Angels Kittens have eye infections

To all our Furry Friends and their Humans,

Please tell Cat blogosphere that Katiez Furry Mewz has been down since Saturday night. Bad Storm, Lightening - phone and internet dead. Prob won't be back up til Friday. Leaving this msg from library computer.

Angel the Mom cat lost three kittens. She and the surviving four are with a foster mom now whose uncle is the head vet at our local zoo.  (three white (2 male 1 female), One black male.

But kittens have eye infections (only a week old) and one of the white kitten boys has very bad infection in left eye - may lose his sight and possibly need surgery later to remove.  Foster Mom has contacted uncle today for advice and help with treatment.

One good thing - foster Mom is thinking of keeping the kitten with the bad eye .

plz pray for Angel and her kittens.

Will post photos after phone line is repaired.

Purrz, Katie Kat.

Taking Angel to Emergency Vet

Taking Angel to the Emergency Vet.
She's panting and won't stop.

Thought it was the heat yesterday.  She may be in labor with an 8th kitten that didn't get born.
She's had several antibiotic dosages now.  So something is seriously wrong.

Plz Keep purring and praying.

Thanks,
Katie Kat.

Angel Purrz 4 A Refuge and Joey's Nike Mark

(Sorry so lates... Furry Friends plz email the Mom and her give update fast dat way... Sumtimez wif all us kitties to looks after her gets tired and goes sleepy...  Purrz, Lil Joey)

  

 Taken on August 1st after Angel had at least one dose of antibiotics...
just before getting a bowl of watered down chicken broth.

Dearest Furry Friends and Forever Momz n Dadz, 

Wonderful thing about The Vet Visit on August 1st -- Dr. Brooks called in an antibiotic for Angel to my pharmacy! He prescribed Amoxicillin, which is the main ingredient in Clavamox, the common antibiotic used for dogs and cats. Amoxicillin is on the discount meds list - only 4.00! 

She gets her antibiotics mixed in with a bowl of canned kitten food twice a day. Dr. Brooks also said that he would see if he could find someone who could give Angel and her kittens a refuge. LAPP is too full and the Friends of Felines secretary has not called me back.  

The main challenge right now is that I have no place for her to stay - other than in the kennel cage on the porch.  Yesterday morning, it rained again which helped some with the temp, but still got to 93 around 5:00 pm with a heat index of 103. Thankfully it didn't last long and the cage has a reflective tarp to ward off the heat.  She has a stoneware bowl full of cold water (with ice in the afternoon) and a big bowl of Kitten Chow / Iams mix all the time.  Also giving her extra fluids - home-cooked natural chicken broth with bits of chicken and fat.  Around two this morning (more rain!) she got canned "replacement milk," good for moms too.

But I'm fighting flies and mosquitoes to keep away from her food and the kittens.  Got some fly traps to keep the flies away.  Have one of those candle lights to help with the mosquitoes, but this kennel cage refuge can only be temporary. She has to be moved to a safer environment.

Will be calling Dr. Brooks this morning to find out if he has found anyone and how desperate Angel's situation really is.  I don't believe in coincidences, but do know from experience that God guides his creatures.  There had to be a reason Angel gave birth where we could find her. 

On a less urgent note:

Joey's mark on his back looks more like the Nike logo than the letter 'J.'

 Very interesting.... ???

Thanks for all the purrz for Angel
and all the Katz here at KFM.

Katie Kat.

Angel Mommy Update

A wonderful Vet is coming to see Angel and her kittens.  He will be here in around an hour.  His name is Dr. John Brooks.  He used to have a no kill animal sanctuary called Meadowbrook until he had a stroke in 2011.  Dr. Brooks is the vet that took Daisy May Daffodil when she was too stressed out and she needed a calmer environment


Now Dr. Brooks does Veterinarian house calls. 

More update furry soon.

URGENT POST Another Mother Cat Had Kittens

Among the kitties who stop to eat from the outdoor food bowl on my brother's porch, a white pregnant cat started visiting about a week ago.  She was soo large, I was sure she had at least six kitties and would soon give birth.  Last time I saw her was around Monday...  so hoped she had gone somewhere to have her kittens and we'd see her soon.  Hoping she had gone next door at the empty garage where Yubi had her kittens (Joey, Lulu, Pattie and Laura).

 
Well it's been raining and raining here in Kansas for about a week now.

The rains finally let up enough to mow the lawn. 
Yesterday evening, Brother goes outside to get the yard ready....lifts up old couch overturned near garage (needs chopped up for the trash service to take it away....),

Mother cat, now known as Angel and seven new born kittens were under there, lying in the grass.  They had to have been born sometime yesterday... 

She took off across the street and waited to see what we were going to do.

My brother came running into the house to get me...And we proceeded to take the kittens, put them in a clean carrier - no door, then put the carrier in the big kennel cage and we put the cage in the same spot we found the kittens.  I tied a rope to the door to the kennel... put some food in the cage and waited.... Eventually she went into the cage and I closed the door.

I called two animal care taking orgs in town, Friends of Felines and LAPP.  FOF hasn't called me back, but did get a hold of  Pat at Life Line Animal Placement.  

Even though LAPP already has tons of kittens in foster homes around the city, Pat said she would help find someone who can take them if Friends of Felines doesn't get back to me.  In the meantime, Angel and her kittens are in the kennel on the front porch with a tarp to reflect the sun off the cage.

Angel and her kittens now wait for someone from LAPP or Friends of Felines to take them.   Unfortunately, she has lost two kittens... One seemed to be barely hanging on when we found them... the other was struggling to survive with fluid in its lungs...  (see photo below. The two who went over the Rainbow Bridge are in front part of the carrier.)

Angel appears to have a possible upper respiratory infection going on.  Her eyes look red and swollen. (Possibly from the couch which had become moldy from all the rain.)

I put some penicillin in her food.  Hopefully that will help... No idea how healthy the other five kittens are.. but they do seem to have very powerful lungs.  Of the 5 surviving kittens, at least 3 are mostly white and one black.

Will keep everyone posted on this new situation. 

My brother's neighborhood desperately needs a TNR campaign.  Been speaking to a neighbor who is looking after another mother cat and kittens. According to him, there is another neighbor who actually brought a bunch of male cats into the neighborhood, put flea collars on them and let them loose... haven't substantiated the story yet, but I have seen several "feral" cats with flea collars, including my four rescued kitten's long-haired orange dad.


Hopefully LAPP or FOF can take Angel and her kittens sometime today.  If anyone can donate any money at all, I will give it to whoever takes Angel and her kittens.  I have 25.00 in the kitty emergency fund that was graciously sent via Paypal back when Joey may have needed his hip x-rayed.  Will add that to whatever else comes in.  Thank you for helping Angel.

Longer Letter Later.
Katie Kat.

Purr S.
Ifnz u would like ta help financially with out paypal, plz email and I will send you our snail mail address. (laugh_safely at yahoo dot com)