They do love boxes. Lol
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If the cat ever goes back to to the old lady she will probably not notice his nuts are missing.
Since the young tom cat was wandering around fighting all it’s life it is probably positive for Feline Leukemia virus https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/feline-leukemia-virus-disease-complex
I hope your indoor cats are up to date on their FeLV vaccinations.
Tested negative. I have all the ferals I try to save tested. And of course they are. Updated on all vaccines. Have you not read this entire thread? I and others are doing right by other peoples bad choices. I’m not an idiot. Or a novice. My father is a retired veterinarian. I’m dealing with dumped cats. And doing the best I can because the supply of stupid is ENDLESS
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BatCoach, how are Buzz and Marlow? Hope Buzz is eating well and Marlow is healing from her spay. Has it helped her personality at all?
And I am an ICU RN that used to be a vet tech that does not like cats. That is why I have not read this whole thread. Good for you for keeping cats indoors. they kill a lot of songbirds.
Sounds like you made the right career move, then.
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My cats prefer moles.
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Buzz still has me worried. He gained 20g just to lose it again. We had some success with Gerber beef or chicken baby food, but last night I had to syringe feed him goat milk since he wouldn’t eat the baby food which he thought was great on Friday. ugh. #catlogic. I have a roundworm de-wormer shipping in today, so I hop that will help. Despite his stagnate growth he was playing with his siblings this morning. Sully (the other gray) gained a whopping 42g overnight, so I am hoping Buzz will do that too.
Daisy is starting to let them nurse less and less and wants to be let out of the playpen to enjoy her freedom. Sorry girl, I’m still paying you in meals to be a milk bar, so you have to stick around for now.
Marlow is still Marlow, she is healing from her spay and is still a gumpus. Her kids are doing great and eating soft food & experimenting w/ kibble. I will probably release her on Wed or Thursday.
My sweet, shy Sailor Jerry is going to a different foster home tonight. Another volunteer at the rescue has kittens his age and weight. And she works from home so she can spend much more time socializing him than I can. Now that he is vaxed, wormed and his eye has cleared he is ready to get some playmates, which is of course better than being along in a big crate. I admit I will miss our quiet times together. He starts purring the second I pick him up and just wants to be bundled up and snuggle. But this is the move we need to do to get him socialized and adoptable, I know he will love having some playmates.
It is getting harder and harder to get good still shots of these guys - they have springs on their paws and someone set their settings at maximum playful and the switch got jammed.
House Panther Celia: 
Bo Peep 
Sully:
Randal
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And mine prefer the rats that live in the barn.
Never been sure what makes songbirds so much more valuable and off-limits than anything else cats kill. Everything has a place in the ecosystem, after all. It’s not like birds aren’t killed by cars, dogs, tall buildings with glass, poisons, birds of prey, etc.
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Batcoach, damn, I’m sorry about Buzz. We lost a kitten (7 months old) to FIP and having a sick young one breaks your heart. Poor buddy. It’s so hard as they haven’t even started to have a life. When we get settled into our farm, I want barn cats and want to foster (have 3 indoors only kitties now) but I know my heart will be ripped out fostering.
Squeee!!! They are so adorable! I love the naughtiness going on in the background of the second clip. I would never go to work if I had a house full of little imps like them. I just wish they didn’t grow up so quickly.
Jingling for little Buzz. Eat, buddy, you got to eat!
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Impact of cats on birds and other wildlife on an ecological scale
excerpt:
Cats and Birds: A Bad Combination
Outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of extinction, such as Piping Plover.The ecological dangers are so critical that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists domestic cats as one of the world’s worst non-native invasive species
Scientific paper
excerpt:
We conducted a data-driven systematic review of studies that estimate predation rates of owned and un-owned cats, and estimated the magnitude of bird and mammal mortality caused by all cats across the contiguous United States (all states excluding Alaska and Hawaii). We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually, and that un-owned cats cause the majority of this mortality. This magnitude of mortality is far greater than previous estimates of cat predation on wildlife and may exceed all other sources of anthropogenic mortality of US birds and mammals.
While still acknowledging that cats can and do have devastating impacts on birds and wildlife in certain contexts this article attempts to draw attention to some of the nuances and variables that reveal a bit more complicated perspective.
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Aww, the wee monsters! It’s fun to see them doing so well!
I hope Buzz begins to thrive like the others soon. (Fingers crossed the dewormer does the trick.)
This thread has been reminding me how much I enjoyed fostering kittens. It’s hard work, but so rewarding.
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Humans have caused the extinction of at least 680 species since the 1600s. Another 15,000 are critically endangered and will likely become extinct in the wild within the next century. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/paleontology/extinction-over-time
Tall buildings kill between 365 million and 1 billion birds annually in the United States. https://abcbirds.org/blog/truth-about-birds-and-glass-collisions/
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This is Tommy my now nutless wonder… he’s such a good sweet boy. He still hasn’t left my barn since he’s been neutered 
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Gorgeous! Tommy still has his studly Chubster cheeks!
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ohh I love a grey kitty (I guess in the cat world they are known as blue) does he have a stubby tail or is that just the angle?
I dropped Sailor Jerry off at this new foster home last night.
He’s already playing with his new matching foster brothers, so I know it was the right choice.
Fellow foster-mom also gave me 2 products for Buzz. One is Rebound Recuperation for Cats, the other is Miracle vet weight gainer. I gave him a dose of each and saw a huge difference. This morning he was eating his soft kitten food out of a bowl and pinging around with his siblings! YAY!!! lets hope this trend continues.
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Sailor Jerry looks SO much better! You did a great job with him. Good news about Buzz too! I hope he keeps eating and gaining. 
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