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Caring For Orphan Infant Kittens
With all our success in getting the feral cats fixed through our local SPCA Feral Cat program, there were three females we were unable to catch. The first one to have a litter had 3. She was extremely flighty and elusive. Lo and behold, she got pregnant again...
Qualities of the Feline Mom (Queen) – The Not-So-Good
Ok, so we have good Cassie and supreme Lizzy Puff. Then there is Pete (named as a kitten before her sex was determined!). Pete had 6 kittens a few days or so after Lizzy Puff. However, Pete – super flighty – had her litter somewhere in our storage room up in the...
Qualities of the Feline Mom (Queen) – The Good
So, Cassie had 3 kittens then, a week later, Lizzy Puff had 6. The third uncaught mom, Pete, also had 6 kittens a few days after Lizzy Puff. The difference in these three moms is fascinating. Very much like humans, I guess. This post is about the good...
Feral Cat Clinic – Catching The Cats
Our local SPCA has a feral cat clinic 2 Sundays a month and the cost is quite nominal – though with the numbers we were dealing with, it was still a lot of expense! My first clinic appointment was for 6 cats. Actually, my very first one was for 6 and I only caught 1....
New Born Kittens
In our quest to get all the feral cats fixed, we still have at least six left, possibly seven. The year-old Cassie is one of them, a pastel gray tortoise, and, though she lived in the back yard and even frequently slept in my office (accessed by the doggie door)...
Dew Claws
Our foundling puppies had their dew claws – all four legs! - when we found them. Having always gotten puppies from a breeder, dew claws were always removed. We thought we’d have the boys’ dew claws removed when they went in for neutering. Alas, such was not the case....
Are You The Alpha Dog?
Are you a dog owner? If so, are you the alpha dog? You need to be, whether you have one dog or several. And, no, I am not advocating biting your dog’s ear like in “Snow Dogs” but your authority needs to be established. There are some good articles out there to tell...
Burned Pet Tongues
We had a terrible event over Thanksgiving weekend. My darling Sophie (my precious black kitten) got her tongue burned very badly. We were having TG on Friday due to schedule issues with our boys. We made spaghetti on Thursday night and put the can of hot grease from...
Cap With LED Lights -Why didn’t I think of that?
Here at Keller Farms, the winter marks many hours of no daylight being outside tending to horses or cats or dogs. Anyone who has had to feed or water or check on horses in the dark knows how difficult it is to do it with a flashlight! Having to hold a flashlight takes...
Neutering And Spaying Your Pets
Dealing with all these feral cats has made me a bit more mindful about “fixing” cats and dogs. Out of all these feral cats I have, I was only able to get one in a cage and take in to the SPCA. It was Bear. He is wary of me now and the others I tried to catch are...