Saturday 23 July 2016

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE POOP

When *VOKRA wants to determine whether a kitten is ready for adoption, they first want to know: "How is their poop?"

In other words, they want to know:

#1.  Is the kitten pooping on a regular basis?
#2.  Is the kitten having normal poops?
#3.  Is the kitten pooping where he/she should be pooping?

I have no problems with item #1. These little buggers poop ALL.THE.TIME. I swear, I feel like I'm scooping poop every 10 minutes ... Ah, yes ... the joys of being a foster mom to baby kittens.

On the other hand, item #2 has been posing me some problems since the kittens all stopped nursing. I feel like I'm scooping peanut butter out of the kitty litter sometimes. *VOKRA co-founder, Maria, gave me some probiotic powder to add to their meals and I purchased some pureed pumpkin to mix into their food as well. Did you know that pureed pumpkin works as both a softener and hardener of kitty poop? I didn't know that until I started fostering kittens. I`m hoping that after a week or so of the combination of probiotic powder and pureed pumpkin that we can get the kittens`poop back to an ideal state!

Item #3 was problematic for a couple of days when I first got the batch. They would poop right at the entrance of the bathroom door and then all the kittens would proceed to do a little dance on it and trample it all around the bathroom. In an attempt to rectify this, I put more litter pans as close to the door as I could, but to no avail.

To stop kitties from doing their business in places that you do not want them to, you have to make that place undesirable. I had one previous kitten who would poop in the sink, so all I did to rectify that was to plug the sink and put a bit of water in it.

He stopped immediately.

With this batch, I just taped down some packing tape onto the floor by the door. Once the kittens stepped onto the tape, they would feel the tackiness and step back.

I have not had an accident there since.

I wonder if *VOKRA would be interested to know that Zeal likes to sleep in the kitty litter.

Of all the places to sleep Zeal ... really?!?

The rest of the litter all huddled together on the base of their scratching post

Whenever I clean up the bathroom, I usually try to get all the kittens out of the way because they definitely slow the process down for me if I let them wander around while I try to clean. The best place for them seems to be my shower stall ... and they are quite content to be in there too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlCri1HqigM


Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association

Adoption application:
http://www.orphankittenrescue.com/adoption_application/

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