Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: A few days ago, my daughter found a cat with three kittens in a nest under a pine tree in our back yard. They appear to be 6 or 7 weeks old. We started picking up the kittens and holding them and petting them and they would let us. The [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We have a kitten who came to us during the summer months. We live in the mountains of North Carolina, and we’re wondering about the cold weather. Our cat is strictly an outside cat, but we thought we would put him in the basement on nights that were very cold. Now our question [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I’m a vet currently living in Guatemala City and working for the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). For the last two months, I’ve been feeding a stray cat who comes to my garden every day. I’ve vaccinated and de-wormed this cat, which I’ve named Colors, and given her anti-flea treatments. [...]
View Article feral cats, spay/neuter, TNRDear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We have a feral cat who has been injured. Looks like something took a big bite out of his neck. We cannot get him to a vet; he’s still very wild. He will allow my husband to pet him and come to him, but we can’t pick him up. [...]
View Article feral cats, stray cats, trap-neuter-returnDear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I have two 2-day-old kittens. The mom moved them to a plastic tub in a junk pile where tires and oil are. I found them and moved them back into a safe and clean place, which is where they were before she moved them. Will she come back and [...]
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