Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty
Ah, I LOVE it when they drool when you pet them...! How funny that Merlin always goes back to your house whenever possible :) I have a cat Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org www.shadowcats.net As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: elizabeth trent To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:36 PM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty Susan, you are an absolute angel :0) Four of my seven babies were feral. I had a $450 stray too --- Merlin. Poor thing had abscesses on both sides of his face -- he was so skinny and beat up. We got him all fixed up and gorgeous. Someone in the neighborhood adopted him after that. I never mentioned all the vet bills. He was a dear love - and anytime he got to go outside for any length of time - he would make a bee line for Liz's Kitty Boutique and Day Spa :0) (my front porch) All of my seven babies were either abandoned or totally feral. Sweet, dear Shakiti was SO shy it took months and months to be able to pet him. He's my precious little boy now and lets me hold him like a baby now while he drools on my shoulder LOL He curls up with me any time I take a nap -- he loves his mommy. If he so much as hears another human voice though -- he will hide and you won't be able to find him either until the big bad strangers are gone. I've never insisted that my babies allow me to pet them either. Slow and steady -- no sudden moves and lots of love. They all seem to come around in time..but sometimes it takes a very long time. I can even brush and comb all of mine now. I caught Othello once to take him to the vet's -- but that may not ever happen again LOL They are SO smart! Othello is the mighty hunter -- he's the fastest and the sneakiest. Zulu -- totally feral boy who dines at the boutique will run if he sees you through the door or window any closer than six feet. Evenso -- that is progress! :0) It takes a lot of patience with these dear ferals -- but every bit of time spent is worth it. elizabeth
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Wow, that's dedication too, and maddie is a very lucky cat to have you in her corner. When I caught the first of the 6 ferals, I was able to sneak up on them while they were eating sardines. I had a big airline size crate ready, and I scruffed stuffed them into it. The remaining cats are too hip for that, I will use the drop trap on them. I have 6 of them, I keep 3 loaned out to other trappers in Austin. The website below is wonderful, (Shadow Cats) feral cats are their passion and they have done some wonderful thiings for the community and the cats w/ their programs. Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org www.shadowcats.net As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: HIDEYO YAMAMOTO To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty It makes my day to know that there is someone like you out there taking care of feral -- I admire your effort and good luck bringing in the rest of the feral babies -- are you trapping them in a regular trap? If so, I highly recommend you consider using a drop trap -- Nina suggested that I use to re-trap Maddie who escapted out of her new adopted house two days later after she arrived (she was semi-feral cat) -- she was missing for 5 weeks until I finally re-trapped her with a drop trap -- after many many walks with putting out the flyers in all over the area -- the persistence had finally paid off -- I can't express how overwhelmingly happy we were to see maddie again..Maddie was sooo happy to be back home where she originally came from, and where all her brothers and friends are --
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It's just so awful -- people think that they can just dump these precious living creatures anywhere they want and they are going to be just fine -- I am so devastated to hear this story.. please please find out where your uncle took them and maybe you can perhaps retrap them.. I have done that.. my stupid neighbour adopted this feral kitty and she kept peeing in the house so, she dumped her some place far away from her house - so I found out where she took her and I staked out for a week and finally re-trapped her back and now she is with me -- I will be praying for those precious lives that they are going to be okay!.. - Original Message - From: wendymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org ; HyperTmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:39 AM Subject: OT: Need help ASAP with a kitty Hi guys, The past week has been a pretty rough one. My grandma in NC went into the hospital last Sunday and passed away on Wednesday. We were very close, and I am upset that I did not get to tell her goodbye. I was actually set to leave to see her this past Saturday, but I guess life doesn't go as planned, does it? Anyway, my grandma had 3 feral cats that have been fed by her caregiver for the past two years because she has not been able to get out of bed with the Parkinson's. Before I got to NC from Texas, my uncle trapped two and let them out at some remote farm, God knows where. The last kitty left has been my favorite since she was born. She was one of the ones the Best Friends came out and did a TNR on (there were several) a few years ago. She is feral so has never let me pet her, although I have played with her with string and talked to her everytime I've visited my grandma. When I went out to see which kitty was left yesterday, she let me know she was not happy and wanted to know where the rest of her family was. It is heartbreaking to me to see her and know what happened with the other two. I hope they are ok, and might possibly look into getting help for them in the next few days if my Uncle will tell me where he dropped them off. I am on my way to go try to trap her this afternoon with a can of tuna fish, a medium sized kitty