Update on the stray kitty!

kilikini wrote:
Posted new pix taken this morning. Her belly looks about to burst, but
she's no longer devouring the cat food as if there's no tomorrow. She knows
there's a tomorrow. :~)


Oh, happy girl! This reminds me of when we cleaned up Smokey from a
worm-riddled stray into a handsome fellow who can almost pass himself
off as a Russian Blue.

--Fil

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:07:49 -0500, "jmcquown" wrote:

Thanks. We had a thundestorm tonight so I chose to bring her
inside.
I've
isolated her in the back bedroom. She's sleeping like a baby.
She's
happy.

The old storm ploy - both Little Bit and Spotty used that one on me
to
get me to let them inside LOL Once they made it inside they were
here
to stay, of course. I belive it was four months before Little Bit
would venture out after getting inside, and Spotty still won't come
out when I put everyone's collar on and I take Sammy and LB out for
their supervised visits to the OUT. In fact, I had a break in
recently
and the crooks left the window wide open, and I found Spotty sitting
in the window looking out and not indicating any desire to actually
Go
out.

Well, it's been hours and Miss Pua wants out of the bedroom. She
keeps
trying to escape. So, when she *gets* full run of the house, I'm
wondering
if she'll try to escape from the front door, as well? When she was
out, she
wanted in. I'll give you a report. I'm just waiting for the clean
bill of
health from the vet in a week. Keep your fingers crossed!

kili


I also felt bad when I had to isolate mine when I first got them but
when I compared them being locked in one room indoors to their life
on the street I always felt better.

My babies.

What's funny is for the first year after Persia acquired me (and I didn't
have any other cats), even though she responded to the water-pistol method
of avoiding my birds I didn't trust her. So every morning before I went to
work I went through this routine of carrying her litter box into my bedroom;
carrying her food into my bedroom. Carrying her small cat-tree into my
bedroom. When I got home at night, it was a reverse sequence. I can't tell
you how tiring that was! But I couldn't be bothered if I had to make a trip
to the grocery store or whatever. I finally figured out, she's not
bothering the birds. So I stopped doing that and it's been fine ever since.
She likes to meatloaf in front of Peaches' cage but she ignores Peaches.
Peaches is a lesser being who voluntarily takes BATHS and therefore must be
avoided at all costs

Jill



The gal that took the one stray in had the same problem but she moved the bird cage into
her bedroom until the cat got used to the bird like your did.


My babies
http://users.ameritech.net/lestark/

http://members.aol.com/larrystark/strays.htm

"kilikini" wrote

She's isolated in a bedroom now, but she's wanting to sneak out the door.
My little tuxedo, Chloe, has hissed at her already. Until the vet trip
next
weekend, I have to keep them segregated. Actually, that's a question to
ask..........how do I introduce my current two to her? Any suggestions?

There is excellent advice for introducing a new cat oh the following web
page, it is written for one breed but can be applied to any breed:

http://www.abyssinian-rescue.com/advice.htm

Oh yeah, she's looking more and more Siamese,and very content with her
found lot in life.

You are a very good person.

Jane (of the broken foot)
- owned and operated by Princess Rita

In article ,
kilikini wrote:
Posted new pix taken this morning. Her belly looks about to burst, but
she's no longer devouring the cat food as if there's no tomorrow. She knows
there's a tomorrow. :~)

kili

http://www.geocities.com/kilikini1/newkitty.html