New foster cats arrived

[chemenger]

Picked up our new fosters last night. Turns out they are brother and sister rather than the two boys I expected. She is a petite torte and he is a long slinky ginger and white. Both friendly and fairly confident. Unfortunately he has has had a bad flea allergic reaction and has an area of badly infected skin on his tummy. He's has an antibiotic jab and some steroids so it should clear up fairly quickly. They can't be rehomed until we're sure he is on the mend. The vet said that another charity he works with would have put him to sleep rather than treating him.
I have currently lost him but she is snuggling (please excuse the mess in the background. I can't tidy up, I have a cat on my knee!).

I hope you advised the new family to come to the Litter Tray if they wanted to talk about things?

I foster and mixing is allowed when the kittens are a bit older, so I suppose it would depend on the policies of who you foster for.

I've had groups of very young kittens (2-3 months old) and they have to stay closed in the kitten nursery spare room but when they get a bit older they are allowed out into the whole house gradually and after a few weeks at 4/5 months old they can go outside.

But we have microchip catflaps so can prevent access to the outside world individually and live in a very safe area with almost no traffic and lots of safe outside space for them to explore.