animals.. what can ya do with them?? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

em1014 · 05-20-2003, 06:55 AM

Our pets having babies is not a new concept for our family but we're all out of ideas for our latest situation. One of our cats has recently had kittens and is now insisting on bringing them into the house. That would not be a problem if she would behave like our other animals and keep them in a hidden basket somewhere where we can keep an eye on them. Instead she continues to bring them into the kitchen and put them in a cabinet full of pans under the stove. If we close the cabinet door she just stands there and looks at us or opens the door herself. The main problem with her keeping the kittens in the kitchen is that is where we also keep our dogs. If we don't let her in she drops her kittens at the door and we have big dogs outside....

cdwonderful · 05-20-2003, 09:25 AM

cabinet locks, like for toddlers. Inconvienent, but it is only till ther are weaned................

Atanvarno · 05-20-2003, 09:37 AM

My parents have two female cats who get kittens all the time (couple of weeks ago there were 10) One of the cats carry her kids everywhere, to my parents' bedroom, behind the couch in the TV-room, to the neighbour. It's mainly because she feels insecure in the room that was appointed for her. We have just made sure she always keeps them there, or if she manages to sneak them out they are returned at once, eventually she has started feeling a bit safer there and now there's not much of a problem at all (we still make sure she doesn't take them anywhere else in the house though).

cheerios · 05-20-2003, 11:35 AM

I know this isn't an immediate solution, but spaying and neutering your pets would be a long term one. No puppies and Kittens, no need to find them homes, no need to feed more. There's plenty of unwanted/unloved pets in the world that need homes...

Slims · 05-20-2003, 05:51 PM

hehe, you could mail them to my girlfriends parents. Her mother is has bad as she is about kittens. They already have more than a dozen cats (they live on a farm).

05-20-2003, 06:55 AM	#1 (permalink)
em1014 Crazy	animals.. what can ya do with them?? Our pets having babies is not a new concept for our family but we're all out of ideas for our latest situation. One of our cats has recently had kittens and is now insisting on bringing them into the house. That would not be a problem if she would behave like our other animals and keep them in a hidden basket somewhere where we can keep an eye on them. Instead she continues to bring them into the kitchen and put them in a cabinet full of pans under the stove. If we close the cabinet door she just stands there and looks at us or opens the door herself. The main problem with her keeping the kittens in the kitchen is that is where we also keep our dogs. If we don't let her in she drops her kittens at the door and we have big dogs outside....

05-20-2003, 09:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
cdwonderful another passenger Location: Youngstown, Ohio	cabinet locks, like for toddlers. Inconvienent, but it is only till ther are weaned................ __________________ Never try to teach a pig to whistle it wastes your time, and annoys the pig.....

05-20-2003, 09:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
Atanvarno Tilted Location: Norway	My parents have two female cats who get kittens all the time (couple of weeks ago there were 10) One of the cats carry her kids everywhere, to my parents' bedroom, behind the couch in the TV-room, to the neighbour. It's mainly because she feels insecure in the room that was appointed for her. We have just made sure she always keeps them there, or if she manages to sneak them out they are returned at once, eventually she has started feeling a bit safer there and now there's not much of a problem at all (we still make sure she doesn't take them anywhere else in the house though). __________________ Memorization is a poor excuse for intelligence." - Cesar Martinez-Garza (1973 ->) -

05-20-2003, 05:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
Slims Eccentric insomniac Location: North Carolina	hehe, you could mail them to my girlfriends parents. Her mother is has bad as she is about kittens. They already have more than a dozen cats (they live on a farm). __________________ "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence

05-20-2003, 11:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
cheerios Banned Location: 'bout 2 feet from my iMac	I know this isn't an immediate solution, but spaying and neutering your pets would be a long term one. No puppies and Kittens, no need to find them homes, no need to feed more. There's plenty of unwanted/unloved pets in the world that need homes...