Cats, cats, cats
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Oddly enough the ferals never seem to throw up unless they are going somewhere else to do it.
My husband and I are having a new house built, starting this summer (weird because we are mid seventies and life looks a lot shorter now) but my problem is this. Provided the ferals make it through this winter (it's relatively mild so far in Ohio this year) I will want to move the ferals with me. Have read you can't move them to a new spot, so now what?? Can't leave them because whomever buys this house surely won't want 2 feral cats with it and the responsibility. We are only going about one mile away yet I am worried I can't transplant them. Any thoughts on moving feral cats??
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Scrunch - Clyde barfs up wet food but less regularly than dry. His sister will only eat dry so I keep both out but only give Clyde a tablespoon of the wet at a time in hopes he can keep it down and then I refill if necessary with another table spoon. If he happens to still be hungry he eats the dry. And, yep, he can't tolerate the dry 95% of the time. So easy to tell when they barf which was the offending food. I really am okay with it being on the hardwood floor, even the rug is doable, but my bed? Yikes, that's a frigging nightmare because it always seeps through the duvet into the feather quilt. After all these years you would think I would be use to it but it always seems to throw me a bit when it happens.
My son had a cat that did well on baby food......may give that a try.
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violet, moving ferals, if you catch them and move to the new place, place some butter on their paws and they won't be able to track going back home. They will lick the butter off and remove the scent of the old place. And keep them in (not sure how'd you do that with these guys) for a few days. I did this any time we moved if the cats went outside.
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Thanks, Smaarty, for the advice. Not sure how I would get it on their paws or keep them in. My ferals are very suspicious of any movements towards them unless they come to me to ONLY have me scratch their heads. Touching any other part of their body must represent danger. We would not be moving until a year from now so there might be hope that by then they would trust me a bit more. Any advice is more than welcome.
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I don't know if this would work. Use the type of trap used for catching ferals when you take them in for spaying/neutering and put the butter on the bottom so they would have to step on it to get to the food at the back of the trap. just a thought.
Thank goodness I proofed this. Autocorrect turned ferals into freaks.
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Lol@freaks. Also try sleepin with an old blanket or towel. Put it out as a bed for them. That way they associate your scent with home.
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H ladies, I love this thread! Here is my little January being my doctor since I am in bed with a cold. She is my darling little Ewok rescue cat.
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Awwww...January looks so sweet. And she looks like my Miss Moppet - who also sleeps on my chest right in my face.
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About the "skittish older pet" thing. In my family, since I was a child and lasting for years and years, we always had a (big sized) cat and a small size dog. We started with having the cat already then when the cat was an adult someone gifted me a Tibetan Spaniel dog (I was about 12). From that time on, for a little over 30 years, they raised each other: the old cat would die, a kitten would be adopted and be raised by the dog, the dog would get old and die, a new dog would be adopted and be raised by the cat, and so on. It worked wonders. For some reason they were all males except the last cat - by then both me and my sister were moved out and my parents were getting too old to walk a dog three times a day so the cat didn't raise a puppy.
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Kiwicat and kathin dc - I appreciate your tips for moving my ferals. Will keep a record of these so that I can try them when I need to move into the new house.
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Love the ewok cat and the autocorrect!
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Ah. Nothing like being torn suddenly awake right before 5 am by a 16 lbs cat walking all over your liposuctioned belly.
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Trying to go to bed last night. My fat Whippet is taking full advantage of the pillows that are set to allow me to sleep propped up. Look at my long haired cat's face, he's like "yea, may we help you?"
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Too funny!
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Teka is lovely. Love the post, Ruthbru! Too funny - you're killing me!
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Great picture of Teka
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Arthur is adorable.
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I just had to share this.
Conor has been practically screaming at me for half an hour, not plain meowing, he was looking at me and almost screaming desperately. Really scared me because I couldn't figure out what was the problem. Wasn't lack of food or water, he didn't seem hurt, I was starting to worry that he's hurting or sick or something.
Then finally I figured it out: he had lost his break-away jingle-bell collar. And THAT is why he was throwing such a fit. I found it - probably fell off when he and Seamus played - and put it back on him and now he's on top of their cat tree, purring with a smug face.
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That is so cute
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So cute. Ha! We all know who the masters are and who are the pets!
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Rare pic of all three foster fails in one photo.
It's hot here today, so they're lazy. Note the kitten debris in the background...
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Arthur is adorable - I'd adopt him!
Hissy fit over losing his collar...love it!
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Just to keep topic on top of the active list. ( looks like a fun place to be though)0
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Hi Kathy
Love the photos.
Arthur!! What a great name! (Our cat is called Arthur). We had a Merlin who died in old age so kids decided to go with Arthur.
Beautiful cat, I hope he can be tamed.
Seachain how great that Conor has got so used to his collar that he actually likes it rather than hating it. We keep a jingly collar on Arthur too, he shows no signs of hating it but I do worry sometimes that he must, really nice to hear that Conor doesnt. We bought 2 of the birdsbesasfe collars but he lost both of them in quick succession. As they are so bright and look like a childs hair scrunchie I did wonder if kids might have removed them thinking he wasn't supposed to be wearing them.
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"Kitten debris"
Almost spilled my coffee.
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kItten debris = pieces of shredded paper towel, pieces of shredded draft report I'm working on (printed a copy), thoroughly munted catnip mouse that is unravelling, a small plastic bag (origin unknown), and cat hair. Our carpet is trashed; that was part of the appeal of the place we bought. We didn't want new carpet while the kittens are still behaving like out of control boy racer hoons.
And there's nice wood under that there carpet... so once painting is done, carpet be bye bye.Anyway, we have chronic kitten debris.
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as the dog says, I guess it applies to cats too😍
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