August 22, 2005
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Kitten News
Of the six new guys, Albion and Frodo continue to show the most personality. Albion is the odd kitten out, often sleeping when the other five are in pin-ball mode, bouncing around the cabin and off each other; eating when the others are all sleeping; and so forth. Frodo is the adventurous one–first out from under the bed, first one out of the cabin. Campbell–the calico tabby–is getting pretty adventurous, too.
I had thought they were doing well with the litter-box thing, but this morning I found LOTS of evidence to the contrary under the table. Lots of little kitten-poops and puddles of pee. Found out where Campbell’s diarrhea went. A little day-pack emblazoned with the Christian fish symbol was especially urine-soaked; discarded the thing. (I had found it in the dumpster, and just kept it as sort of a joke anyway.) Cleaned the rest of the mess up, sprayed with pet odor spray, no problem.
Last night, Silky and her kittens came around–just three now, number four has been missing for weeks and is presumed dead. Silky was my first cabin cat, but was deposed when Frankie, the cross-eyed siamese, showed up preggers on my doorstep last winter.(Silky and Frankie were enemies, now they have sort of an uneasy truce, can share the porch without animosity.) Anyway, all of Silky’s new kittens are pretty much feral, never having been handled as young kits. CC let me pet her as she (gender?) was eating. Then I made a big mistake–picked her up. Interfering with a cat in any way while it is eating is a feline felony–contempt of cat–especially when the cat is feral. I experienced numerous puncture wounds and scratches as she escaped my well-meaning but stupid attention.
Thank goodness for Betadine and microfoam tape.
Comments (4)
Try moving the litter box to under the table, since that is where it appears they think the potty is. If that’s not an option, then I dunno what to say. ‘good luck with that’ I suppose. Um, if you were bitten (as opposed to clawed) you might want to be concerned with rabies. I guess that’s always the chance when picking up pussy, feral or otherwise, though!
I have this magnet…it says…”My dog thinks it is human and my cat thinks it is God”…I am sure you can relate…huggs…Sassy
Felonious fox fondles feral feline — wounds at eleven.
OMG SuSu that is SOOOOO FUNNY!!!
ps – ryc on GF – TMI – way too much information – It did jog a memory of a mom story, and how she didn’t understand why dad put his foot down and would not let his son have his genitalia multilated!