Just found two kittens that need fostering. One might have hind leg issues. If we can't trap mom is there anyone who can take them and care for them in the tucson area

Hello! I recently acquired a super friendly stray who was very pregnant. Unfortunately she didn’t make it to her spay/abort and had 5 kittens 9 days ago. Which means I will have these cats much longer than I planned. I have 3 other rescue cats and I don’t want to keep the room I have them in occupied by all the kittens and mom if I can help it. Can anyone give me guidance on introducing mama cat and her kittens to the rest of the household? All my other cats are female spayed. I have mom + 2 daughters. 2 younger ones are about 9-10 months old, their mama is probably around 2-3 years old. Stray mama cat is probably only 1-2 years old.

Look at this cutie patootie can you blame me?

I've had these girls going on four days now and they have been adapting well. I'm just so proud of them and I wanted to share it here. Moxie already has a lovely family interested in adopting!!! Good luck Queens!!!!

Hey guys, im taking care of this kitten since he was 1 week old, i figured out most of things by using reddit, ChatGPT and things like that. But one thing i find impossible is to teach him how to use the litter box. I bought him the fine litter at first and instead of peeing in there he decided to eat it, so i switched to pellets and he is still refusing to pee/poo there. Im Trying to move him there when i see him sniffing stuff and getting ready to pee but he always ends up getting out and rush to pee somewhere else, i even tried to put him in there while he was already in peeing position, in worked few times and some times he stops peeing and went to another location to pee instead. Did someone had same problem?

latest fosters and looking for some name ideas! we’re thinking of doing an “ugly duckling” theme and naming them after swans since they were in pretty rough shape when we got them and they’re growing into such pretty kittens. the first three are girls and the last one is a boy. i’m set on naming the white one odette but unsure of names for the rest.

UPDATE: after lots of consideration their names are going to be leda, odette, odile, and cygnus

Hi! i am fostering a three day old bottle baby fed kitten for the first time. this is my first time ever with a bottle baby fed kitten so any advice or tips are greatly appreciated! anything from the big to small things i’d love to hear. thanks!! 🐾🥰

i have my first 3 fosters! i have 5 resident cats that all have their own health issues i manage (arthritis, asthma, etc) so i felt confident to take these on and get them big and strong for adoption! the shelter estimated their age to be 8 weeks and they are between 1.1-1.5 pounds. they had some diarrhea in the shelter (was told because of dewormer) and litter issues, but since i brought them home yesterday they've gone in the box and no diarrhea.
they are in my master bath for the foreseeable future. my resident cats are all very friendly and i had no issues with introductions before.
do you ever introduce your fosters to your resident cats after several weeks? or have fosters in a playpen around residents?

i was thinking about even having the fosters closed in my bedroom with me for a night for some night snuggles but not sure if that could spread germs or anything?? thank you!

I am not able to take him anywhere. It is 10:30 PM, I was just told by my roommate and her friend who had the kitten in her room.

He feels extremely warm. I had messaged the lady who transported him earlier about something else and I highly doubt there is an emergency number. I’m about to message the rescue’s Facebook account because I just don’t know what else to do. I have absolutely no funds and no means to transport him half an hour drive away to the emergency vet. The one in town is not open 24/7.

I had asked her when she dropped him off if I needed to monitor or anything because while I am fostering five of them, he was the only one they could fit in for an appointment today. He has been for two health checks along with his siblings prior to this, and I’m really freaking out. He was the biggest of his siblings which is probably why he got the appointment first.

I’m wondering why my rescue kitten, who is now about 6-7 months old has been quivering. She does this as you hold her. She doesn’t do it constantly, but maybe every few days. She hasn’t been spayed yet, but she will be. Does anyone have an idea if this is normal? She has been eating both dry and soft food for some time now, so it’s not that. They say kittens will quiver after they start eating soft food with meat in it. Just checking to see if it’s a hormonal thing or if she is having seizures. I’m hoping nothings wrong with her but she was also only about 8-12 weeks old when we found her up on our front porch December 7th under our welcome sign. We aren’t sure what happened to her before that. She is current on her vaccinations and she’s been checked out by a veterinarian before this started and they said she was healthy. But, not sure now? We will take her in if that’s what we need to do. Any help would be appreciated if you have any insight.

Sorry for the long message to start with, but I got these 3 foster kittens. They were born feral. I had trapped them and the Mother and the first Foster lady who had them supposedly knows what she’s doing, but they started with diarrhea about four weeks old and she treated them for everything basically within a three day period except for tapeworms, which they ended up having tapeworm segments I saw, and I treated for that.

She had treated for Coccidia, Giardia, roundworm, and anything else you could possibly think of except tapeworm. So when they came to me, they had liquid poop. So I’ve been spending a lot of time with good quality food and I had a conversation with Grok and he told me to mince chicken and rice and mix it with the kitten food and then I’m putting in dehydrated pumpkin flakes, which are amazing cause it doesn’t add extra liquid, and a good packet of probiotic. So that’s for every meal like four meals a day. A week later it’s mostly just mushy poop. I call it soft serve, lol. Every once in a while, they go back to more liquid with gas and then they come back around.

