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Sep3
Madonna is here!
Filed under: The Fosters;No CommentsShe came in about an hour ago. I feel so bad for her. She’s skinny, and scared. She’s SO tiny. I mean she’s smaller than my Tinker who’s only 8 months old. but her belly is HUGE.
She isn’t warming up yet, but she is already purring a little, and she’s sniffing, so I left her in her new room to roam around and get familiar.
She wouldn’t stay out in the open yet so these are the best pics i could get
You can actually see her big belly a little here:
Now, seeing how my brats have never seen another cat, they’re INSANELY curious. Not to mention they just lost their play room for a couple days.
The crack under the door is OCCUPADO
In the end it’s all good. I’ll give her some time to get acclimated to the place and then I’ll literally smother her with too much affection.
UPDATE:So i went and sat in the room with her for awhile. she climbed up in my lap to lay down. I put my hand under her belly so she’d lay on it too. When she laid down I could definitely feel at least two kittens moving around in her belly.
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Sep3No Comments
For the last 8 months my cats have had free reign of the place here. Heck even when they were tiny kittens. Well when they were really tiny I kept them at my side obviously. But they were little and couldn’t walk so it’s not like I was restricting them.
They also have their own ‘kitten room’. It’s my master bedroom. Here are a few pictures of the messy room
This all sounds great. But there’s a problem. The new foster is going to need some dedicated space. I can socialize her with my cats, but she’s going to need privacy when the babies come. I need to give her enough room to run around, and still know her kittens are safe. But she’ll also need room to get away from them when she needs a breather. So my thoughts initially are that I’ll close the room off when she gives birth and keep my cats out of that bedroom. I don’t know how it’ll go because the mom cat will need some attention and I can’t just leave her locked up all the time, but we’ll play it by ear.
As it sits now I just got an email from the lady and she’s bringing her over in about 4 hours. -
Sep3No Comments
I’ve been an animal lover my whole life. As a kid we had dogs. Never cats. I was deathly allergic to cats so it wasn’t even an option.
Later on, when I was 19 I had a gal roomate. She wanted cats. So i told her she could get a couple and I’d see how it went. Turned out it didn’t bother me at all. I must have outgrown my asthma. Great!
From that time on i had cats. Always.I’ve also ALWAYS been in a relationship with a woman. Married, or just committed and living together I always managed to get cats :). I broke off a long relationship in August last year. Around the same time I managed to get a contract (i’m an independant consultant in the IT industry) with Intel for a year. Since it was long enough I decided instead of traveling there I’d just move there.
Not long after getting my condo I decided to get cats. I always want two. So they don’t get lonely and bored when I’m gone. I waS approached rather quickly by a lady that was caring for a litter of kittens. The mom died and she couldn’t handle the workload. Wow what timing! So I agreed to take two. A girl and a boy. They were only 2 weeks old when I got them so I had to bottle feed them, stimulate them to to the bathroom and basically raise them by hand.
Now that they’re on crusie control I decided I should do something to give back to the community. For the first time in 19 years I’m single and living alone. I simply LOVE it. I’ve got a full bedroom (actually it’s the master bedroom, long story) and a full bath. Oh and a walk in closet, all empty. I figured it’d be great to house a foster cat that’s pregnant or a litter of kittens in need.
Tomorrow I will be getting my foster mom-to-be. Here’s the explanation of the cat as described to me by the foster care group (Desert Paws Rescure Group)
I will be dropping her off as I am going to Mesa tomorrow anyway.
Madonna is a very sweet little girl. She’s a gray and silver tabby, short
haired. Right now her tummy is bigger than she is. She wandered into an
office at an industrial park near 20th avenue and Grand in Phoenix. We
really don’t know anything else about her. The gal who let her into the
office called her vet who happened to be my vet and they gave her my number.She’s very sweet, very vocal, likes attention, is comfortable in a room,
hates carriers and hates cages. She has not been vaccinated because she is
pregnant. She tested negative for leukemia and FIV. Hope you have lots of
time to give her attention and rub her belly, which she apreciates.So tomorrow is the day. I’m excited! I’ll take pictures and try to post frequent updates.
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