Muffin Pt 3 - Days 3 and 4 - SHE MOVES!

SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT!! SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT!!!Both yesterday morning AND this morning, when I went over to check on Miss Muffin, she had eaten, drank, used the litter box, and was out in the open in the middle of the room lying in a sunbeam on one of the beds I set out for her on a table. AMAZING! She still cringes like crazy when I go over to touch her, but her first instinct is not to run from me - it's just to look at me. And not even hatefully! She just looks at me when I open the door and walk in, and when I go over to her dishes to replenish them, she goes back to sunbathing and pays no attention. I think this is fantastic. After only three days she's already semi-comfortable in her new...

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Muffin Pt2 - Day 2 update.

Not much of an update, sadly... Muffin still has not eaten, peed, pooped, drank any water, or moved on her own account. She found a new hiding spot that I found her in lastnight when I went to feed her, and was still in it this morning when I went again to attempt the food thing. I moved her to the litter box to see if she'd hide in it for a while or something similar... no dice! Totally reluctant to go in it at all and DEFINITELY not interested in staying in it - she bolted out of it as soon as I stepped away and hid under a table for a while. Later I found her in her 'spot' again. Poor Miss Muffin. I hope she decides life isn't so terrifying so...

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Muffin Pt1 - Foster Season 2010 has officially started in my zoo.

So, every year (starting a couple years ago, that is) I seem to find myself with a few foster cats from where I work over the late winter-spring seasons, and sometimes into the summer and beyond. Normally these only include tiny orphaned kitties, ranging from 1 day to 5 weeks old or so, perhaps with a mother in tow. It works for me 'cause my 3 kitties will accept tiny kittens as a minor annoyance, whereas other adult cats in their home are, to them, 100% intolerable. They let me know about this by hiding, growling and hissing for days on end, or until said kitties have disappeared from their home.This year, however, is DIFFERENT.Now I have a studio that my daddy graciously gave to me, which...

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