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Topic: Semi-Feral Kittens - Overdose of Cute
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teasel
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posted August 25, 2013 02:42 AM
  
They're living in our garage. I feel a little nervous, responsible for their well-being. I only discovered that they exist on Friday (I had my suspicions - they were in a log pile off to the side of the garage). Talk about kitten therapy.  I've handled all of them, but I need to move them out of the part of the garage they're in, and I'm nervous - I don't want to push it with Mama cat. I'm half-wondering if she'll move them again during the night. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted August 25, 2013 12:05 PM
If you feed her, the mama cat will keep them there.IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted September 28, 2013 09:39 PM
She brought them to me, because I was feeding her, and so was my Dad. 
They've been living in another part of the garage for a few weeks now; they are big enough to follow their mum through the window, and usually spend the days outside, and the nights indoors. They choose to come back to eat and sleep. I love them all.     Button, my little friend, was missing that night. Curious, is the little black one on the right there... my other little friend. The other two aren't so keen on getting to know people, but can be held and petted. I get purrs from Button and Curious, and they all look so happy to be back at night. Their mum? I adore her. I don't spend enough time with any of them, because I have my dogs and our cat in here; they've had colds, and after losing our cats two years ago, I don't want to chance Pushka getting sick.
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juniperb
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posted September 29, 2013 07:58 AM
You are so lucky teasel!! These fur babies are adorable. They look healthy and about 8 weeks old??
Are you going to keep them? The tiger tabby really stirs my heart!
Josie, our Siamese turned 18 on Sept 20th and died on the 21st. We are heart broken as well as our 17 yr old Himi is depressed.
We knew she was failing but it is always a hole left behind.
We are contemplating another forever baby and pick fostering up again.
Your babies make me think I need to get back to the land of the living.
Thank you so much for sharing the fur faces and keep updating as they grow!------------------
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libraschoice77
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posted September 29, 2013 01:35 PM
How sweet they are  IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted October 01, 2013 10:45 AM
Cutiepie fluffas!IP: Logged |
MoonWitch
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posted October 01, 2013 02:42 PM
oh my goodness they are precious!!IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 07, 2013 01:51 PM
Juni, I didn't see your post here until a couple of weeks later. I'm not sure what we're going to do. Dad doesn't want them in the house, and I've been sitting with them out in the garage or garden, but they run past my ankles in here now, and Curious has Mum in love with him, and Pushka likes him, too. Little Tabby was really stand-offish, and I didn't think he/she would ever be people-friendly, but he/she purrs now, and cuddles in my lap. I almost contacted you asking if you wanted it, but I don't know about separating them. Most mothers I've known in the past, didn't want anything to do with their kittens after a certain age, but their Mum has been keeping them company, and hanging around. I love them all, too, and don't know what to do: I feel selfish, but they also felt like a gift after Emily died, you know? They were born when she died, and they lightened me up like nothing else did. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I will let you know if we find them homes - you would be first on the list to be notified. They're almost four months old now, and they run to see me - they've been camping out on the seats outside, next to the back door, if I don't get them back into the garage room and their quilt. I gave them my mattress pad, too. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 07, 2013 03:46 PM
Can you post recent pics?IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 08, 2013 05:07 PM
I don't have a working camera. I had to ask my sister that one night, and I loathe the idea of asking her again. Their mother still hasn't shown up. Three days now. She usually shows when I call out to her - comes running from the woods, and hangs around and keeps an eye on her little ones. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 08, 2013 07:45 PM
The mother probably left them. Maybe not, but they are old enough to fend for themselves now. Mother Nature has a cut-off point for kitties.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted November 09, 2013 12:18 PM
Interesting that big cats often stay together through generations, though (lions). IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted November 16, 2013 08:24 AM
Teasel, are they still with you? Has Mama kitty come back?
Have you and Dad considered fostering ?
If these babies get pregnant or Mama comes home in the family way again, you are going to have a whole lot of furry love.
