More new additions!!! (and maybe a new record for litter box training!!!!)

[krdahmer]

You will all have to excuse me, this may be long winded as we had an exciting weekend here!

Well I have talked about fostering animals before, and yesturday it got decided for me! Mamma, the outdoor cat I've been feeding (and also plan to catch/spay..etc) started to bring her kittens around this weekend...3 orange tabbies and a black/grey tabby. I put out flyers trying to locate them, with no luck, then they just showed up on my doorstep with mamma! (The neighbourhood ruffians of course were tormenting them) So, a little neighbour girl and her mom caught two, then put them back unsure of what to do with them as I was away that day. Long story short....we now have 3 of the 4 kittens and I plan to get a trap at the end of this week to get mamma and the remaining kitten (if the girl can't catch it for me-she has a real gift!---school came at an inopportune time this year ).

The three little ones so far are a girl, a boy and unknown (I'm trying to slowly introduce myself). They are having kitten food and 'cats milk', and plenty of water.... they are seperated from my three in our spare room. And after bringing them in yesturday afternoon and one accident they were litter trained by last night (in a non clumping litter-I remembered that from another post)!!! I am keeping a close eye on them, checking their eyes, their feces, and of course trying to clean out some of the fleas (yick) as they are about a week or two too young for treatment. We plan to take them to the vet Friday, or at some point next week (they should be treatable for worms/fleas by then) if all goes well this week $$(hoping to have mamma and other baby by next weekend).

We also got in touch with an adoption place here in our area and may have already found good homes with family and friends.

Ok, and I was also hoping for an opinion on taking in Mamma, she is 1 year or little less old, this is her first litter, and she is ok eating on my porch with me there, she has been getting her food from me since last December, I plan to get her spayed. Have any of you heard of one in the wild that long being trained?? I really want to help her out, and her little black minx boyfriend too, because the Humane Society here pretty much guaranteed me they didnt stand a chance there, due to their age....people here are only interested in kittens, and I have got more help from the Lincoln County Humane Society than ours here in the Falls....at least they were willing to help me find out more info!