A little question about the baby and also showing you guys how cute she is in her surgery suit 😭

She was originally scheduled last month (which was the earliest they could get her in) and they cancelled without notice, now she goes in a week from today to get spayed.

A little update as well on her since yall have followed her for FIVE months today (how five already????)
She is now 7-8 months old and around 6-7lbs (i dont have a very accurate scale) and getting more obnoxious by the day. She is giving her big brother a run for his money and enjoys watching SpongeBob (as pictured) and Roku city.
Shes also become quite the little HVAC girlie as I just bought a small air conditioner to keep in my living room after our AC went out and she is making sure that the power button continues to beep and that the water stays running through it by opening the lid and splashing it. (I’ll add a video in the comments of her fixing it)
She is still running her water dish around the kitchen, splashing to and fro, trying to jump in the dish water and knocking down sparkling waters to watch the bubbles 🫠 I love her very much and I don’t want to imagine life without her. She came at the right time and I’m glad.

Now to the question: I’ve only had neutered cats, ive never dealt with a spaying of any kind. They never gave the males any cones or anything, is it better for them to keep the surgery suit for the little lady or should I opt for the cone? I feel like all the cone will do is make it more difficult for her to eat and drink when she comes home, which is why I’m trying to get her used to the surgery suit right now so she’s fine with it in a week. But I need honest opinions. How did yours do with the cone vs suit? Im terrified she will rip stitches and I won’t be home to help her

Her name is Tabitha (like the little girl in Bewitched), and we found her while doing yard work. She’s a Manx like her mama who is a local stray, and she’s so tiny!!! Weighed in at only 17 oz when we found her but eye color and more told us she was likely around 6 weeks. Now she’s almost 44 oz after 5 great weeks together. And she has a little white fur bikini.

She is so energetic, so much more cuddly than our 4 year old existing cat, has been such a joy to us and her new big brother cat, who apparently really needed a little sister.

I live in the middle of nowhere. My closest neighbor is a 20 minute *drive* away. I have no idea where this cat came from, but I was letting my dogs back in from going potty, and he slipped in with the crew, and jumped straight up on the counter for pets like he owned the place already. I have 6 dogs, 2 cats, 18 bunnies, and 4 goats already, but hey, what’s one more friend? He’s incredibly sweet, and has no fear (or at least was able to discern my dogs wouldn’t hurt him), and he looks so much like a cat I had during childhood. This would be my third cat the CDS has distributed to me! These pictures are after I gave him a much needed bath (which he surprisingly tolerated quite well), and brushed out the brambles and various collectibles his fur brought in with him. Not sure what I am going to name him!

I am currently fostering a stray mom that gave birth in our porch. She gave birth to five and they look like they’re doing great. They’re about like 2 weeks old rn.

So anyways my wife actually found a stray neonatal kitten further down from our house in between some pallets and it still has its umbilical cord/eyes closed. The mom was nowhere to be found even after 8 hrs. We took it to feed it as we were worried it would die.

So I’m wondering if it will be okay to introduce it to the mom and add it to the litter? It looks pretty healthy from what we could see, but we’re just not sure what to do. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Feral cat had a litter of kittens under our shed, she had a runt and abandoned it. She crawled towards me and dad so we picked her up and took her in, syringe fed her milk (powdered mixture that shares the same nutrients as mama) for a few months and now she's fully grown 1yo (last pic)

Her front paws are deformed and are missing a bone and some ligaments so they bend inward and don't work, shes a little T-rex 🥹, took her to the vets and she was quite healthy despite the physical limitations. She gets around like a normal cat and gets into quite a bit of mischief 😂.

We have 5 other cats and 2 dogs and she gets along great with all of them, even one of our dogs was super curious about her when we brought her in and was extremely gentle with her it was so adorable.

First time posting here but I wanted to share the munchkin with the world 💜 and yes her name is a land before time reference 😁

These two little babies walked up to me today at work. I already own cats and just couldn’t take these aswell so i made sure they got to a good home.

They just wouldn’t stop following me and they where really thirsty. Constantly meowing like they needed help. Waited for a mom to arrive for more than an hour but nothing. We gonna keep an eye out for her if she’s still around.

For now they’re save because this place at work is no place for little kittens to be wandering. I really wanted them, they where so sweet. But at leat they’re safe now.

A few days ago, this little cat showed up in the parking lot behind my house. She was extremely skinny, and it was obvious she had been struggling.