It is good to hear they are warming up and being lap babies.------------------
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teasel
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posted November 19, 2013 01:52 AM
Dad saw Mama Kitty on Friday night, apparently. Mum apparently talked Dad into keeping them - they've been in my room for a week now (until today). I'd taken them outside for some fresh air, but a week ago, I couldn't sleep when they were bunched up against the back door, in the snow. So that led to arguments, and now my sister is angry, because their being here makes me happy. I don't know how she can be so awful to me, but I'm feeling just as awful and obnoxious now - I never thought my own sister would have that effect on me, and deliberately.  But back to the kittens. Juni, I still look at the little tabby and think about you. I don't know if I'm doing the right thing in keeping them, but Mum loves them, too. Pushka, our cat, isn't thrilled. He's been trying to get outside to meet them, but I guess they're on his turf now, and he wasn't happy about it. They were all purring at him, wanting to meet him... I guess he's been an only cat for too long. I've been stressed about the responsibility since Mum cat brought them into our garage, but I'm 100% in love with them, too. I'm just so used to bad things happening now. I'm a more than a little scared. God, I feel so stupid. Everything makes me cry now - bad news, good news, happy things, sad things. I'm so sick of being whacked around, and upsets/misunderstandings, or outright meanness - do any of you just feel battered by life right now?  It's just been too much. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 19, 2013 01:57 AM
Oh. and they will definitely be fixed. Mum knows that my original plan - before they became tame, and started to run to meet me, and purr, and basically stole my heart - was to fix Mum cat and eventually adopt *her*, but she doesn't want to even be shut in the garage room for one night, let alone live indoors. She's too jumpy. Don't worry - we'll make sure they don't reproduce. This isn't our first rodeo.  Elsie slipped out of the house and got pregnant, and that was how we got Minnie and Teasel. Little Curious reminds me of a mix of Elsie and Minnie. So brave, and purrs so loudly. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 19, 2013 09:07 PM
I miss feeling like I can trust certain people here. I know nobody wants to hear it - it's old news. I'm old news. I'm angry again - and crying. I hate this. I hate that I got dragged into other people's drama - people who wouldn't listen when I told them repeatedly that I had nothing to do with whatever was going on, I was (and still am) getting regularly attacked at home, my dog was dying and my brain was fried - so I finally lose my temper and vent, and hey, I'm a bad person, and a liar. Which I'm not, at all. IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted November 21, 2013 09:33 AM
It sometimes hurts the heart to know the fur faces are out in the cold and snow. Are they still inside with you and family?
Sounds like you are fostering without the title
That`s sweet your Mum is also in love with the babies. That makes for a easier transition into the home and family for them.
I knew you understood about them being fixed for their own safety and health. ------------------
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teasel
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posted November 27, 2013 02:06 PM
I've been informed that tabby is a little boy. I need to think of new names, and soon. I can't keep calling them Button and Cutie. Curious is Georgie, like my cousin's wife (he was going to be George or Georgette, whatever the outcome). IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted November 28, 2013 10:51 AM
The tiger baby looks like a Sassafras and a girl one could be the genus /family of the tree: Lauraceae! The sassafras tree has with three different leaves. One is oval, one partly divided into three lobes, and one is mitten-shaped. You could call a third baby Mitten! Naming special babies is fun & so forgive my sillyness Happy Thanksgiving teasel and fur babies . ------------------
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Randall
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posted November 29, 2013 12:31 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, fluffas.IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted December 10, 2013 07:38 PM
Just looking in for updated.------------------
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teasel
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posted December 11, 2013 03:32 AM
Thank you. I still haven't named them.If anyone here would pray for my mother to regain her health, I'd really appreciate it. Tabby has been having some breathing problems, too - slight. Just today and tonight, so I hope it's a little cold trying to come on. He's been fine up until now, and had a bit of a scare earlier, so I thought he was having a panic attack of his own. He's in with my sister right now, and her humidifier. IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted December 24, 2013 09:41 AM
Merry Christmas teasel and babies.IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted December 26, 2013 06:14 PM
Tabby kitten just died. I don't understand it. I let him out briefly yesterday, because he wanted to go. Dad brought him back in. He wasn't eating a great amount, but he was eating a bit,and dad gave him some liquified Recovery canin canned food this morning. he apparently fought dad, and was choking a bit, but seemed okay afterwards. I don't understand this. I shouldn't have let him out, I guess - he was out a few minutes longer than I wanted him to be. He had an upper respiratory infection, supposedly, and we'd had him in with my sister's humidifier, and he'd brought himself out on Sunday and Monday. I thought he was going to be okay. He's five/six months old (born mid-July). **** **** **** **** **** . Dad got attached to him, as well. He had been keeping his distance, until the fire a couple of weeks ago, and knowing he wasn't feeling well, he was the one doing most of the work, helping me to get his food into him. He took him to the vet, gave him little names (Bugsy, and Count Tabula), and he had a bit of a cry, saying he shouldn't have got attached, that he isn't allowed. I can't believe this. I keep expecting him to talk to me. I thought he was talking when I walked into the room, but he was scared - he kept it up as he was trying to catch his breath. IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted December 27, 2013 08:02 AM
I`m sorry for your families loss
Bless you and Dad for giving the care, love , food/meds and shelter.
He found a wonderful home to carry him through.------------------
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