Some of you have read our old thread about the neighbours kittens that was left outside for days and weeks without much attention, about her first litter and how she became pregnant.. again.
Well the day after I posted my update in the old thread she had her kittens, inside and all was well according to the neighbour, 4 tiny furballs this time. My neighbour likes to drink and party with their friends who also have kids, and they like to do it all night and if its a tuesday or a friday night doesnt matter, over there it seems it is the way to go until 6 in the morning. You know the party is over when there is people yelling and being thrown out and arguing outside for the entire neighbourhood to hear it
Catmum was shut outside for hours at a time, more like 12-14 hours without being able to see her kittens when they went out. We had a not so nice talk to them and they agreed to install a cat flap (actually they agreed to let us do it and pay for it) so we could let the cats in and out when they werent home. We hoped this would work out, but did not take long until we understood that no cat dares to go inside a house that noisy. Not to worry, at least the catmum is smart, 5 in the morning (after a reasonably silent night) she stood outside our door with a kitten in her mouth
and she walked all 4 of them over in to our guestroom (a room we were in the middle of redecorating so all that is put on hold and it is a mess but I'm afraid to move things around in case i stress her out).
Mum and kittens were perfectly fine, a nice quiet room all for themselves! After four days the neighbour knocks on the door, have I seen her cat?! I told her what happened and she said "oh ok" and then she said "well maybe bring them over later then?" and i said "dont you think she will bring them back here as she has already done it once to all the noise and partying?" she replies "well yes, my son does usually take the kittens and hide them for mum to find so maybe she got stressed" at this point i was furious but I think I just stood there with my mouth open not knowing what to say. So she said "well can i just leave her here then?" me: "..." then she walked off with one of her friends saying "I will think about it and try to sort something for tomorrow" (this is a week or so ago now) I woke my OH up and I don't think I have seen him more angry before in his life and the first thing he said was there is no way she and the kittens are ever going back to their place. How can you have a cat with a few days old kittens missing for four days without even noticing?! That is so beyond me, even if you don't care or want any hassle or .. well how can you not notice?
Some days after this another neighbour contact the bad neighbour, because they just got a kitten that is only 6 weeks old
and he is full of flea and the catmum lives a few houses from here but they didnt want to let the kittens stay longer (whatever that meant) so they come over to our place and ask if we can look at the kitten. He is very tiny and very wet, because they read that they should give him a bath. Rush him into a warm room and try to dry him up and call the vets and get them in a taxi and hopefully everything went well.
If all this alone was not enough, we are looking after our friends cat that is on some wild life vacation with his wife for one month, so thats 8 cats including the tiny furballs that luckily does not do much but sleep and eat and crawl around at the moment. Was cuddling with cat mum a few minutes ago and noticed something that looked a lot like a flea on one of her kittens, so full panic call the vet24 that told us to use a spray, on both mum and kittens(and not to use frontline combo on mum and bath the kittens like the vets page said). Frontline spray, and on frontlines page it says not to use it on anything less than 8 weeks of age
So now I'm not sure what to do, and our own vet is closed on sundays and the shop that sells the spray is closed for another 2 1/2 hour and from their page it doesnt seem like they even have it.
We have also tried to call cats protection several times but always get an answer phone (I dont know if its onlyme but those answer phones makes me nervous so I always call back later instead of leaving a message) for advise and back up on rehoming the kittens if possible. We do have one other option but they also put FIV cats to sleep and I don't have 300£ (60 per cat) to get a crappy inhouse test that is not reliable just in case they might have it, you never know. We also called rspca for some advice (mainly about what we should do as the cat brought her kittens over and the owner might want them back) they told us to put mum and kittens outside and not let them in, and if mum didnt take them back into the other house to call them again and they would come get them. OH hang up on them. (and yes we did tell them they hadnt opened their eyes yet)
All I can comfort myself with right now is that all of them are warm and safe and got plenty of food and attention. Hopefully the kittens can wait 2-3 hours until their fleas are sorted without anything really bad happening. When the kittens are older we will get her and the kittens vaccinated, and when they can be rehomed we will spay the mum. Not really sure what we will do after that, we can of course keep her, and OH really dont want to split her and the neighbours male as they have grown up together. If we did take both of them and rehomed them we are afraid that they will get new cats and the problems might start all over again
It seems they got them as toys for their kid and not as pets or companions.
2 hours and a bit until the shop opens, if it wasnt for purrs and all the wonderful people here I would probably walk around in circles biting my nails
