Poor Guy's Cat Rescue

Spot got out again today, I fixed the fence again. He has four cats that live with him on his patio, and they escaped too. He doesn't bother any of the cats so far, but he does sort of herd or chase the four that live with him back towards the patio/enclosure where they all sleep. He can tell which are his, two black and two tabby. So far he's been good, 8 months old now and things seem safer. Hope it remains that way.

Stinky had to be rushed to the vet Monday morning, he spent the entire week with them while they tried to figure out what was wrong. He was howling in pain, not eating, and falling over. It started suddenly. He had to have hip surgery a while back, and is sometimes wobbly. They observed him having muscle spasms in his lower back. They suspect he fell and possibly injured himself. He's walking now, but kind of spaced out on pain meds. I stopped to grab a chicken tenders snack and shared one with him on the way home. Another big vet bill now 😞 If anyone can, the vet accepts call in donations under my name , Charles Higdon. Their number is 334-222-1605, they are open Monday - Friday from 7:30am - 5:30pm cst.

Belly, from Mr Orange.

Please excuse the dirty counter. This is right after I got up. I usually go through and wipe the counters clean of any hairballs, barfs, strange footprints, etc., but Fritz was talking. I never have my phone handy when he's talking. There was a hairball and hairball juice, and someone apparently barfed on one of my colitis supplement bottles that i didnt clean in the rush to film him. I wish i could edit it out, but oh well. Rest assured, counter and dirty things were cleaned. He has the oddest meow.

I raised Jerry from less than a week old.

I got Kevin today. I already have a Kevin, but someone needed to rehome this Kevin (that's how I got the first Kevin too). He has a tail abscess I'm going to get checked out, otherwise seems healthy and friendly. He's at work with me at the moment.

I tried lightly putting the kitten's hernia back inside, it will go back into place easily, but of course will pop right back out of not held like most hernia I used an elastic wrist band , held the hernia in place with my finger, wrapped rhr wrist brace with just slight pressure around the kitten, and it worked. I can just barely slide my pinky in between the wrist brace (hernia belt) to check and see, the hernia is staying in. As you can see, the kitten seems content, can play. Etc. Pardon the loose litter on the pad, they were playing in the box (ugh) while I was wrapping him.

I got the four kittens, 3 boys, 1 girl. One orange tabby has a decent sized umbilical hernia. It's getting fixed Monday, that was the best I could do at 4pm on a Friday. He's eating, pooping, seems otherwise healthy. I told the woman I'd pay for her mother cat to be spayed, that's being done Friday.

Heard mews Friday...someone blessed us with a pregnant mom that had kittens in some straw I had under the shed. I let them be a while and went to check on the kittens, they seemed to be ok. They were crawling over one another it appeared. I decided to take a closer look...they were tangled on straw and each other's umbilical cords. One had it wrapped around his throat so tight it looked like it was cutting into the skin. It was wrapped around his upper front leg the same way. I couldn't separate them more than half an inch, so I had to take small sewing scissors, sterilized best I could in a hurry, and carefully cut the cord from the first one's throat and leg, then one at a time as best as I could, snip away the tangle of placenta, cords from the kittens, and straw. The mom is confused, she wants to love on me, then lunges to attack. This was Friday. The first kitten I mentioned passed Saturday. I had them all in a big kennel, the mom kept moving it away. Another kitten passed Saturday night. She kept moving it away. (Just to clarify , she was moving the kittens away while they were alive, not moving a deceased kitten. Just wanted to clarify before a rude "why are you leaving dead kittens with the mom" comment is posted ") Sunday she began having severe watery diarrhea, and had moved both remaining kittens away, one into a litter box, another under a heat lamp. I took those two inside, she seemed confused, like she didn't want her kittens, but at the same time didn't want them gone. I treated her for worms and coccidia. The kittens are about 4 days old now, eating 2-3 ml every 2-3 hours. They're loud and vocal if disturbed. We're having inspection of some sort for accreditation at our tech College today...had to bring them with me to feed of course. Hoping I don't get in trouble or fired, if I mess up this accreditation I will be. All it would take is one cat hater on the committee. Here are the remaining two on a heat pad not long after I took them. T

One of three male cat/kittens that appeared a bit ago. I can touch the orange one (Mr Orange) and his brother (Mr Brown, not pictured), but the Tuxedo (Mr Black) won't let me get closer than this video (10-15ft maybe). These two are together a fair bit, doing the same thing.