carrier, and some string for the door. Wish me luck. Animal Control has a waiting list for traps, and I'm leaving tomorrow morning, so I have no access to one unless I buy one. I am just able to get online b/c my aunt and uncle have no Internet (I can't imagine!) and I had to wait to visit the library until now because of the funeral, etc. I will check for any replies on my way back from my grandma's place today. The help I need from you guys is this: Do any of you know of any rescue shelters that will take ferals (I would prefer a feral specific rescue, if possible)? I need one in the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, or Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina. I want her to have a good home. I do not want to take her back to Texas if I can avoid it at all. My husband will be mad at me if I do, and I'm traveling with my great aunt who's in her 80's and talks non-stop, so I think traveling with the two of them might be a disaster depending on how things go. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. FYI: We will be traveling on 40 through Tennessee tomorrow, so that is also an option for transport for us. I am also going to look online to see what might be out there for help for her. Please let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks guys, Wendy Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world - indeed it is the only thing that ever has! ~~~ Margaret Meade ~~~ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty
Wow, Hideyo! That's an impressive story. You sound like you earn your wings everyday.. :) Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org www.shadowcats.net As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: HIDEYO YAMAMOTO To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty It's just so awful -- people think that they can just dump these precious living creatures anywhere they want and they are going to be just fine -- I am so devastated to hear this story.. please please find out where your uncle took them and maybe you can perhaps retrap them.. I have done that.. my stupid neighbour adopted this feral kitty and she kept peeing in the house so, she dumped her some place far away from her house - so I found out where she took her and I staked out for a week and finally re-trapped her back and now she is with me -- I will be praying for those precious lives that they are going to be okay!..
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Oh.. thank you! I am a little crazy that way -- I just don't know when to give up sometimes -- I would have staked out in the car all day long until she showed up every day --- since I did not want anyone else to be trapped and observed by her, I would hide in my car and had a string attached to the flap door of the trap so I can manually release when she goes into the trap - I was so happy to have her back - she is one of the very feral one and I cannot still pet her-- but she is a good girl! - Original Message - From: Susan Dubosemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:53 PM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty Wow, Hideyo! That's an impressive story. You sound like you earn your wings everyday.. :) Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.comhttp://www.petgirlspetsitting.com/ www.Tx.SiameseRescue.orghttp://www.tx.siameserescue.org/ www.shadowcats.nethttp://www.shadowcats.net/ As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: HIDEYO YAMAMOTOmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty It's just so awful -- people think that they can just dump these precious living creatures anywhere they want and they are going to be just fine -- I am so devastated to hear this story.. please please find out where your uncle took them and maybe you can perhaps retrap them.. I have done that.. my stupid neighbour adopted this feral kitty and she kept peeing in the house so, she dumped her some place far away from her house - so I found out where she took her and I staked out for a week and finally re-trapped her back and now she is with me -- I will be praying for those precious lives that they are going to be okay!.. Emoticon80.gif
Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty
Oh yes, and I forgot to mention another little kitty that was dumped @ my feral colony recently, that now is living in my home. She used to show up to eat occasionally, sporting a very pretty pink collar w/ rhinestones on it. She was obviusly someone's pet, but very shy. One day she showed w/ no colllar to eat, and the hippie neighbors told me that her owners had moved over the weekend and put her outside after they removed her collar. Obviously they knew I fed the cats, and that she would be fine. Well, they hadn't bothered to spay her, of course, and after a few days I saw discharge coming from her bottom area Discharge as in green pus. I put her in a carrier and took her to my vet, of course, and she had such a bad case of pyrometria that her uterus had burst and her bladder was partially necrotic. They were not sure if she would ever be able to pee normally again. After about 10 days she was able to come home, and being as young as she was (about 1 year or so) she fit right in to. Of course, it helped that she purrfurred cats over people. She will cow if you get to close to her, but within days you could find her sleeping w/ one of my older cats. I named her Octavia, and she is a beautiful all black kitty w/ gorgeous green eyes. So, what is it w/ people again that think a feral colony is a dumping ground for their unwanted cats? Fine, she is much better off w/ me, she has a good life and she doesn't ever have to allow me to pet her if she does not want to. It's not required in this household. Apparently her former owners had children that were pretty rough w/ her, that is why she is handshy. It's been an expensive year @ Chez Mew Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org