Quote Originally Posted by bmccasland View Post


Indy,
It's probably a good thing I don't live near you.. I think "sucker" is written across my forehead. Hope you can find a home for the kitties.
We managed to trap the kitten and the cat that I assumed was female (and perhaps the kitten's mother) this morning and took them to the vet. The kitten is male; the cat female and in heat. They've been spayed/neutered. They're likely going to keep the female for a few days until she's no longer in heat because, as they put it, males would "tear her up" right now. So, that leaves two other males to fix. I was primarly concerned about fixing the female, so I feel better about that.

DH and I are debated taking in the kitten. We're both really torn. We love our cat/human household as it is, but by the same token, I think we'd love to give the kitten a home. In the very least, it might be best to bring him into the household with the hope of getting him rehomed....but we could only do that if we were prepared to be his forever home.

Having gone through this just last year, it's not necessarily an easy process to introduce a new cat to a household. When we introducted Izzy last year, for reasons that remain unexplained, Henry got incredibly sick. He didn't test positive for any known cat virus, so we were left to wonder if the stress of a new animal was to blame. He spent a week at the vet with a persistent high fever. I had just lost Sophie Kitty a month earlier, and the combined trauma worked a number on me. I'm still not over all of it.

I'm not a religious person, but I tell ya; I've been praying for guidance about this.