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New to kitten fostering
Hi,
I'm new on rpch+b but I'm an old timer on the dog newsgroups. I'm married, have a 5 year old son, two collies and I've volunteered to foster orphan kittens for our local SPCA. Last week, the volunteer did the home visit and spent an hour going over the fostering program. I was approved and later today I will be picking up three 5 week old kittens. They will stay until they are 8 weeks and 2 lbs. I have a dog crate set up in my studio (a bedroom) with sleeping area, food and litter box. My collies are very mellow and gentle. One is a very dignified 13 year old lady, named Zeffie. My other collie is Pablo, a sweet 6 year old. When Pablo was born, his breeder had a cat ("Aunt Kitty") who was very maternal and would sleep with the puppies and even clean them. Because of his Aunt Kitty, Pablo has warm feelings towards cats and I think he'll be a good "Uncle Pabby" to these new arrivals. I fully expect Zeffie to be appalled by the kitten's antics (how undignified!) and will probably come to me or my DH to tattle and scold. :-) I'm excited to have some kittens visit us. It's been a long time since I've taken care of such young ones. I worked for a humane society way back in '78 to 82 in Iowa. Back then we would sadly get young kittens all the time but unfortunately we didn't have a fostering program. This is a much happier situation. I'll probably have questions in the future about kitten development and fostering. Wish us luck with our first group of babies! Chris and her smoothies, Zeffie and Pablo |
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