

You should get them on that show for over weight pets.

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[oldman10mm]

I'll play,here's seven.

 

[the ringo kid]

Arjay you are 20 years behind. You need to adopt a bushel basket of kittens and get caught up!

All I can say on that one is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[the ringo kid]

I'll play, Ringo!

Newest first: This is Cooper, who we adopted from a rescue a few days after we lost our wolfdog, Kira. My daughter and I saw him over at PetSmart in Lafayette in the adoption center while waiting for the doctor to get there so we could put Kira down and end her suffering and I fell in love with him right away. My wife picked him up shortly after I left for the rig. This pic was taken shortly after he came home; he is now 6 months old and yes, he has grown into those ears.


Next Is a couple of pics of Sox, who wandered over to our house around 3 years ago as a kitten. He immediately decided that he would allow us to take him in and feed him and care for him. This first pic is when he was a kitten:


This next pic is about a year or so ago and he was with his dogs for this pic. They were great buddies. Kira the wolfdog is gone now and Reno the coondog has gone with his Mommy (my daughter) to Alabama, so it is strictly cats here now:


Next is Nee Nee. She wandered over here as a kitten right after Hurricane Rita had passed and she let us know that she was looking for a house to live at and we were chosen. We figure that she was someone's kitten that got lost from somebody fleeing the hurricane, because she obviously wasn't an outside only cat; no fleas or worms or anything like that. And we thought she was a male cat too and my daughter named her after a character in Star Trek Voyager (Neelix), but was changed to Nee Nee after she came up preggers.


This last pic has Nee Nee in it in the front and one of my all time big buddies, Pepper. He lived to 16 years old. We had to put him down about 2 years ago as he was wasting away and ready to go, poor fellow. Broke my heart to lose him too. I wish I had a better pic of Pepper handy, but I don't know where they are at right now.

First, I'm sorry for your loss, and grateful for your gain. I wonder if the kitty with the special ears has some sort of coon in him? I hope to never have to face the decision to think of having to put another cat (or dog) down again preferring the to pass away in their sleep.

 

[the ringo kid]

Great topic Kid!!!

Thank you sir-it's recharged my batteries quite a bit. It may sound insane but, a couple weeks ago-Thursday to be exact-I was driving home from work looking into the north-western part of the sky-saw a cat's head-shaped cloud-white with grey ears-just like-you-know-whos. I pulled over and got my tablet out wanting to take a picture-by the time I got it up and running-the cloud was so distorted and resembles an amoeba mass instead.

 

[the ringo kid]

Definitely better by the bushel. And when they get a bit older, you can herd 'em, too!

cowboys herding cats - YouTube

I wonder how they'd handle this?

Y'all probably knew I was going to do this.

 

[the ringo kid]

Hey Carl (couldn't get my quote thingy to work) Just wanted to give you a heads up. Cats are lactose intolerant. You can by CAT MILK at HEB or pet stores. That will spare you having to clean up some messy poo.

Also raw egg is very hard to digest. If you try cooking it or anything else for a kitten don't put any salt or pepper or any other spice on it.

Kitten tummies are very sensitive. Whey you get your new kitten his/her whole world will change and you should start out feeding it the same thing it is used to now. If you want to change it's food do it gradually and wait a bit before you start. Let your new pal have a chance to take in all the changes slowly to minimize the stress.

We definitely want to see some pics...

I hadn't thought of that but will ask Lisa what she's been feeding her. I just bought some kitten fancy feast last night and have some Hill's science Diet kitten food on order-which should be here by Tues.

Its funny because-we used to give cats some milk on saucers as well as raw egg-and I never noticed any troubles-but then that was well over 30 years ago when I was younger and dumber. Ill just save her tummy for the finer things in life-like bacon when she gets a bit older.

Ill keep pestering Lisa to post images of the Tiger-strip-and the pure white-who is now maybe 3 weeks old. Lisa is about to go on a cruise with her boyfriend to Cozumel (SP?) Mexico, and the day after she gets back is when I get the tiger-stripe. I hope I see her at work today so I can pick her brain for the food info-and to remind her to post images of both as she has my info here.

 

[the ringo kid]

The outdoor cats are not feral; they are extremely friendly. When they showed up several years ago we thought they were probably left behind when their owners moved.

That's how I found Shasta-as a few week old kitten-left abandoned because she was a runt. Ya know-runts often make the best cats. Shasta is the best cat -or one of the best 3 cats ive ever had.