Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We had two cats currently in our home, one is almost 5 and the other is 3. We then brought in two newborns who were left near our doorstep when they were about 3 weeks old. We raised them by hand, and they’re now about 14 months old. The [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: We love when our human reads Sparkle the Designer Cat. She has learned a lot that has made living with us better. Today Sparkle was talking about ‘nip and it made her think of a question she recently got from a potential adopter she couldn’t answer. Our question is [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I am fostering a mother cat who just gave birth to five kittens. As I write this, the kittens are two days old, and my little girls are dying to pet and hold them. Is this a good idea? I don’t want to see Nala, the momma cat, become [...]
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Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable Kitties: I found Diva and Tater on Craigslist. They were 9 weeks old at the time, and they were healthy and happy. I brought them into a household with one 4-month-old rescue female kitten from a vet’s office. It was instant adoration! They thought of Gracie as “Mom.” They “nursed” [...]
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Kitties’ note: Mama’s been having kind of a rough day today, and she said the only way she could manage to help us write our column was if we had a happy question to answer. And lucky for us, in the wee hours of the morning, this letter came through! Dear Most Esteemed and Knowledgeable [...]
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