help my daughter has brought home an injured kitten
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help my daughter has brought home an injured kitten
My lovely little daughter is a hopeless animal lover ,any cruelty to animals breaks her heart,we have 5 baby turtles in the bath at the moment ,rescued from a dried up river and waitng to be transferred by dad to another river.The apartment complex we live in in marbella has lots of stray cats and despite being repeatedly told to leave them alone ,she has been climbing the balconies and taking tins of tuna to a weak little abandoned kitten ,last night she brought it home apparently an adult cat which she thinks is the mother climbed up and began attacking it,although it allows her to carry it is hisses and is aggresive,it is on our balcony at the moment in a little box with food and water,it is strong now .It may be blind in one eye although we are not sure ,its eyes seemed infected ,but my husband has bathed them and they are no longer sticky etc,now the point is everyone says they carry disease and so i dont want to risk Rosie being hurt by it ,but she will never forgive us if we put it back and it becomes harmed any advice on what to do thanks
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Take it to the vet and see if it is infected with anything, get it wormed, vaccinated against feline leukaemia and cat flu and thus give it a a good start health wise and then tell your daughter the kitten has been made well by the vet but needs to find another home now.....although if its declared healñthy and disease free then your daighter would not be harmed by it any more than any other cat unless it has a vicious nature and bites or scratches her. Cat bites are more dangerous.........as so much infection in a cats mouth but if this is an abandoned kitten and your daughter rescues it and cares for it etc then it could turn out to be the best pet ever.....
Good luck
Take it to the vet and see if it is infected with anything, get it wormed, vaccinated against feline leukaemia and cat flu and thus give it a a good start health wise and then tell your daughter the kitten has been made well by the vet but needs to find another home now.....although if its declared healñthy and disease free then your daighter would not be harmed by it any more than any other cat unless it has a vicious nature and bites or scratches her. Cat bites are more dangerous.........as so much infection in a cats mouth but if this is an abandoned kitten and your daughter rescues it and cares for it etc then it could turn out to be the best pet ever.....
Good luck
Cats do not have diseases which are passed to humans. Yes, a cat bite can turn into an abscess so, wash with plenty of saline. Although I doubt that a small weak kitten would be able to exert the kind of damage needed to create an abscess. The hissing etc.. is it showing it's fear and an obvious sign that it has not had much human contact. Once it realised it is being fed and tended it will stop the aggressive behaviour.
I have a cat who I found under a bush in our gardens. He was 4 weeks old, riddled with fleas & ticks & a hissing, spitting bag of bones. I spent 3 days de-ticking him & cleaning him up. Now at 2 years old he is a beautiful fluffy creature who is absolutely devoted to us. Give the poor little thing a chance.
Your daughter sounds exactly like I was as a child
I have a cat who I found under a bush in our gardens. He was 4 weeks old, riddled with fleas & ticks & a hissing, spitting bag of bones. I spent 3 days de-ticking him & cleaning him up. Now at 2 years old he is a beautiful fluffy creature who is absolutely devoted to us. Give the poor little thing a chance.
Your daughter sounds exactly like I was as a child
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Your daughter sounds like mine was. Every school holiday she was the one who brought home all the pets from the classroom, including a chinchilla which was great fun, even when it tried to chew through the wires of the Xmas tree lights. I'd agree with lots of the above. Take it to the vets for a check over and injections if you can. Then food and love and you'll have a wonderful pet as well as a lovely caring daughter.
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keep it, get it spayed?
we´ve taken in loads over time.
the turtles might not be, they might be terrapins... are they in water in the bath? and are they green and black and some with red bits?
terrapins can be very aggressive and the shells are poisonous to touch...
drop them into a pet shop or put them in a proper tank? but they shouldn´t really be handled.
we´ve taken in loads over time.
the turtles might not be, they might be terrapins... are they in water in the bath? and are they green and black and some with red bits?
terrapins can be very aggressive and the shells are poisonous to touch...
drop them into a pet shop or put them in a proper tank? but they shouldn´t really be handled.
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Dont worry too much about the hissing. We rescued a little kitten 8 years ago who hissed from the start and still does but she is a lovely cat and very loving to those close to her.
You must be really proud of your kind and thoughtful daughter, if everyone was like here there would be no problems in this world.
Dont worry too much about the hissing. We rescued a little kitten 8 years ago who hissed from the start and still does but she is a lovely cat and very loving to those close to her.
You must be really proud of your kind and thoughtful daughter, if everyone was like here there would be no problems in this world.
Re: help my daughter has brought home an injured kitten
My first question would be "What are you doing allowing your "lovely little daughter" to climb balconies, isn't a dangerous?charlie2000 wrote:My lovely little daughter is a hopeless animal lover ,any cruelty to animals breaks her heart,we have 5 baby turtles in the bath at the moment ,rescued from a dried up river and waitng to be transferred by dad to another river.The apartment complex we live in in marbella has lots of stray cats and despite being repeatedly told to leave them alone ,she has been climbing the balconies and taking tins of tuna to a weak little abandoned kitten ,last night she brought it home apparently an adult cat which she thinks is the mother climbed up and began attacking it,although it allows her to carry it is hisses and is aggresive,it is on our balcony at the moment in a little box with food and water,it is strong now .It may be blind in one eye although we are not sure ,its eyes seemed infected ,but my husband has bathed them and they are no longer sticky etc,now the point is everyone says they carry disease and so i dont want to risk Rosie being hurt by it ,but she will never forgive us if we put it back and it becomes harmed any advice on what to do thanks
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rosies kitten
hi rosies kitten is doing fine ,although blind in one eye it is fit and well,the terrapins are in a big container on the balcony and she has lots in their tank for them rocks weeds ect,they are not aggressive at all,and she feeds them fresh prawns that her dad has to get from Mercadona,thanks for asking jool.Jool wrote:I´d love to know how your daughter and the kitten are getting along, I think Retrop and Bubba are still out looking for their hearts.............
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