Margaret's Musings on Cats

Articles in the ‘Helping Strays’ Category

Beginning Introducing FIV+ Bruce and the Other Cats

Beginning Introducing FIV+ Bruce and the Other Cats
May 26, 2003
My other cats are accepting Bruce being behind the closed doors.  They want to go in that room, but when I crack the door and they spy Bruce, they quit being so eager to go in.  My three [...]

Bruce Adjusts to Life Indoors

Bruce Adjusts to Life Indoors
May 25, 2003
We moved Bruce into the master bedroom which is larger and has more amenities (the Catio clear lucite window “extension box”, and the “front porch within a porch”, which is like a closet only the top of the walls are lattice above the perching shelves).
He sprayed my dresser, the [...]

Bruce is FIV positive, moves inside

Bruce is FIV positive, moves inside
May 22, 2003
My sweet, gentle, homeless cat Bruce got tested a little while ago and while he does not have feline leukemia, he does have FIV. So sad. I hadn’t had him tested when I took him to be neutered. Right now he does not have [...]

Bruce Friendly- Wants Inside

Bruce Friendly- Wants Inside
May 21, 2003
Bruce is taking things into his own hands regarding getting acquainted with my cats. Today, while Bruce was hanging out in the backyard with me, he walked up to the latticed-in back porch where Simon and Jolie were peering out. He made that friendly “mrrruh” purring/trilling noise at [...]

Bruce Makes Front Porch His Home

Bruce Makes Front Porch His Home
May 19, 2003
The stray cat Bruce that I took to be neutered has now definitely made my front porch his home. He is there a lot. I put Simon’s large bed on top of the little porch chest Bruce took to sleeping on, and Bruce loves it. He [...]

Stumpy Bruce

Stumpy Bruce
May 1, 2003
There is a tail-less Tom cat who has been coming round to eat where I left food for the strays. I call him Stumpy. He let me walk right up to him and pet his head while he ate today! I had never come within 10 feet of him before, [...]

White momma cat is tame!!

White momma cat is tame!!
April 26, 2003
The mother cat let me pet her today!  Demanded I pet her!  She is tame!  Thank God, so now I can easily get her to the vet to be spayed in a mere cat carrier, as opposed to trapping her, and she certainly could be rehomed as a true [...]

Infant Kittens Returned to Their Mother

Infant Kittens Returned to Their Mother
March 24, 2003, 2:00 PM
The kittens are still doing fine. They never wake up meowing to eat though, so I wake them after 6 hours. Once I start rubbing them, the get to wiggling and squirming and start mewling. Maybe that is a safety thing in nature with the very young infants whose eyes [...]