HC Minis - new pics pg 172

[chandab]

He's still pretty tiny, but not so fragile any more. He's a feisty little guy. [i keep saying he, but he's so small yet, that I really can't be sure. I can't tell with cats til they are older than he is.]

 

[AnnaC]

Oh he is just sooooooooooooooooo darn cute!!

 

[chandab]

He didn't hold still too well, but I think he's up to 16 oz now, so he's doubled his weight since 9-17. He's been on just the KMR or KMR plus a little bit of baby rice cereal, as the canned cat food was too much for him; but I tried a little bit of canned cat food tonight, and he ate it right up, now to wait and see if he keeps it down. When I picked up the KMR, the vet clinic gave me a sample bag of Science Diet kitten food, per usual, no one around here likes it; guess I'll have to pick up a bag of Kitten Chow tomorrow when I'm in town. Might have to feed that sample bag ot the barn cats, and see if they'll eat it. [He wouldn't even try it when I crushed a couple pieces so they'd be easy to eat.]

 

[chandab]

Pictures from today.

Bob's opinion of the kitten:



And, the kitten with Trip:

 

[chandab]

Trip is our smallest adult house cat at about 6#, so you can see just how tiny the kitten is. Bob tips the scales over 15#.

 

[chandab]

Here's a little George update for you.

Its been 3 weeks or so that George has been in the house (maybe more like 4+ weeks, I really can't remember when I brought him in), he's now over
25oz (he was only 8oz when I brought him in) and very feisty. he still looks a bit like a little gremlin, as I didn't wash his face well enough
after some meals, and the milk gooped up his face.
Here are a couple pictures from last night, he was on the back of the couch.

 

[chandab]

He's a little terror, so while he might stay here permanently, when he's big enough he'll go back out to the barns. Definitely can't be a house cat here, we already have 3 and that's plenty. I'm not sure with his attitude that I could find someone willing to take him.

He's so dang cute, and has such a motor already.

 

[AnnaC]

LOL!! He certainly is a character - but with those gorgeously big ears and that face, what else could he be?

I've always wondered how anyone manages to keep barn and indoor cats separated - semi feral outside/barn cats I can understand not necessarily wanting to come indoors, but how do you keep indoor cats from venturing outside and prowling around? My five cats all come and go at will - cat flap plus a window left open for them - and spend their time either outside doing cat like duties or wandering the fields with the dogs and myself when we do horse checks, or they are to be found asleep on the beds, on areas where hot pipes run under the floor boards or on the dog bed in front of the old rayburn/wood burner. I often read about folks with indoor or outdoor cats and am interested to know how they manage it!!??

 

[chandab]

I really don't know how others manage it, and it doesn't always work here, but... We started with just barn cats, never fed near the house, not allowed near the house (dog territory, so they mostly stayed clear anyway), and they pretty much stayed away from the house. We got a house cat (converted barn kitten), she didn't usually go far, til the day she disappeared, the house was too quite, so we got another house cat (converted barn kitten) and same day my MIL brought me a kitten, so we had two house cats; after the first one disappeared these two were going to be indoors only, but Bob wouldn't have it, he wanted out (the gift kitty), so he goes out often during the day, but in at night. Blue the other one, was strictly a house cat for quite some time, but he got out one day when UPS came, and eventually learned to like the outdoors, but is a big pansy compared to Bob, so doesn't spend as much time outside. A few years later, a long came Trip, she's missing a paw due to frostbite, so she IS strictly indoors. and, now George, who will probably become a barn kitty or go to someone else to be a house kitty.

 

[AnnaC]

Well you seem to have it well organised Chanda, virtually letting the cats decide for themselves! I just wondered, with all the doors and windows open in the summer, how folks managed to 'contain' their indoor cats.

 

[chandab]

We don't leave our doors and windows open in the summer (at least not without screens on them), so we have to be the doorman for all cat/dog comings and goings from the house. [Gosh where we live if we left doors and windows open without screens, we might get skunks and raccoons and maybe even coyotes in the house (plus the obvious of mice), so no thank you. I'll keep the doors and windows shut, unless there is a screen.]

 

[AnnaC]

LOL!! Sorry I'd forgotten - that's the trouble with the internet (and an elderly brain!), I tend to think that the folks I'm 'talking to' actually live just down the road!!

 

[Wings]

He's looking good!

When we moved in we inherited two barn cats (later found out they'd been house cats too) and brought along our indoor cat. We now have two inside and they never go out, like Chanda we have screens on a lot of the windows so we only open things that are covered.

The barn cats have a bed and a bowl of biscuits in the shed and they are happy to treat that has home base.

 

[AnnaC]

Aww bless her Diane, what a sweetie plus making life easy for you - even if she's being an itsy bitsy tiny bit silly!

 

[AnnaC]

As we keep saying - cheers for the golden oldies!!

 

[Magic Marker Minis]

We have several(LOL)cats. Most are indoor/outdoor cats. I have two that refuse to go outside. One won't leave my bedroom.

Over the last week two of our cats have disappeared. Last year when one disappeared, we found him at the shelter a month later. Supposedly our neighbor picked him up at the road. This cat doesn't like strangers and is even sometimes difficult for me to catch. So, how did she stop on the road and pick him up. Also the animal shelter said they picked out his name, only problem is it was the same name we gave him. It wasn't a common name, Smudge. We think the neighbor is up to her old tricks again. Cats are grounded. Enclosed the back porch, closest they get to the outside. NOT HAPPY KITTIES!!!!

 

[chandab]

We have several(LOL)cats. Most are indoor/outdoor cats. I have two that refuse to go outside. One won't leave my bedroom.

Over the last week two of our cats have disappeared. Last year when one disappeared, we found him at the shelter a month later. Supposedly our neighbor picked him up at the road. This cat doesn't like strangers and is even sometimes difficult for me to catch. So, how did she stop on the road and pick him up. Also the animal shelter said they picked out his name, only problem is it was the same name we gave him. It wasn't a common name, Smudge. We think the neighbor is up to her old tricks again. Cats are grounded. Enclosed the back porch, closest they get to the outside. NOT HAPPY KITTIES!!!!

I hope you find your kitties.

 

[chandab]

This is going on the craft fair thread too, but thought I'd share here as well.

Here is a little quilt I made with Quest for a Cure pink ribbon fabric from Northcott. [its about 42x50".]

 

[AnnaC]

It's fabulous Chanda, but then your quilts always are.

 

[chandab]

Thank you. I think its cute. Didn't know if I'd like an all pink quilt, but it turned out pretty good.