Showing posts with label Bathing cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bathing cats. Show all posts

16.12.06

Bath Night


Our boys are presently coming to terms with the possibility of a new edition, approximately three to four months old. For me, this is a new experience as all the strays I have previously taken in were adult. It was a relief to find that this new fellow, Pepper, is already litter box trained.

When you want cats to become friends, they need to smell the same. We have used a pure pet soap and it has successfully stopped all flea problems so that we no longer have to treat the cats for flea seasons.When Marmaduke was alive, the boys always play fought for space in front of the fire. One didn't have to hunt through the house to find any of them as they were inseperable.
In the photo above, there is a two pound bucket of water. We have a number of these through the house as cats prefer to graze on water as they do on food in the wild. We find they use the water next to food less than water left at other spots where congregation occurs. They are far more comfortable drinking from water at the height it is in the buckets.

6.3.06

Kayla


Poor dear Kayla. She was with us for so short a time, but left an impact, none the less. We had noticed her in the SPCA cage at a pet store, several times after losing Marmaduke, in 2003, and friends thought we would make a good home for her. When we brought her home, she seemed to be suffering from her time in the small cage in that her limbs didn't want to move properly from lack of strength. The basic once over by the vet showed no illness. A couple of days later, we took her back and had more tests run. By the time we discovered that she did indeed have a serious problem that was not related to her stay in the cage, it was too late to save her beautiful little life. After emergency surgery and at least pain medications for comfort, she died the next day, (May 31, 2003), of septic peritonitis.

The boys hadn't known what to do with a girl. ;-(