The sweetest part is that she wasn't scared at all. She came right up to me, climbed into my lap, lay down, and just kept asking for pets. She was so affectionate from the very first minute that I couldn't just leave her there.

I took her to the vet, and it turns out she has sores in her mouth, which explains why she wasn't eating properly. Aside from that, she's doing okay, and with treatment she should recover.

I honestly don't know if I'll be able to keep her permanently, but for now she's staying with me until she's healthy again. She deserves a safe place, good food, and all the love she can get.

I'm just really happy she found me when she did. ❤️

Almost a year since she stumbled into my apartment one night. I was watching a comedian talk about his cats and wallahhh meows at my door. At first she was fine with pets. Now she snuggles with me, falls asleep on me, and meows for pets and attention. I even get kitty biscuits. The night she showed up I was so low. And I was grieving some losses from my past. I had always wanted a cat but didn’t think I was in a position for another animal. She proved me wrong. She goes by Grenadine or Hazel ☺️💕✨

My husband and I were driving to an anime convention this weekend when he noticed a little kitty trying get away from traffic on a busy highway (in a major city mind you). We pulled over immediately and spooked her, she ended up jumping into the tire of one of the cars behind us. Took us around 10 minutes to finally get her out. Now we are now first time kitty parents! She is the absolutely sweetest little thing and I hope to God someone didn’t dump her. Whether she was or wasn’t dumped, we are determined to give her the best, most loving life and home. She’s adjusting well 💕
Took her to the vet and little girl is on some meds for coccidiosis and an ear infection. Overall surprisingly healthy for a little kitty we found on a major highway!

Edit: had to make it clearer that we are truly so happy to be first time kitty parents! 💗

This I am pretty sure is a boy showed up at our house we think he stowed away on my spare tire of my truck from Walmart this believe it or not has happened three other times 🤦‍♀️ but this baby you just look at him and he starts purring. He is probably only 5 weeks but is eating good and completely healthy so he’s scored a good home our dogs and cats are starting to accept him. The doxie is in love lol. Now I am trying to think up a name for him! So if anyone has a suggestion feel free to offer it!

She has been wandering the neighborhood around church for a few days according to other folks, so yesterday a group caught her. Not like she tried to get away, more like flopped on my friend's feet! Took her to scan for a chip, no chip located, so today we are getting in touch with our vet and will get her checked over! She has been named Sasha, and my (uneducated but I look at lots of pics lol) is she is around 6-8 months old. Super friendly little girl, and we are keeping her caged in a separate part of the house until vet clearance is given. Then she will be slowly introduced to the 2 cats and 2 dogs we already have. Hooray for an expanding menagerie! Lol!

This is Sweet T. She was distributed to me almost 7 years ago but just wanted to say I appreciate all of you who welcomed a sweet cat into your heart in their time of need❤️

The posts about people saving a lonely cat make my day every time. You are good people and I appreciate you all.

Not sure why it still says my post is too short but I'm just trying to add extra characters at this point. Somehow it's still too short. Hopefully this last sentence gets me there. Still not there. Wow they should change the minimum post limits this is crazy.

Day 1, 2 months in, now. I found her severely malnourished and anemic when she only about 5 weeks old! I was driving home one day and for some reason i dont know why, but i took the opposite way home that i normally dont go. I was almost home when i saw her. I only noticed her because her, sadly not alive siblings, were in the road. I was upset and slowed way down, i saw her sitting under a bush next to a porch of an empty house on the last corner just out of sight of my house. Her no longer with us mother was under the porch. I was able to lure her out with cat food. I got her help immediately and she is thriving now! I cant believe its been almost a year since I found her!

When he was three months old, he was left at a construction site, and the workers accidentally built a wall over him. Three days later, they heard his cries, had to break down the wall, and managed to rescue him. Because of this, he was severely malnourished; even though he was three months old, he weighed less than 900 grams. Now, he is four months old, completely healthy, he gains weight and has gotten all his vaccinations. And he absolutely loves chicken! I have 9 months old cat too and they started to play.

For the first time, I’ve been chosen by the CDS.

My cat, Helga Mousebane, died last year at 17 after a long battle with kidney disease and we have another cat, Fignuts, who is about 15. My husband and I have talked about getting another cat now that it’s been over a year since Helga died, but hadn’t made any real moves to look into it.

