Caring For Abandoned and Feral Cats

The kitten chow will not get soft in milk. It may, but I don't know how long it would take.

For now, Sassy is lapping up formula from a paper bowl while I hold her. She loves it and is getting good at it.


My son calls her "Stumbly" aka "Little Stumbly Cat"...I think that's kinda cute.

 

crush it up with a rolling pin add milk.

 

Great idea! Thanks, Orison!

 

I used the mortar and pestle like a good witch.

 

Not much in the world worse than cat farts.

 

Years ago when I had a mother cat that decided she didn't need to nurse her kittens anymore when they were just barely a month old, I did that - put kitten chow in watered down milk. I let it sit for maybe 10 to 15 minutes and it was good to go. They loved it.

 

Back when I was feeding BB under the door across the road (while she was still in the building and the sob hadn't "seen the light") I began using my mortar and pestle to grind up cat food and put that on a knife that I would put under the door.

Nightly I slid a firm piece of plastic under the door 1st, and would pour water and skim milk through to her. Then I would start sending the ground up cat food. I think I did kitten chow also because I knew it was high in nutrition and good stuff. I'll never forget how great it sounded to hear her cry back at me when I'd call her name and then to hear her hungrily lap and eat everything I would send her way.

By the end I would go to her around midnight and then again before it got light...

She was there from 12/24/2009 until 1/9/2010.

 

That's love!

 

About kitten food and milk, etc. with adult cats... ALL adult cats are lactose intolerant. Yeah they will love it, but it won't love them back. Kitten food has a high dairy content.



About softening dry food with liquids... 10 seconds in a microwave. I don't know what kind of oils they put in dry foods but it is highly active in a microwave.



My 2 cents for the day.

 

My babies get homemade formula made of goat's milk, full fat yogurt, egg yolk, karo syrup, and water.

 

BTW, this kitten chow is super-charging the kitten! She goes crazy with energy after she eats!

 

Little BB is sitting in my lap right now. She is a bit mean and pretty much rules the roost around here. lol

Back then, she was a a little black bob-tailed cat that had appeared out of nowhere and was walking with me and Jack the insane border collie (rip) in the afternoons. I had begun calling her BB...my imagination was sorely lacking in that name. At any rate, I did note she suddenly wasn't around. I was calling another cat of mine and standing at the end of the drive when I heard her cry. Well, I heard a cat cry from inside that building. I wasn't sure (at that time) it was her but well before she was rescued (after a "talk" a friend of mine had with the person renting that building) I knew.

Yeah, that debacle had a happy ending.

 

Back in the 1980's I lived in Ithaca NY in this large old house that was divided up into four separate apartments. The people who lived in the apartment next to mine moved out and there were workmen coming in to spiff up the place.

One night Purl did not come in. The following morning I was taking the trash out to the street and walked up to my apartment, passing the empty apartment on my way. Movement caught my eye and I looked to see a cat in the window. I thought at first that maybe someone had already moved into the place. And that they had a cat that looked just like Purl. Double take. (it was early in the morning) It was Purl. She must have gotten stuck in the apartment when the workmen were there and they did not notice her when they locked the place up.

When I got home from work Purl was waiting for me on the porch with a long story to tell.

 

The people next door are really nice to my cats and let them wander in and out of their garage. There have been a few times that I've suspected one of mine got locked in their garage for a day or so.

I hope it never happens when they go on vacation.

 

That is the downside to their curious nature. Whenever someone talks of a cat gone missing I always ask them to check out buildings.

That actually happened in the 1980's not 90's. I moved here in 1990 with three cats and had several others since then but since here they don't go outside at all. I live in an apartment building and even if they could go out it just is not safe. Ember my current cat seems quite content to live indoors and watch the world go by past her second story windows.