We adopted 3 kittens from the shelter and they
Posted By: BTDT on 2005-08-25
In Reply to: My 4-year-old male cat has been sneezing this past week and - Catmom
sneezed like crazy, turned out it was a common infection in shelters, but our vet said to give 500 mg of lysine - we crushed it and mixed it with a tiny bit of canned food to make sure they got it. It really worked. We stopped it a couple of days and the sneezing came back, restarted it and it stopped. They eventually developed the immunities to fight it.
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We adopted a beagle/hound mix from a shelter
He had kennel cough an eye infection & ear infections in both ears. I was appalled b/c this shelter rescued him from a kill-shelter in VA. The shelter we got him from call themselves "Puppy Angels" and they go on & on about how much they love the animals & all they do for them. They told me he was healthy & had been examined by the shelter owner's sister who was a vet & also the other VA shelter's vet. I don't believe that for a second- how could have been seen by 2 vets & never treated? Anyway, he is fine now. We clean his ears periodically to prevent infections, the kennel cough is all cleared up & his eye is fine now, he is now completely healthy. We are so happy we rescued him, he's made such a wonderful addition to our family. He's incredibly loud & very hyper but he's also the sweetest dog I've ever met. He's our baby! 
kittens
IMO, as long as she is safe and comfortable in the sack, I would put it in one of the boxes that you set up for her. Just make sure she can get in and out. If she's not happy when all is said and done she'll move them to another place. You just might have to play hide and seek when you get back from town today.. lol You can email me if you'd like. I used to be a Vet Tech and am the proud gramma of nine 10-day-old Rotties. We lost 2 :(
kittens
Don't you just love them!!! We once had a cat who delivered 2 and labor stopped. By the next day still nothing more had happened and she was walking around like everything was fine. She was definitely still pregnant so I took her to the vet and he did a C section and hysterectomy. There were 3 more babies!
Please take her to a "No-Kill" Shelter!
Otherwise, the animals are usually put down after only a week and 1 week really isn't long enough to get the dog adopted. So Please only bring the dog to a "no-kill" shelter! 
Rescued a pair from a shelter in Oct....sm
Black and tan. They are 1-1/2 and have been together since they were pups. She (Georgia) had his (Duke's) puppies not too long before we got them. I think the poor things were abused though. They are mini's. He's very timid, she's a little territorial. They are coming along nicely and enjoy their new home. However, they were never housetrained very well. Anyone have any ideas on how to get them housetrained. Not sure how much longer DH will let me keep them if I can't get that part under control. We all just love them to pieces, but the not being housetrained is getting old. Any suggestions?
We adopt kittens and the last ones
got some sickness that is normal to shelter animals. What helped a lot was lysine. Seems crazy I know but it helps with the immune system. We put crush it in their food, but with a dog you could probably give in a piece of hot dog. It took about 2 days and they were significantly better. We also had an adult cat that started coughing violently like she was trying to cough up a hairball. This seemed to be mostly a stress reaction as she didn't care for the new additions and if they got anywhere near her she started coughing. We first did a course of antibiotics with very minimal relief and when the antibiotics stopped the coughing started back. We then did another course of antibiotics and a course of prednisone and that has stopped the coughing. We had to do a maintenance dose of prednisone for life as they decided she probably had stress-induced asthma and that if we totally discontinued the pred that another flare would be harder to treat. We're about 6 months into treatment and so far so good.
Sounds like you have your hands full.
Kittens being born..HELP...
any advice on what to do with these kittens? Mom has decided to have them in a paper grocery bag (did not like any of the places we had set up for her!) She is just a kitten herself, a stray who showed up pregnant. One has already been stillborn, not sure how many more to follow! I know to keep the other cats away from her, but I have got appointments in town all day and can't just have her in a paper sack? Is it okay to put her and the sack into one of the boxes or what? Any help would be appreciated...TIA, the new grandma!
Our shelter is horrible. A year ago we fostered
a litter of 3 kittens who were sick. We had to keep taking them back to the shelter because otherwise we would have to pay the vet fees. One of the kittens I zipped up in a fleece jacket and had it with me 24/7 for 2 days because I just knew she was going to die. We ended up taking them to our vet and getting some good care. We took them back to the shelter to be adopted when they were well and our hearts were broken. Two years ago we had our 16-YO cat put to sleep due to FIP, not before we spent $5,000.00 on her because our vet at the time wouldn't tell us there was no hope. We didn't feel we could afford more vet bills but we had a hole in our heart and thought fostering was the answer. We ended up going back and adopting all 3 and were glad the litter wasn't bigger than it was - LOL. We routinely take cat food and litter to the shelter, but we no longer foster and it breaks my heart to see the condition that these animals are living in. Unfortunately it really isn't the shelter's fought, it is the pet owners who refuse to spay/neuter their pets that create the problem.
I will not take this dog to the shelter, would have done that already if I didn't truly care about her. We've coped for 5 days, we can cope for a couple of more until I can find her a loving home. If there were any way we could keep her we would, but we just can't, for lots of reasons, and it isn't fair to her, or my children who have fallen in love with her.
Congratulations! I am waiting on kittens....
I live in the country, some neighbors moved and left 7 cats, one being female, who is pregnant. Poor little thing only has one eye, but she sure is cute! Have taken her in to show her a bit of TLC, now the wait for her brood! They will all be neutered in the next 2 weeks and she will be spayed after her kittens are here. One good thing though, we have no mice!
Update kittens....we thought there were 3...
but apparently there are only 2 (it was pretty early in the a.m., had not had both my eyes open or coffee at the time!) they seem to be ok, but mommy is my shadow when I am home. Is this usual? Mom stayed with them all last night, but now is out and about. They are still in the grocery sack, so for now we call them Paper and Plastic! They are cuties!
I have experience with children and grandchildren, but not kittens! Thanks to those who have responded with much appreciated advice! Keep it coming if you think of anything else!
Married or adopted?
...not to stir the pot, but if you are married it should be a compromise. If in the end your furthering your education benefits you both, can't see how he could object. Try sitting down and showing the pros to this side of the coin. If he does not budge, well, go any way. Ask friends to help with the babysitting.
P.S. - he's WRONG ABOUT OUTSOURCING. The sky's the limit here - nothing will stop outsourcing as long as there are HUGE profits to be made.
We adopted our two daughters through...
the foster care program in California. If you would like to know all about it, both positive and negative, please e-mail me. I really don't want to share the whole story on a public forum.
utahwest@hotmail.com
Such gloom and doom. Better head for the bomb shelter.
heh heh
We adopted 3 feral cats and one of them won't use the litter box
all the time. She uses it sometimes, just not all the time. We have 2 litter boxes and she always goes in the room where the boxes are, sometimes actually touching the box and once she went on the actual box of litter. They have all been spayed, put on antibiotics in case of infection, we have tried 3 different litter boxes, various litters, keeping them cleaned,etc. and nothing seems to work. It seems to be only 1 of the 3 cats and she may go a few days and do okay but then we find or smell a surprise. Our vet has no clue and I've read and tried various things I've found on-line.
No, but thought about it also as we too just adopted 2 dogs recently.
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p.s. I do have 2 feral cats I adopted and they love it indoors. sm
They are the sweetest little girls, littermates.
AAMT 2nd ed. finally adopted the rules the AMA and CBE style guides
use numerals (except at beginning of sentence). It conveys numerical information quickly when one sees the numbers rather than the word.
I don't know of a standard national font and size.
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