# the missing kittens

Category: Animal House

## Post 1 by rishie1 (Newborn Zoner) on Saturday, 04-Mar-2006 10:08:43

hi!
Our cat had kittens on Friday night, but we don't know where she had them, or even where she put them. Last time this happened we found them in the bottom of my wardrome so that was one of the first places we looked this time but they weren't there. We found 1 of them in the front room and we put it with it's mother in a box in the bathroom. We don't know if there are more, or where they might be. Hopefully we will locate them in the next days.
Rishie

## Post 2 by Musical Ambition (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Saturday, 04-Mar-2006 12:33:57

Watch to see where the mother cat goes. Keep a very close eye on her. She will go to wherever her kittens are, so that she can check on them, feed them, clean them etc. She will lead you to them. you just have to keep a very close eye on her.

## Post 3 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Sunday, 05-Mar-2006 7:31:22

awww. poor kittys. hope they return

## Post 4 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Sunday, 05-Mar-2006 9:55:18

unless she has abandoned them which is another possibility, you might want to consider getting her spayed as there are far too many kittens and not enough good homes.

## Post 5 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Sunday, 05-Mar-2006 13:39:54

hmmm, yes, agreed goblin, they may grow up and begin killing the local wild life and this is a real problem in australia, especially if their new owners don't know how to take care of them, i asume you have no intention of keeping the lot?

## Post 6 by bubbygirl (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 06-Mar-2006 7:53:41

rishie what missing kittens? I only see one in the box.

## Post 7 by bubbygirl (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 06-Mar-2006 7:55:28

rishie what missing kittens? I only see one in the box.

## Post 8 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Monday, 06-Mar-2006 8:32:44

I've heard feral cats are endemic in Australia, we have a female ex feral called Morticia, and she is quite capable of decimating the rodent population of Kelvinbridge.

## Post 9 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Monday, 06-Mar-2006 13:44:12

oh yes, they're a big problem here. people just don't know how to look after them properly and they go wild. the funny thing is, is that as more and more generations of feryl cats get born, the bigger they get. I think the Lethco Panther is just a feryl cat that's just oversized.

## Post 10 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2006 6:08:10

I will need to look up this panther, here we have black leopards on the loose, they were released in the 70's and their descendents are thriving.

## Post 11 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2006 6:34:52

Galileo if you go to www.Messybeast.com/giantcats.html you will hear some interesting theories on the big feral cat problem.

## Post 12 by rishie1 (Newborn Zoner) on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2006 14:13:35

hi! I think I heard a kitten crying ytesterday up this end of the house somewhere but I couldnt' work out where it was.

## Post 13 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2006 16:21:41

wow, wasn't there an original scottish wild cat goblin? wasn't there a cat that originated there?

## Post 14 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 09-Mar-2006 6:31:32

Yes but its seriously endangered due to habitat loss, thoughtless tourists wrecking the countryside, and other reasons.Rishel it sounds to me as if the mother is not interested which means these kittens are being neglected, mind you I'd be pissed off if I was her and continually pregnant, do the decent thing and get her spayed.

## Post 15 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Thursday, 09-Mar-2006 6:33:42

absolutely, there really should be some kind of law about it what do you all think?

## Post 16 by Goblin (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 09-Mar-2006 6:34:45

Yes but its seriously endangered due to habitat loss, thoughtless tourists wrecking the countryside, and other reasons.Rishel it sounds to me as if the mother is not interested which means these kittens are being neglected, mind you I'd be pissed off if I was her and continually pregnant, do the decent thing and get her spayed.

## Post 17 by Pink Pineapple (Veteran Zoner) on Friday, 17-Mar-2006 12:32:30

She'll bring them out in the open eventually.
Our cat had kittens and kept them hidden but slowly one by one she carried them out from their hiding place.

## Post 18 by Perestroika (Her Swissness) on Friday, 17-Mar-2006 16:53:26

hmmm, that's if she doesn't abandon them. my cat did that once.

## Post 19 by SensuallyNaturallyLiving4Today (LivingLifeAndLovingItToo) on Wednesday, 29-Mar-2006 20:37:52

You need to stop, "Wondering" where the kittens are, and mount an all out search. That is, if they are not all ready dead, frozen and starved. Many cats just don't make good mothers, just as some dogs, and for that matter, some people don't make good mothers. If you aren't going to get her altered, then it is your responsibility to confine her and her kittens, watch them constantly, and interveen if need be. You need to take her for vet check ups before her next litter, while she is pregnant, if there is a next litter, and you need to go find those kittens, right now! and take them and the mother to the vet. If you don't want to have your cat altered, then you are responsible, fully, wholly, and completely responsible for any kittens she has. If you don't do everything in your power to insure the kittens' survival, and act as responsible and humane cat owners then you, and only you, not the mother cat at all, are responsible for the deaths of any kittens. Cats are just as needy as dogs or human children. Just because they can be independent and alouf at times doesn't mean that we can just put down some food and water, and clean their box out once a week and forget about them. They should be groomed, yes, even short haired cats, once a day, their water should be changed dayly, and their food, if not dayly, at least weekly. nutritional supplements to dry food such as, canned food, liver, cooked eggs, or pultry and fish should be offered biweekly. Cats can be trained, and should be. They need to be played with on a dayly basis. Their claws should be clipped once every two or three weeks, and the standards of care increase ten fold with kittens, who need to be cleaned, beginning after two weeks, fed supplementally if the mother is deceased, sick or if there are too many kittens. They need to be watched constantly for the first three weeks, in case a kitten should become distressed, and they should not be released to new homes untill at least ten to twelve weeks of age, after you have trained them to use the litter box, to scratch only on cat trees and posts, to respect outside doors as bounderies which they may not cross, occustome them to collars with identification, and perhaps bells, seen that they have recieved their three week, eight week, and ten week vaxinations, and been fully weaned. I can't tell you how angry it makes me to see people with out-of-door cats, un-altered animals who are not meant as breeding stock, declawed cats, or cats and kittens not properly trained. I am cconstantly astounded by the number of people who don't know how to take proper care of cats. Such behavior is neglectful, cruel, and purely inexcusable. There are many great books on the subject, and countless, for the most part, reliable internet sources, and to be uninformed says that you don't care enough about your cat to take proper care of them.