www.shadowcats.net As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: Susan Dubose To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty You are a very good purrson. I just took on 2 new clients that have house ferals. :) It just warms my coal black heart to see what hoops they will jump through for those cats... I am in the process of relocating one of my feral colonies to my backyard, which is HUGE. There is a cottage in the the back, w/ 2 other buildings also. This colony is small, only 12 cats, they are losing their home due to progress, of course. They have lived on the same greenbelt in Austin for years, and it was sold last year to built single family dwellings.. Gag The poor deer are being displaced too. Anyway, I have moved 5 to my yard, and one was tame and came to live inside. Thomacina is a huge orange tabby that was not feral, he was dumped @ the colony as a kitten and remained friendly. I noticed that his ear was draining constantly, full of pus, so I took him to my vet who said he had 3 types of very nasty bacterial infections going on, plus a growth that needed to be removed. After we got the infections cleared up, Dr. Samon stepped in and removed his growth, ear canal and stitched him up. So far so good, it was cancerous. I put him in a foster home for 2 weeks so he could recoup and finish his meds, and then introduced him to my motley crew of rascals hooligans in fur. I have never introduced a kitty that old to my gang (he's maybe 3 yrs?) so I wasn't sure what would happen. he fit right in, and now sleeps on my bed every night. It's funny when you take a kitty outta a bad situation where they are living on hand outs and move them inside, you can really see appreciation in their eyes everyday. He just LOVES sleeping in a soft bed.. I still have 6 more cats to move over to my home, I got sidetracked w/ the houston 14 from the rescuer / collector situation (felv+ exposure cats) But for now, I have trained the colony to eat in a good Sam's yard on a deadend street. Nice people, young hippies that have rock art all over their yard. So, kitties are somewhat outta harm's way for now. The main thing to remember is that you need to crate them for no less than 2 weeks in their new environment. That way they can see, smell, hear the comings goings in their new home. They HAVE to get familiar or they could try and find their old home. Very important. I put my 5 in a big walk in type pen that was inside my out building, for 6 weeks. One day I just left the door opened so they could be free in my yard. I didn't see then for 2 weeks, I was so upset. They just reappeared one day, probably had been hiding the whole time
Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty
Susan, you are an absolute angel :0) Four of my seven babies were feral. I had a $450 stray too --- Merlin. Poor thing had abscesses on both sides of his face -- he was so skinny and beat up. We got him all fixed up and gorgeous. Someone in the neighborhood adopted him after that. I never mentioned all the vet bills. He was a dear love - and anytime he got to go outside for any length of time - he would make a bee line for Liz's Kitty Boutique and Day Spa :0) (my front porch) All of my seven babies were either abandoned or totally feral. Sweet, dear Shakiti was SO shy it took months and months to be able to pet him. He's my precious little boy now and lets me hold him like a baby now while he drools on my shoulder LOL He curls up with me any time I take a nap -- he loves his mommy. If he so much as hears another human voice though -- he will hide and you won't be able to find him either until the big bad strangers are gone. I've never insisted that my babies allow me to pet them either. Slow and steady -- no sudden moves and lots of love. They all seem to come around in time..but sometimes it takes a very long time. I can even brush and comb all of mine now. I caught Othello once to take him to the vet's -- but that may not ever happen again LOL They are SO smart! Othello is the mighty hunter -- he's the fastest and the sneakiest. Zulu -- totally feral boy who dines at the boutique will run if he sees you through the door or window any closer than six feet. Evenso -- that is progress! :0) It takes a lot of patience with these dear ferals -- but every bit of time spent is worth it. elizabeth On 7/9/07, Susan Dubose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yes, and I forgot to mention another little kitty that was dumped @ my feral colony recently, that now is living in my home. She used to show up to eat occasionally, sporting a very pretty pink collar w/ rhinestones on it. She was obviusly someone's pet, but very shy. One day she showed w/ no colllar to eat, and the hippie neighbors told me that her owners had moved over the weekend and put her outside after they removed her collar. Obviously they knew I fed the cats, and that she would be fine. Well, they hadn't bothered to spay her, of course, and after a few days I saw discharge coming from her bottom area Discharge as in green pus. I put her in a carrier and took her to my vet, of course, and she had such a bad case of pyrometria that her uterus had burst and her bladder was partially necrotic. They were not sure if she would ever be able to pee normally again. After about 10 days she was able to come home, and being as young as she was (about 1 year or so) she fit right in to. Of course, it helped that she purrfurred cats over people. She will cow if you get to close to her, but within days you could find her sleeping w/ one of my older cats. I named her Octavia, and she is a beautiful all black kitty w/ gorgeous green eyes. So, what is it w/ people again that think a feral colony is a dumping ground for their unwanted cats? Fine, she is much better off w/ me, she has a good life and she doesn't ever have to allow me to pet her if she does not want to. It's not