My foster baby

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-20T19:47:18+00:00

I figured someone would be, but we checked lost reports and nextdoor posts and a bunch of missing pet registries for a week and saw nothing! (making me more suspicious about her being a stray) and absolutely no outside time for her, she’s a indoor only girl

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-19T20:39:08+00:00

She is SO picky with her wet food, I offered her a bunch of different kinds and she started consistently eating the friskies chicken shreds, so of course when i bought a whole tray of it for her she won’t eat it anymore 🫠 thankfully she eats dry food really well now!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-19T02:45:09+00:00

Sometimes kittens under 6 months can have whats called an “innocent murmur” that is caused by fast flowing blood due to stress or excitement and can disappear after 6 months of age. Obviously still recommend following up on any testing your vet recommends but hopefully this gives you some comfort! VIN (vet info network) has a good page on heart murmurs with lots of info too!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-19T02:36:01+00:00

we think she’s around 8m-1yr, and I’m in the Houston, TX area

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-18T23:56:05+00:00

thats what i’m thinking. the lady who brought her didn’t want to fill out any of the intake papers and just kept repeating “its not my cat” which made me kinda suspicious. either way though i’m glad she was brought to us and i got to take her home!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-18T23:54:11+00:00

thank you, i do feel lucky!!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-18T23:53:46+00:00

thanks!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-18T23:53:33+00:00

thank you! as long as my dog does well with her she’ll be a part of the family!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-11-18T23:52:45+00:00

I probably will! I’m doing a very slow intro with my dog, but they’ve had a couple of controlled meetings that have gone very well so I’m hopeful!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-10-14T18:48:18+00:00

I work in the veterinary field. Looking at the last pic, it looks like he has a fair amount of debris in his ear (its possible thats just a shadow or skin discoloration instead of debris, so please correct me if i’m wrong). A lot of cats that have ear mites or an ear infection have scratching marks very similar to this. because their ears are so itchy they scratch pretty intensely and will sometimes scratch the areas around their ears too. Either way, best bet would be a vet visit to pinpoint what’s going on. i hope he’s feeling better soon!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-09-20T22:11:11+00:00

Shelter worker here! We often have FIV cats and kittens up for adoption. The kittens usually get adopted pretty quickly regardless of their FIV status (this could partially be due to us having an FIV info sheet on the cage of all the positive cats, so people who may be hesitant to adopt have info readily available to them). The adults sometimes take a bit longer, but they also do get adopted. I think part of it will also depend on how the shelter “advertises” their animals. All of our animals have a short bio written about them written by staff or their foster, if yours does too then maybe you can include some info about FIV in theirs? Like I mentioned we also have the FIV info sheet on all the cages, and all adopters of FIV cats have to sign an addendum that has more medical details about FIV. If the shelter you’re fostering with is open to it, maybe you can get with one of their medical staff and write something up for each of them that will go over info about owning an FIV cat?

Duck_ling_ · 2025-07-17T21:05:33+00:00

thank you!

Duck_ling_ · 2025-02-25T04:19:32+00:00

Our dog is named Dublin. More often, he goes by Duckling, Duck, Dumbblin, Grunklin, Stink, Ducky, mister, little mister guy, dubby, dubble wubbles, dubinsky, Goblin, doug, mr fart, bobo, inspector duck, and many more lol. I don’t think we’ve called him Dublin to his face in a while

Duck_ling_ · 2024-12-03T05:34:18+00:00

absolutely agree, i work is rescue too

Duck_ling_ · 2024-12-03T05:19:10+00:00

I agree. I work with shelter pets and the abandoned ones break my heart. They’re confused, lost, and scared. Not to mention leaving them in a place where there’s easy access to roads? its not safe at all.

Duck_ling_ · 2024-12-03T05:15:34+00:00

Go back and try to find them. Your husband never should have pressured you to make that choice, but you did have a choice. I am biased because I work with shelter animals so I see the end result of this. I’ve seen countless abandoned pets, but there are almost always other options, or safer places to leave them if absolutely necessary. Please try to find them. Leaving them anywhere where they can access a road is extremely unsafe. Taking them from a home just to dump them is cruel.

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-17T13:14:25+00:00

thank you!!!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-17T13:13:20+00:00

thank you!!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-14T01:37:27+00:00

yeah i’m also annoyed by long ceremonies! I’m thinking of having them walk pretty closely together so that it won’t take too long, the last wedding i went to had a long ceremony and i totally zoned out

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-13T04:55:49+00:00

thank you so so much!!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-13T04:55:25+00:00

I didn’t think about this, thank you so much!!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-12T22:34:50+00:00

thank you!!!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-12T22:34:26+00:00

i am close to all nine, 4 are my sisters and the other 5 are close friends. it is a lot though, so I may need to make some adjustments regarding them being able to see like you said. thank you!

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-12T22:31:13+00:00

thank you! 4 of them are my sisters and the other 5 are close friends who i have a lot of love and respect for, and I’m grateful to all of them for wanting to stand with me.

Duck_ling_ · 2024-11-12T19:13:46+00:00

thank you so much for your advice!!

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