Cats for Adoption: Kitty Girl
My sites may have been offline, but I’ve still been helping a few people with fostering!
This is Kitty Girl, a friendly outdoor kitty we brought in to foster in March. Quite a difference from her early days! Her caretaker is a woman I worked with a few other times, beginning in 2021. Here’s her story from the beginning.
March 13: Clearly friendly, possibly pregnant?
March 13: Skeptical Kitty is skeptical, and she is also safe inside. We’re having a little trouble convincing her of that, but she seems to be adjusting well. And of all else that we tried, she ended up walking in the front door.
She showed up at her caretaker’s about a month ago. Caretaker had taken her outdoor kitty inside for winter and to stay so she wasn’t feeding regularly anymore, but this Kitty wanted some food so Kitty got some food. She started visiting more often and hanging around and seemed somewhat friendly, like socialized friendly.
She brought a couple of intact males with her a couple of times and then she disappeared for a week. When she came back the raccoons discovered the food too, and the trap that had magically appeared. The raccoons went in the trap, Kitty did not. And she still showed up for food but the four raccoons and even a skunk really put her off. So her caretaker started only putting the food in the trap when she was there, but she was still having none of the traps.
The caretaker’s Persian kitty Noah would sit at the door and it seemed Kitty really liked him, Noah is known to be a magnet for scared kitties. We decided to feed her outside of the trap whenever she showed up, and the raccoons hadn’t gotten that message. She would hang out for about an hour, communing with Noah, and even approaching the caretaker and rubbing on her legs and stepping in the door.
We were concerned that she was pregnant and wanted to get her in as soon as possible. Getting rid of the raccoons by stopping feeding for a week or two was not an option. So caretaker put away the traps and by the third try Kitty walked far enough in the house for her to close the door.
She had closed off areas you wouldn’t want a kitty to get into. Kitty hid in a spot we could work with, behind a piece of furniture. I held the carrier at one end and the caretaker nudged her along from the other and kitty eased into the carrier with hesitation. It only took a few minutes.
Surgery tomorrow then to a foster. Great job by her caretaker! Yay, Kitty!
March 14: no spay appointments
March 14: I couldn’t get a spay appointment for our little girl yesterday so the caretaker and I set her up in a crate in her house so she can just chill until next week.
This is after an hour in the crate, and am I surprised she looked fairly relaxed. A real princess, no?
She’s doing well today, eating well, moving around in there, a little concerned about the wand toy, not making any moves for affection, but clearly comfortable with her surroundings. We’ll see how she does in a couple more days.
Once inside, she didn’t appear to be pregnant nor in heat, so we decided to let her chill and re-adapt to living indoors. It’s interesting, a few of the photos her caretaker had sent she clearly looked as if she had bulk in her belly, and she was ravenously hungry. We wondered if we had misjudged the photos and her behavior, and if something had happened when she disappeared for that week. We will never know, but cats are resilient.
In the crate the first week she began to trust her caretaker from outdoor life and was obviously a friendly socialized cat.
March 31: Kitty Girl is adjusting well
At the end of that week we moved her to another foster who had a basement bathroom for her to live in rather than a crate so she could have a more comfortable experience. She had a few rough days at the beginning, trying to get back outside and not welcoming interaction, but as a week went by and then another it was clear she was willing and doing her best to adjust. We changed her situation in the foster room as she changed. She can still be skittish and also overstimulated with petting but we learned to read her signs.
March 31: Kitty Girl is just about ready for adoption already!
Look at her now. One of her foster’s friends came over and was able to pick her up. When I saw her today she was skeptical when I first came, then she was ready for action. She loves her foster but I would do too. Lots of petting, and I did eventually pick her up and put her on my lap sitting on the floor, and she settled in.
She will see the vet soon. I’m glad we gave her time to socialize and accustom herself to humans again before she had that scary experience.
We are looking for eventual adopter or placement with a rescue.
Yay for people who foster!!!!
Today: She hasn’t had her veterinary appointment yet, but that will be soon.
Help a foster! Interested in adopting?
Donations for her care and feeding are always welcome. Not everyone who is willing to foster can afford to feed and have veterinary care for another cat, and I don’t like to ask someone to foster if I can’t help them with the costs. And both the caretaker and the foster have brought in other fosters since Kitty Girl. You can donate through The Creative Cat on this page: https://thecreativecat.net/welcome-to-the-creative-cat/about/support-the-creative-cat/
If you are interested in meeting her or adopting, please let me know! Email bernadettekazmarski @ comcast dot net.
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She’s so beautiful. I know she’ll find the purrfect forever home.
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And such a nice girl now that she’s settled, though might still be a little skittish. How such a nice kitty ended up outside, who knows?
She is a pretty girl. I hope she gets her forever home soon.
Yes, I hope she adjusts to being around new people.