October 16th, National Feral Cat Day
Cokie our foster kitten sporting her surgical Onesie. Get velcro back. There is a large selection of Surgical Onesies on Amazon.com official site.
Chewy boxes make the best toys. Chewy also has a wide selection of fun interacting wand toys. I recommend some toys in next posting.
Cokie the tiniest but busiest foster kitten.
Up for adoption ❤ "Marilyn". A delicate little lap kitty. No rough play for her. All girl. She would do best in quiet household. She's very loving.❤
Boston 5 month old foster kitten playing with Spice the Food Truck kitten. Cute to watch. This seems to be the year of the Grey cat.
Cypress St. and River Rd. N. Ft Myers, Florida where there is a colony of cats. All the houses flooded. These people had very little now they have nothing.
She's been playing by herself less sleeping
I think she should be named Spice or Sassy?
KITTEN TRANSITION
"KITTEN TRANSITION" Where the kittens found outside go from learning the ways of the wild taught by their mothers to transitioning to house cat after taking them "into custody". Bathing, defleaing, deworming, each kitten or litter will have special problems to make them healthy which could be specialized vet visits for diognosis and medication that the average foster doesn't have access to, socialization, testing for cat diseases, shots. Spay neuters after reaching three pounds or over depending on the vet clinics protocol for the age or weight. Rescues are always full in kitten season and in S.W. Florida it seems kitten season is about April 1st to September 1st. Kittens are really born year round but all the fertile female cats have one or two litters in spring alone. Three litters a year very possible if someone doesn't take the mother and father cat to get fixed. The cost of a feral cat spay / neuter is way cheaper in long run than buying two 18 lb bags of cat food to feed momma cat, Papa cat and now multi litters and their offspring that survived. Cats have a very tough life outdoors. Get the kittens off the street, if the rescue can't take right away it's up to you to take them in and make them friendly. A kitten that's friendly can go to adoption at any age. Should you sit back and not help those surviving kittens they will learn to be wild by 7 weeks of age and they will be very hard to make a house cat out of at any age. Go to Kitten Lady on line where there is a wealth of information on kitten care. Go to Alley Cat Allies for a wealth of information on Trap/ Neuter/ Return of the adults. There is always a need for foster parents check at your local shelter or favorite rescue how you can help. 🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈Update: All the kittens except RAIN have left for adoption and have all since been adopted as of Aug. 20th, 2022.
Spay & Neuter T.N.R. Starts Today!
Yesterday was trapping day. Today we head to the spay & neuter clinic.