Just found a cat and newborn kittens in my garden on a low bench. WWYD??

[Pinot]

Just bread your trip to the vet. My dad always said that the lovely old Tom we grew up with sounded like someone was killing a baby when we took him to the vet. Dad fully expected to be pulled over....

Yours are goooooood. A friend used to tuck his cat inside his jacket and take it on his motorbike; it (seemed to) love it. If they were in the car, the cat would either lie along the dashboard, or just curl up in his lap. He maintained that the cat enjoyed travelling and behaved so well, because it had been being taken along since it was such a tiny kitten.

I used to really want to be able to have a cat that did the same. Not so sure it's a good idea nowadays.

Oh my poor Meow :( She's really not herself today. Off her food, lethargic, clingy. Gingerific is fine...going to spend the day fussing over her.

She has a temperature. Off to the vets at 5.15pm :(

Thanks Stewie. I am fussing like a tart, I know.

Oh no - hope meow is OK and it is just a reaction to the jab.

She's asleep again. She's barely been awake today. She won't eat, won't drink and she's got really hot pawpads and ears. She looks dopey too - she's normally like a Bond villain thinking of her next evil plan - today, she's a shadow. I've googled and now scared myself silly, so I'm going to pace until either DH gets home so I can take it out on him or until the vets can see her.

Poor Meow, hope she is ok.

Back and she's OK. Hot and tired but the vet didn't give her any treatment for it as he said it's better for her body to do it's "thing".

Poor Meow .

She will be too poorly to make Daddy's day things for MrPinot .

A paw print picture of course!

Cant believe ive not read this before! I've just spent the best part of the last 3 hours reading this while DH snoozed rested his eyes on the sofa. Pinot you are an absolute delight. Such enthusiasm and love for those little kittens, and such support and advice from Summerrain and Valhalla just awesome. And all the other MNers too :)
So cool it's become a classic thread too.
It makes me all weepy for the day we found our cat - Chairman Mao - he'd been abandoned and was living in a bin. Within 24 hours he'd cost us £500 in tests, vaccinations and teeth removal for severe gingivitis because he was so malnourished, and we still didn't know if he'd survive or would gave to be put down with cat leukaemia.
9 years on the toothless, feckless fecker is most put out as he can't lie on my stomach anymore because the baby in my bump keeps booting him off it!

get well soon Meow.

Ooh my poor girl! She has been asleep for a while again now but after I updated last I hand fed her some crunchie biscuits and gave her a bottle of milk (still a bit of formula left from weaning last week).

Bless her! The vets are open again tomorrow so I'll take her back if she's not brighter, though she won't want her temp taken again

Thanks all for the hand-holding. Just like the good old (scary) early days!

Had to check in on my way to bed (hangover, early night needed). So glad the vet was not too worried. Does he think it was just a reaction to the injections then?

Have to confess, I have never had any of my cats injected .

Hope she is brighter tomorrow.

Yes, he says a reaction is normal, she's just got it badly. Not an allergic reaction, thank god, as that would have come up within 2 hrs.

Wail - logged on hoping for good news but no update. Hope Meow Catherine is feeling much better and that Ginger is not giving her too much of a hard time.

I'm here! She's much much better today - eaten, pooed, even ran this morning. She still feels reallllly skinny from starving herself yesterday but theres been no temperature so all is OK now :)

Another lurker coming out of the woodwork here - I have loved reading this thread over the last couple of months!

Glad it's just a normal reaction & hope she's back to here old self soon.

Rusty! :)

The kittens have got him socks that say "Best Dad". How original

As I was typing the last post the boys were calling for me - yup, the kittens have got upset tummies. Meow had wet pooed all over the litter tray, and a bit on Gingers ear, and Ginger keeps going into the (now cleaned) box and frantically scooting litter everywhere then crouching and straining. GOD HELP ME when he finally lets rip. If Meow can squirt poo after virtually no food, I shudder at what awaits me with the Ginger one.

they are beyond cute! can't believe how much they've grown.

hope they both feel better soon.