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Am I mad to foster two mums with litters?

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chemenger · 16/11/2017 19:35

I have been fostering for a year, just adult cats. I let the cats have the run of the house, I don’t have cats of my own. We have two female cats coming in, one with three 3 week old kittens, the other pregnant. Am I insane to consider this? I’m at work all day most days. A complication is that I am a 30 minute drive from the vet we use. I need to decide soon, the thought of kittens in the Christmas tree is so tempting...

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Vinorosso74 · 01/12/2017 13:47

Oh dear, probably for the best he's going soon!

chemenger · 02/12/2017 11:29

Pill 1 - hidden in cheese, eaten with great gusto, now runs away from cheese as though it is possessed by the devil.
Pill 2 - hidden in a soupy Webbox treat, lapped up its enthusiasm, followed me round in the hope of getting more, now looks at me as though I am offering him poison.
Pill 3 mashed in small amount of soupy treat and smeared on his paw, reluctantly licked off. I’m willing to bet if I try that again he will just walk around with a dirty paw and a tragic expression.
Thankfully his bite looks clean and uninfected so his new mum can pick him up tomorrow.

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chemenger · 03/12/2017 11:43

Pill 4 - repeat of crushing and smearing on paw. Very offended look (he has some oriental ancestry somewhere, so does offended very well, glaring down his very long nose).
Pill 5- painstakingly broke open Dreamies and shoved half a pill in the soft centre, fiddly but he ate them up.

I had bought some primula cheese spread in a moment of inspiration but he stops being my problem in around an hour so we will never know if it would have worked.

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chemenger · 12/12/2017 21:16

Final update, all three have gone to new homes. The one who went first was the dominant one, once he went the other two had a great time playing together without him putting them in their places all the time.

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