Tater and his brother, Booker, were left locked in a condo for almost two weeks with not enough food or water. Fortunately, the vile person that left them left the toliet lid up so when the cats ran out of water in their dishes, they were able to drink from the toliet. Less than ideal, but it kept them from getting dehydrated.
Unfortunately, there was not enough food either and the boys lost quite a bit of weight. Tater lost 4 pounds which is 20% of his original body weight. The cats' fur literally jumped with fleas when they were taken from the condo. The fleas were so bad, the cats have sores all over them. Oh, we love Capstar and how quickly it kills fleas!
Booker was seen by the vet yesterday and is going to live with a friend of a friend's aunt. Tater was taken into our adoption program last night and has an appointment today for the works at the vet. He will be available for adoption but it may be a little while. He needs to get a clean bill of health by our vet and time to adjust. Tater seems afraid to be left alone - understandably so.
Tater is a very handsome medium haired buff tabby and is front declawed.
(Some names have been changed to protect the innocent victims of domestic abuse.)
Meet the "Oakville Five". These kittens were dumped at Oakville near Warrenton, NC. They were dumped near a very busy intersection and would have surely been hit by a car soon. The rescue's adoption program is technically full unless we get more foster homes (and money), but there was no way I could leave these sweet babies.
They are about 10 weeks old and very sweet. No names yet as they really are almost identical.
You may notice the rather "interesting" cage decor at the bottom of the cage. Well, yesterday the monkies staged the "great escape". The kittens are small enough that they were able to squeeze through the bottom rungs of the cage so I cut up my old Diet Coke boxes and duct-taped them to the outside of the cage. Very bag-ladyesque, but effective (and it also keeps them from losing all their toys through the rungs).
Today, they were given their first bath with both anti-fungal shampoo and Dr. Bronners Peppermint Soap. The anti-fungal shampoo is just a precaution against ringworm or other skin fungi and the Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap helps kill fleas (they will be given Revolution after three days [waiting three days is necessary since they were just bathed today]). The kittens were dewormed and given their first vaccine today. As you can tell, one of them didn't think too much of the whole process! They seem to have gotten over being upset quite quickly as they are currently playing with all their toys and snuggling with their stuffed animals (kittens can never have too many toys)
They are currently living in an extra large dog cage in my "cat free living room"; however, I am currently searching for foster homes for these munchkins.
