r/FosterAnimals

This kitten IS NOT feral. She’s been hand raised since she was a week old and is perfectly happy in a home—she even chooses to sleep with my younger brother.

That being said, she bites at any little annoyance. She scratches, hisses, and bites hard enough to draw blood if anyone so much as picks her up when she doesn’t want to be picked up. She has the shortest fuse I’ve ever seen on a kitten. She can’t be pet or kissed more than once or twice, and she’s so hard to take to the vet because she becomes very aggressive.

Like I said, this kitten has been in foster care since she was a week old, was bottle fed, and was socialized using all the typical methods. Her first foster returned her to the shelter at 4 weeks due to ringworm and I’ve had her since then.

I’ve been trying to prep her for adoption for ages but there’s no way I can find a placement for her in these conditions.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Meet my new fosters Alice and Archie! They're about a week old. Alice has a missing leg and half a tail. We think maybe mom chewed them off. But she is STRONG and has such a will to live. I cannot wait to watch them grow.

Cynthia had been in my shelter’s system since May as a trapped feral, and when her previous foster could no longer care for her after a month I stepped in. She had fungal and bacterial URIs and has been on multiple medications in the meanwhile. She hadn’t been healthy enough to be spayed until her checkup last week, when they had finally scheduled her!

The thing is that she stopped showing signs of heat around July-August. I just thought that maybe it was more subtle than usual. Then a few days ago she had started eating clay litter. I had to monitor her whenever she went to use the box so she wouldn’t start eating more. Her appetite decreased and she started having trouble breathing the night before the appointment.

I dropped her off and did my best to distract myself, but I still got sent into a panic when she wasn’t awake when I was told to come an hour after the normal pickup time. She did wake up, she just REALLY liked the free, uninterrupted and chemically induced nap. While I was waiting, one of the vet techs told me that they had scheduled her at a great time. When they went to remove everything, they only found half of one of her ovaries/tubes, and maybe some sections of uterus. What was there had started to fill with fluid, the precursor to pyometra. The pyometra would explain why she started to eat the litter; she was seeking whatever nutrients the clay could provide.

She’s home and healing now in her little space suit. She’s one tough cookie, and is so happy to sit in her window again. If she’s still with me in the spring, I’ll be foster failing when I have to move out of state. She’s a real fighter, and I’m so glad I could be here to support her through it.

in all her glory. i posted recently asking what people think she’ll look like all grown up because she was moving on to be adopted. wellllll, i asked about potentially adopting but told them never mind bc i don’t have any other cats and she’s a baby so i was trying to be responsible.

fast forward to yesterday, they accidentally called me to tell me she was ready to be picked up by me five days after her spay. no one gave them the memo that i had changed my mind, so she was held back from a massive adoption event on saturday. i just felt like this was a sign and rushed over to pick her up 😭 they said if she seems lonely then we can always find her a better placement. but she seems so happy to be back here.