Fostering Kittens

[Stradling]

7 hours ago, Hot Damn! said:

Why has no one commented on this....???

It’s been around here quite a bit lately.  If you called or stopped by every now and then or if you followed me on Twitter you’d know.  

[Roy Hobbs]

35 minutes ago, calscuf said:

I think most people here hate my dog.

It's not your dog but your dong

[Taylor]

The kittens are now off the bottle and eating "solid" food. Kitten food is expensive, and these guys go through like four cans of it per day.

[gotbeer]

So Taylor is one step closer to becoming cat food.

[Tank]

21 hours ago, Taylor said:

The kittens are now off the bottle and eating "solid" food. Kitten food is expensive, and these guys go through like four cans of it per day.

dude, you gotta put out dry food for them. way more affordable.

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, Tank said:

dude, you gotta put out dry food for them. way more affordable.

We give our adult cat dry food. It costs us $35 every 6 months.

Kittens can't have dry food until they're a few months old.

[Angelsjunky]

Be careful about dry food with male cats as it may lead to urinary blockages, which can lead to major problems. 

One of my cats had a urinary blockage a couple years ago, which required hospitalization for a night. After a couple months back home, he was blocked again and back in the hospital. The total cost for both times was something like $3-4K, if I remember correctly. Anyhow, we took him off dry food and he hasn't been blocked since. 

I think it also was stress-related, as he had been in quarantine for a few months (we moved to Hawaii) and then was an indoor cat for another few months, which he hated as he had grown up in rural New Hampshire. Now he eats only wet food and has free access to the outdoors, so is a happy and healthy cat.

It was kind of funny, because the vet told us that he had the blockage largely because he had a very small penis. Evidently this happens with male cats when they're neutered a bit too young: it slows and diminishes their "growth," increasing the chances of blockage problems later on. Add in the stress he experienced for a few months and the dry food, and he developed urinary crystals. The alternative was either being put down or basically castrating him and building a pee-hole, which not only would have been horrible for him but cost thousands.

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 8/25/2019 at 11:09 AM, Taylor said:

Our adult male cat has been without his balls for years. Sometimes the kittens will look at him as if to say, "Are you my dad?"

In that case, wouldnt it be mom instead of dad?

And those pics of the cats looking at your dong, aside from the cals legend photo, make it like that "are you my mother" book. With the chicken thats asking the dumptruck and airplanes and stuff.

 

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 8/27/2019 at 12:58 PM, Tank said:

i've never seen a human baby turn into a cat.

 

[Lou]

5 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that @gotbeer enjoyed that movie.

 

*all puns intended 

[Slegnaac]

On 8/26/2019 at 8:31 PM, Taylor said:

We already have a 9-year-old cat, and since we live in a one bedroom apartment, we're only planning to keep one of these kittens.

Kittens are like peanuts, you can't stop at one.

[Taylor]

We've adopted out three of our kittens, and still have three left. If anyone knows of anyone wanting to adopt a kitten, let me know!

Shohei

 

Leo

 

Spaz

Edited September 28, 2019 by Taylor

[Lou]

I adopt out my trash every Wednesday

[gotbeer]

Taylor is already teaching the death machines how to bury their prey in the garden after the kill.

[tdawg87]

On 8/30/2019 at 4:47 PM, Angelsjunky said:

It was kind of funny, because the vet told us that he had the blockage largely because he had a very small penis.

Damn, that's funny!

On an entirely unrelated note, I just made a doctor's appointment. Told them it was urgent.

[T.G.]

Name the orange one Calhoun.

[Taylor]

8 minutes ago, True Grich said:

Name the orange one Calhoun.

His name was Weasley. He then got adopted, and his adopters named him Hamilton. 

[T.G.]

Who names a cat Hamilton?

Oh wait...

Are you and Josh friends?

[Taylor]

1 minute ago, True Grich said:

Who names a cat Hamilton?

Oh wait...

Are you and Josh friends?

Haha. I didn't even consider that Josh Hamilton has red hair.

Apparently, they named him after a race car driver. 

[T.G.]

2 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Haha. I didn't even consider that Josh Hamilton has red hair.

Apparently, they named him after a race car driver.