I saw this today and thought of your Mama cats. I hope you can open it.
Oh, I KNOW Kate and Khaleesi can relate to that!
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My turn to ask for the collective kitty wisdom of Love and Hisses!
As I assume everyone here knows, declawing really is not humane and normally entails chopping off the last knuckle of each toe. It causes all kinds of problems and just isn’t a good or kind thing to do. Well, a friend of mine mentioned that her vet has a method of declawing that I had never heard of. He leaves the paws intact and just cuts the tendon on each toe that allows them to extend the claw. According to her, the cat was a little sore but recovered within 24 hours and had no litterbox issues or behavioral changes at all.
I’m not entirely sold – I still think that declawing a cat still removes their natural defenses and leaves them vulnerable and I still wouldn’t do that to any of my furbabies – but what do people here think? Legit or crap?
Severing tendons sounds painful to me! But honestly, I don’t know anything about this kind of declawing, so I’m posting this so anyone who’s ever heard of it can tell us what’s what.
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Speaking of never staying on the blanket: This one made me laugh my head off … and think of all your kittens.
Those kittens are driving me crazy. I went up there yesterday and they’d pushed the bed away from the barrier and were all curled up between the bed and the barrier, on the hard wood floor. At this point they’re mobile enough that if they WANT to be in the bed they can get up and GET in the bed, but it still bugs me!
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You guys are the only cat people I know, so here’s more in the continuing saga of Pumpkin, the spayed cat who went into heat. I took her to the vet school emergency room last night because there is a pretty obvious bulge right at her incision site. Incision itself was clean, dry, no swelling or redness, blah blah blah. Vet couldn’t tell over the phone or in person when we took her in if it was inflammation or a hernia. So she had xrays which show everything is in place, but her kidneys looked enlarged (pre-op bloodwork was normal). So anyway, she’s just hanging out at home now and we’re watching her. In the 7 weeks we’ve had her, she’s had a rabies shot, fecal exam, vet visit for being in heat, 2nd spay, and an emergency vet visit. I’m renaming her Money Pit.
As the owner of a Money Pit cat myself (that would be Miz Poo)(though the last few years have been relatively calm), I feel your pain. Hopefully Pumpkin will decide to STOP THAT and calm down!
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possibly the cutest cat video ever:
That’s no kitten! That’s a baby kangeroo! (What a CUTIE!)
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Please don’t bring the Royals to Petsmart before we have seen inter-litter snuggling. I’m curious how the 2 mamas would be together. And how would Khaleesi react if you were to bring a Royal in her room? Would she feel threatened since it’s a kitten and not an adult cat?
The two mamas won’t be together – I’ve seen enough of their behavior when they glimpse each other as I’m opening or closing the door to know that I don’t even want to try it. I might introduce a Royal or two to the Dragons when the Dragons get older, but the Royals tend to be a bit… DRAMATIC, so I’m going to be careful with that.
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Also
The googly eyes on the second one just kill me.
Love it!
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Do any of the permanent residents ever make it over the barrier into the foster room, or are they all “oh, another wee baby kitten, so what?”
When there’s not a mama kitty present, Jake will climb over the barrier to visit with the kittens (and to partake of the kitten food). But with a protective mama around, he keeps his distance. It’s too bad Elwood isn’t still with us – he’d climb over that barrier to get to the kitten food if there was a mama around or not!
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With all that cute sweetness in the house, it’s a wonder you’re not on insulin. Do the kittens ramrod around like that at night?
I rarely hear them running around at night – but we close them in the foster room at bedtime, so even if they’re running around like crazy, their room is over the front room and I wouldn’t hear them. Fred occasionally hears them playing, but they’re not so loud that they keep him awake, luckily.
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Did we already discuss that Puff is the perfect name for a kitten with a head that looks like a dandelion when it’s all blown to seed? I feel like I picked that up from one of y’all.
I actually think we had that discussion about Dandelion – that it was the perfect name for her, because she looked so much like a dandelion gone to seed. It’s possible we’ve also had that discussion about Puff, and I’m just not remembering it.
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Without the pigs who will eat the leftover sweets or DCEP recipe fails?
Between the chickens and George and Gracie, all the kitchen waste is pretty well taken care of.
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Also, in the Corbie picture is that a new cat tree his highness is perched on?
No, we’ve had that cat tree for… I don’t know. Nine months, a year? Something like that. I don’t remember where we had it before (we tend to move the cat trees around from time to time), but it’s in my room now. The kittens have started hanging out on it, so I’m sure you’ll see much more of it.
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Stinkerbelle is apparently thrilled to have kittens roaming around her. Or is that just her standard reaction to any cat or kitten (except Tommy) that gets too close?
Stinkerbelle will hiss at any cat or kitten who gets too close – and if they don’t heed her warning, she’ll smack them. She has zero use for any cat other than her beloved Tommy.
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What do you think happened to that pretty blonde rooster? and where is ARNOLD? how are the freezer camp chickens doing, how big are they now? or are they already off to camp? I love that rock star chicken. he is so awesome.
That blonde rooster is actually a hen – and I’m not sure what happened to her. Her leg is definitely not broken, but it’s entirely possible she sprained or pulled something. She’s one of our oldest hens (she’s five years old, one of our original twelve), so maybe she broke a hip. We’ll keep her confined and hope that the issue resolves itself. Arnold’s out in the back forty with the other chickens – I will do my best to get a picture of him, soon! The freezer camp chickens went off to freezer camp about a month ago, and were all between 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 pounds.
The rock star is probably my favorite chicken. She is so so so pretty!
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Ember always reminds me of Shiro except I don’t think she is as laid back.
Ember is a little on the nervous side, but she’s coming around. Yesterday she climbed into my lap and took a nap and it was all I could do not to squoosh her.
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I thought Kate got spayed…am I wrong? If so, shouldn’t she stop producing milk rather quickly?
No, you’re right – she was spayed last week. But she’ll produce milk as long as she keeps letting those little monsters nurse. As far as I know, spaying won’t stop her milk production, she could probably produce milk forever!
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Norbert cracks me up when he walks across the wood floor; he looks like he’s ice skating.
Bed full o’ kittens.
“Ruth is laying on my ARM, and my ARM fell ASLEEP and I don’t want to move ’cause it might wake her up!”
Norbert likes to tussle with his Mama.
Basket full o’ Norbs.
Is that Ruth not the MOST beautiful little girl?
I put that stupid crown-looking toy on him and he just sat there and sat there with it on his head like he couldn’t feel it through all the floof, but the INSTANT I got the camera pointed at him, he fell over on his side and started chewing on his toes. BRAT.
Mama, keeping an eye on Puff.
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Is there anything sweeter than a sleepy kitten?
“We was sleepin’, lady.”
Leia, staring up into the light.
Pretty, floofy (and also pretty floofy!) girl.
Pile o’ CUTE.
Aslan, sound asleep.
They are SO over me right now.
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“Lady, there appear to be KITTENS everywhere.”
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Previously
2012: Is it possible for tomatoes to ripen ANY more slowly?
2011: Miss Dorfy loves her some Jake.
2010: No entry.
2009: She’s got a lot to say and BOY does she say it.
2008: No entry.
2007: So the dog has a safe and happy home, and since it ain’t with ME, I am thrilled beyond belief.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.