Be Excellent To Each Other

Two months old she estimates. Or thereabouts. Any ideas what to do? To keep it safe and healthy, because it's only little. Small creatures much be protected from harm.

(I have to add that's she is in rural Ireland at the moment, and we only have phone contact. I don't have a photo of the kitten because it'd take too long to upload one via the 3rd world dial up connection over there.)

The logical answer here is to first get in touch with a veterinarian so that they can check it over and make sure it's not carrying any infectious diseases that could be carried to humans.

And then to the RSPCA? And/or local cat shelter, the nice kind that don't hurt cute lil' kittens.

Tautologous statement, proven by the fact I've felt no urge to set fire to any cats lately.

I actually like Hobgoblin....there's not much I don't like in terms of alcohol

Newcastle Brown is great aswell at the moment...as is San Miguel..

OK, I think the vet option might be do-able, as she has been left some money and a phone number just in case. It's a bit limiting as she's in the middle of nowhere, in a different country. It's as rural as it gets out there apparently.

Poor little kitten. It's only little.

A hessian sack, some bricks and a river should do the trick.















I joke!

I was going to make a similar joke in my original reply, but then realised that I am quite attached to my penis and would like to remain so.

I believe standard procedure is to take photos of it, put humourous captions on them and upload them to websites. Other than that, I can't really help you.

Those piercings are more trouble than they're worth.

One of the most traumatic moments in my life was when a friend told me to cuddle a kitten in the MUD Metaverse which resulted in a graphic description of the character smothering the life out of the poor thing. I know it was a virtual kitten and all that but it totally fucked me up for ages. I love cats so much.. I find it hard to pass one in the street.. I must stop and say hello. Far more civilised than mutts.

I think if I saw someone kick a cat I'd kick them in the face with a knife.

nope that sounds perfectly reasonable. While I joked before, I do love cats.

That's the issue of Gaz's penis sorted... now any ideas about the lost kitten?

Seriously, how has this thread got beyond 5 replies?

And for a third and final question, how is "Cats are so much nicer than humans" tautology? Is the implication meant to be that everything is nicer than humans? (no, that's not a 4th question, it's more of a question 3[b]).






I might upload a screenshot of my signature and put it here actually... then my signature would be my signature! How funny would that be?!?!?11/?!?

hehe, no I've been looking out for a kitten for a while, but I wont buy one from a shop. I often hear of people having unwanted kittens but previously I've not been in a position to have one, so I'm waiting until then, rather than encouraging shops to sell them.

Pet shops, unless they specialise in a particular animal, generally mistreat their stock as they just don't have the time or inclination to look after them properly.

It is for this reason that, when I eventually get around to buying my pet tarantula(s), I will be buying from an online stockist that deals solely in eight-legged freaks, rather than the local pet shop which probably fails to understand the nuances of caring for a hairy arachnid beastie.

It seems so isolated out there (checking on Google Earth) that the kitten might well have not had any human contact before. It might well be the offspring of wild domesticated cats! Perhaps. The poor creature can't back here though due to quarantine laws. And the whole allergy aspect.

Unfortunately, I gather this to be true having known someone who worked for one of those awful supermarket-style pet shop chains.

Some staff in those places are the ones who really want to work with animals, and are really good. Too many staff, of course, just want any old retail job.

Oxymoron?

Nah. Animals of the species felis catus (domestic cats) which are out in the wild could safely be described thus. Or so I assume.

Personally I'd always plump for getting an adult cat over a kitten. They're less trouble, you can tell what they're going to be like in three years, and they're far more often left to sit in a shelter for their whole lives because they don't look as cute.

There's also far less chance that they'll turn out to have loads of serious and expensive medical problems, because they'll have mostly manifested themselves earlier Plus I like having pets that can take care of themselves if necessary.

If I ever get a cat it will be from a the rescue home, or somewhere similar. I don't even mind if it's an old one because I'll still get a few years of friendship from it, and it'll be able to live out its life happily.

My girlfriend comes from rural Ireland and finds kittens every time she goes back there. It's apparently a prime dumping area for cats and dogs so there's always strays wandering about, and kittens emanate from the tumbledown farm buildings all the time.

Two years ago we drove across, and she found a very tiny black kitten behind the back door of her parents' house, reckon the mother cat had decided it wasn't going to survive and carried it there. Thing seemed half dead but we gave it little bits of food and stuff and it started staggering about and meowing. When we were due to go back it was a bit stronger so my gf insisted on taking it with us.

We were the only car to be stopped coming off the ferry (this was my very old, extremely battered estate car at the time). The customs people had a poke about and asked where we were going and so on, and miraculously the kitten hid under the passenger seat and stayed quiet.

For some bizarre reason we then decided to continue with our original plan instead of driving straight back home, which was to visit a couple of places in Wales, including camping in fields, loading the car up to the roof with solar panels, and breaking down and having to scavenge parts to go again. So we did that, letting the kitten out to run about occasionally, and it was happy enough.

The kitten turned into a mostly blind and somewhat daft cat which claws at you until you give her toast with peanut butter and marmite, but I'm glad we rescued it anyway.

Hmm, there's going to have to be some mighty fine posting today to top Kalmar's tale there. It's pretty much got everything I look for in an internet post.

I'm allergic to cats. This is heartbreaking, as I love them so. From the age of ten through to the start of university I had a pretty much permanent cold. And my mum and dad had a cat. I'd head off to uni, the cold would dry up, come back for the hols and the cold would be back again. A few years later the cat died, and the cold got better but never fully went away.

Now living down in Cardiff in a catless house things are better. However, my two colleagues behind the music desk are both multi-cat owners (insert stereotypical librarian=spinster joke here) and thusly I tend to sneeze a little now and again still. Also, I went to a houseparty last week at a friend's, and she has an adorable kitten called Aisha. I played with the kitty and started sneezing badly. Still, somehow worth it.

My cat was called Jaffa. He was a fat cat, and lazy, and not terribly affectionate, but I loved him. He became affectionate towards the end in his final months though.

Mayaa

It can be handy to have a cat from being a kitten but the best cats are those that choose to come and live with you as you know for sure they're compatible. It took a long long time for my cat, Lamia, to get used to living with us. For the first few days she hid under a bed and wouldn't come out. Now we quite often wish she would go and hide under the bed for a few days and leave us alone..

if I could have a cat just like my mate's one then that'd be ace. cutest cat ever, it just sits on or next to you on sofa whoring it up for strokes. I can spend like an hour playing with that cute little bastard.

however, most cats seem to be of the sharp, unpredictable variety. less cute, more re-decorate-your-home-y-and-scratch-you-about-the-face-y.

Siamese are awesome cats but I know people who won't let them out for fear of them being stolen, which is no way for a cat to live.

Our cats are ace, just bog standard short haired things, one black and one black and white. They're brother and sister and they have never bitten or scratched anyone apart from each other sometimes. They pretty much give each other lots of space but at the same time if either hears the other in any kind of distress like fighting with another cat they move in faster than I've ever seen cats move. And when the girl went missing for a couple of days her brother was either out looking or wouldn't take his eyes off the cat flap. He looked visibly crestfallen the whole time and then seemed to make a show of being completely uninterested when she turned up again. Cats are magnificent creatures.

I'd do worse than that if you tried to give me peanut butter and/or marmite.