required in this household. Apparently her former owners had children that were pretty rough w/ her, that is why she is handshy. It's been an expensive year @ Chez Mew Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.com http://www.petgirlspetsitting.com/ www.Tx.SiameseRescue.org http://www.tx.siameserescue.org/ www.shadowcats.net As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - *From:* Susan Dubose [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* felvtalk@felineleukemia.org *Sent:* Monday, July 09, 2007 7:04 PM *Subject:* Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty You are a very good purrson. I just took on 2 new clients that have house ferals. :) It just warms my coal black heart to see what hoops they will jump through for those cats... I am in the process of relocating one of my feral colonies to my backyard, which is HUGE. There is a cottage in the the back, w/ 2 other buildings also. This colony is small, only 12 cats, they are losing their home due to progress, of course. They have lived on the same greenbelt in Austin for years, and it was sold last year to built single family dwellings.. Gag The poor deer are being displaced too. Anyway, I have moved 5 to my yard, and one was tame and came to live inside. Thomacina is a huge orange tabby that was not feral, he was dumped @ the colony as a kitten and remained friendly. I noticed that his ear was draining constantly, full of pus, so I took him to my vet who said he
Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty
It makes my day to know that there is someone like you out there taking care of feral -- I admire your effort and good luck bringing in the rest of the feral babies -- are you trapping them in a regular trap? If so, I highly recommend you consider using a drop trap -- Nina suggested that I use to re-trap Maddie who escapted out of her new adopted house two days later after she arrived (she was semi-feral cat) -- she was missing for 5 weeks until I finally re-trapped her with a drop trap -- after many many walks with putting out the flyers in all over the area -- the persistence had finally paid off -- I can't express how overwhelmingly happy we were to see maddie again..Maddie was sooo happy to be back home where she originally came from, and where all her brothers and friends are -- - Original Message - From: Susan Dubosemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty You are a very good purrson. I just took on 2 new clients that have house ferals. :) It just warms my coal black heart to see what hoops they will jump through for those cats... I am in the process of relocating one of my feral colonies to my backyard, which is HUGE. There is a cottage in the the back, w/ 2 other buildings also. This colony is small, only 12 cats, they are losing their home due to progress, of course. They have lived on the same greenbelt in Austin for years, and it was sold last year to built single family dwellings.. Gag The poor deer are being displaced too. Anyway, I have moved 5 to my yard, and one was tame and came to live inside. Thomacina is a huge orange tabby that was not feral, he was dumped @ the colony as a kitten and remained friendly. I noticed that his ear was draining constantly, full of pus, so I took him to my vet who said he had 3 types of very nasty bacterial infections going on, plus a growth that needed to be removed. After we got the infections cleared up, Dr. Samon stepped in and removed his growth, ear canal and stitched him up. So far so good, it was cancerous. I put him in a foster home for 2 weeks so he could recoup and finish his meds, and then introduced him to my motley crew of rascals hooligans in fur. I have never introduced a kitty that old to my gang (he's maybe 3 yrs?) so I wasn't sure what would happen. he fit right in, and now sleeps on my bed every night. It's funny when you take a kitty outta a bad situation where they are living on hand outs and move them inside, you can really see appreciation in their eyes everyday. He just LOVES sleeping in a soft bed.. I still have 6 more cats to move over to my home, I got sidetracked w/ the houston 14 from the rescuer / collector situation (felv+ exposure cats) But for now, I have trained the colony to eat in a good Sam's yard on a deadend street. Nice people, young hippies that have rock art all over their yard. So, kitties are somewhat outta harm's way for now. The main thing to remember is that you need to crate them for no less than 2 weeks in their new environment. That way they can see, smell, hear the comings goings in their new home. They HAVE to get familiar or they could try and find their old home. Very important. I put my 5 in a big walk in type pen that was inside my out building, for 6 weeks. One day I just left the door opened so they could be free in my yard. I didn't see then for 2 weeks, I was so upset. They just reappeared one day, probably had been hiding the whole time. Now they are fed @ 6am after I tend to the house cats. Spoiled, spoiled, little brats... Susan J. DuBose ^..^ www.PetGirlsPetsitting.comhttp://www.petgirlspetsitting.com/ www.Tx.SiameseRescue.orghttp://www.tx.siameserescue.org/ www.shadowcats.nethttp://www.shadowcats.net/ As Cleopatra lay in state, Faithful Bast at her side did wait, Purring welcomes of soft applause, Ever guarding with sharpened claws. Trajan Tennent - Original Message - From: HIDEYO YAMAMOTOmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgmailto:felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: Re: Need help ASAP with a kitty Oh.. thank you! I am a little crazy that way -- I just don't know when to give up sometimes -- I would have staked out in the car all day long until she showed up every day --- since I did not want anyone else to be trapped and observed by her, I would hide in my car and had a string attached to the flap door of the trap so I can manually release when she goes into the trap
