Regis Jr.! Regis Jr. is a mackerel tabby boy who is also a polydactyl (he has six toes) on all four feet. He is the largest of the litter and is going to be a big boy! He is a hunter and very active but also sweet and loves to sleep on your chest.
UPDATE: Regis Jr. has been adopted!
Hairy! Hairy is a grey medium-hair dilute tortie girl with quite the personality! She loves to talk and sleep on your chest.
Sox! Sox is a cute little tabby girl with calico elements and white socks and a white belly. She is very smart. The smallest of the litter, she was weaned first and also learned to climb first.
If you are interested in adopting one or more of these kittens or know someone who would like to adopt one please email me at adutton1(AT)cox(DOT)net.
I have been fostering these kittens since I participated in a trap-neuter-return (TNR) project in my neighborhood. My neighbor had been taking care of an old tom, Regis, who had been left by the previous tenant at her home. A year later, there were ten cats and kittens. I told her about TNR and we agreed to work on the project together and continue to take care of the cat colony after they had been returned to our neighborhood. We knew that one of the cats was pregnant, and the standard practice in TNR is to spay even if the cats are pregnant (there are just too many kittens that need homes). But she had the kittens one week before we trapped. We still spayed the mother cat, and I bottle fed the kittens for four days while momma recovered and her milk supply came back. She was a wonderful mother to the kittens for the past seven weeks, but as an outdoor colony cat, she was never meant to be a house cat, so she is now back outside and living with her colony where she will live out her remaining years.
Here are some pictures of the TNR project. If you have stray or feral colonies in your area I highly recommend that you consider a project such as this to end the breeding cycle for these cats. It was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done.
One cat in a humane trap.
The mother cat was one of the last ones to be trapped.
The cats recovering after being spayed and neutered. They were released the next morning. All ten cats in the colony were spayed and neutered.
For more information about TNR nationwide visit Alley Cat Allies and in the Phoenix area AZCats.
2 comments:
Ann, what you do is a great thing! Without you, I never would have had the most valued family members we have here--Ty, Maude, and little Jaime. We tell them day after day that they are the best things that have ever happened to us and we could never imagine our lives without them.
Very cool! Sounds like you are making a difference.
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