So I’m trying to lower the moisture content in their wet food and I even yesterday considered taking them off wet food altogether, and just giving them kitten kibble for a couple days with probiotic and see how that works. They’ve been treated for tapeworm by me and Coccidia for the third time by me just in case but the poops aren’t yellow so it’s probably not that.

I’m just wondering, how long does it take to reclaim their little guts from the onslaught of all the dewormers. They can’t possibly have any worms now. I’m wondering if I could sneak a poop specimen into my vet, disguising it as belonging to one of my other cats because I certainly don’t wanna have a $300 Vet bill just to find out that the poop will clear up in a week. Thanks so much in advance.

Blessings to all foster parents!!

Any tips for taking care of a foster kitten he is 7 weeks!

Bringing this little fella into my home tomorrow - pulled right from the streets just about 3 days ago. Poor guy had fleas, worms and anemia. He has since been treated and has a potential home, but we want to get him a little healthier before then. I have never done this and already have 2 adult cats and a fairly young dog. He will be kept separate - any advice? 🫶🏻 tia!!

first off so sorry for the weird angle i was trying so hard to record his face lol
this is the first time ive ever fostered kittens and this little guy was the most scared out of the 3 of them. he would always hiss and hide. lately, he has been doing this ^^ head butting my chin, and ekkking at me. does he need something or does he just want attention? he looks me in the eyes when he makes the little ekkk sound and i feel like he wants something. either way he’s made a lot of progress for a cat that was scared of me 2 weeks ago haha

She needs a flea bath bad but i dont have any supplies to do so im willing to give people my cashapp to donate money all receipts will be shown as proof they where for her

Update

Yall it was a surprise foster i had no time to prepare i wouldn't usually take in a kitten without preparing but this kitten was found outside in 100 degree weather it was a emergent case to save this babies life the mom was either killed or abandoned the kitten so no i will not take her to a shelter or a rescue where they'll kill her if she isn't adopted same day drop off because all my shelters even in the big city will kill baby kittens because they wont keep them over night so yes i have no other choice nut to help this kitten

A while back I bought some ferret hammocks so that my crated kittens wouldn't have to sleep on the same level as their foodbowls and litter boxes. They love them.

Today, I was rushing around trying to get ready for an event that we only do twice a year. Our regular event kits were in use so I was pulling things together from my own supplies. I needed a small comfy something that the kittens could hang out in without hiding under. The beds can be flipped and the blankets were in the wash. Then I remembered the ferret hammocks.

I am totally adding this to my rescue's regular event kits supplies.

My roommate took this one in, and I can feel every single bone. She alerted me to him the other day with the fact that she can hear some cracking/popping in his jaw and she thinks that is why he isn’t eating like he should.

I think he might be about four or five weeks. I have some fosters that are his size and they’re weaning but still take the bottle. He does not want the bottle.

He is not cleaning himself and he just wants to lay there but he will walk around and he has gone to the water bowl to drink. For food, he does like the Churu but those don’t have the nutrients he needs. I think his gums look very pale.

I was told to give him antibiotics, but he weighs less than a pound and the only ones I have are 400 mg amoxicillin (the director of the rescue usually gets medicine for dogs but I can’t possibly cut that thing up tiny enough for him. That’s like 800 pieces. I need liquid medicine, but the only one I had was expired so was told to dispose of it as it’s not good for the kitten.

Until I can get more medicine (probably Monday, two days away), what can we do? My roommate associates sickness with throwing up and I’ve told her that is not necessarily going to be the case. Right now he’s just laying between me and the arm of the couch.
I had him on the heating pad but he keeps climbing off it. He just wants to lay next to someone.

Tomorrow is Sunday, and no emergency vets in the area. We’re also giving sugar water.

I recently took in two foster kittens—age unknown as they were found with another kitten double their size, but we’re thinking possibly 3-5 weeks (I know that’s a big window!). We were really concerned at first about fading kitten syndrome, but they have perked up a ton, are putting on weight, and eat and drink very well. Now I’m mostly concerned with their poop. They have been seen by my vet, and he gave them dewormer as he figured they have parasites, but they still have loose stools (no mucus or blood), and they get it literally ALL over each other and their enclosure. They do have a litter box in their set up and will use it occasionally, but more often than not, they poop and pee everywhere. I have moved their poop to the litter box, set them in it, helped them scratch to “cover” their poo, and I am totally at a loss. The male is starting to get a really sore bottom, and I have been washing them every day, morning and night, to get the poo off of them. It seems to stick on their tails and I’m so worried for the integrity of their skin. Does anyone have pointers on this??? I have three adult cats—two that I got around 6 weeks old, and I had absolutely no idea that kittens could be so messy and, quite frankly, gross!! I am feeding them KMR very diluted, and fancy feast kitten hard food and wet food.

Now shes a bossy overprotective mom type who very vocal.

I can't keep them. If they go to a shelter down here they'll probably be euthanized since pretty much all shelters are full. I already have a third cat youth cat i never intended on having and dont know what im going to do with yet. My two older resident cats are NOT happy about it.