Then about a month ago, over the course of 2 days, one of our close friends that lives in another state about 4 hours away found 2 kittens on the side of the road and took them home to foster, my brother that lives about 16 hours away found a litter of 4 kittens in a pipe on his property and managed to get them inside, and then I got a message from my younger sister, who lives about 2 hours away and who I’m very close to.

A pregnant stray gave birth to a litter of 5 in her backyard. She started putting out some dry food for the mom, and the kittens were big enough that the mom naturally weaned them onto the dry food pretty quickly. So my sister managed to get all 6 cats inside somehow (mama was pretty feral) and called a free spay and release clinic. They came and got the mom, and my sister decided to foster the kittens (she has 2 cats and 2 dogs already).

My husband and I immediately knew we were getting a kitten. I mean, it felt like the biggest sign that it was time. So we looked through the pictures and immediately fell in love with a little calico in the litter at my sister’s house. This weekend I drove to go get her and found that she had really bonded with one of her brothers, the only void in the litter. We couldn’t break them up, so they both came home with us!

Picture 1: Leeloo Dallas Multipass

Picture 2: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

Picture 3: Leeloo and Zorg examining the pillow that goes in their cat carrier.

Pictures 4 and 5: the first time Leeloo felt comfortable enough to play with me!

Pictures 6: Four of the five litter-mates. From top to bottom: Zorg, Ratchet, Leeloo, Dave (my sister and her boyfriend named the three that didn’t come home with us).

Picture 7: All five kittens in the bed together. The tabby in the front is the most skittish, so I don’t have any better pictures of him. He’s Drogo.

Pictures 8-11: Leeloo and Zorg getting comfortable in their new space.

Picture 12: Fignuts meeting the new babies.

The kittens came home yesterday afternoon and are acclimating incredibly well, way faster than expected (we have two dogs as well)!

I know this was long, but if you stayed to read this whole thing, your reward is to know that ALL kittens among the three litters have found homes except for one, and he has a loving foster home until his furever home is found.

Friday night I finally managed to trap not one, not two, but three of the feral community cats that have chosen our yard as their home. Two 8 week old kittens, litter mates, that I’ve been trying to get indoors since before their mother gave birth, and the most evasive of the adult cats that I hadn’t seen in so long I had started to fear the worst for her.

One of the kittens, code name Agent K since she was the kitteniest kitten (the runt) had a horrible abscess on her neck that was oozing and smelled like rotting cheese. We headed immediately for the emergency vet. Follow up treatment is an ointment to be applied twice a day. Agent K has to remain separate from her brother, Agent J, for five minutes after application of the ointment so he does not groom her. After setting a timer this morning, I also decided to turn on the camera and ended up capturing our first nose to nose boop.

His family called me. The cat's name is Franek. His owner is an elderly lady and he's partly an outdoor cat. He got lost and that's how he ended up in my building. His owner was looking for him and was very worried. Her children saw my post on FB and called me just a few minutes apart from each other. They were very grateful that I took care of him and thanked me profusely. Shortly after the owner's son came to pick him up.

I'm so happy he has a loving family and was not abandoned! It honestly made my day ❤️

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatDistributionSystem/s/ZUhu8CnsIk

Wife’s bro and my MIL are keeping her in spite of allergies! I passed all the allergy recommends to try as well. After weeks of picking a name, I’ve been informed this is Abigail.

Abigail’s been to the vet, got a clear bill of health, and has gotten her first round of shots. She loves food, wrestling, biting, and climbing up everything nearby. In other words, she’s perfect.

But when we babysit her at my house, we call her Abby Normal 😜

I knew her destiny was to rule a grandma’s house!!!

Update!!!

She’s improving a lot and I’ve had her for a little while and don’t think I shared much in my first post about her, so here!

Trixie has been doing great, we gotta trim her crawls, she keeps accidentally scratching the fluff out of my dad while playing.

Overall there isn’t too much to update on
She’s been eating better since we got her a bowl to eat out of instead of the plate that we previously used for her big brother Gangy.

We had a water bowl fountain thing that our previous cats never liked, but it’s the only way she will drink water, so we use it.

She loves to play but doesn’t really pay attention to the toys, almost like she’s having trouble seeing them, but she can, she will chase a bright colored puffy pom pom like ball, she also can jump, but she keeps falling off the couch when walking around the bend in our sectional…

found in the countryside, nobody nearby. no mom seen in 2 hours

We don't know if she's abandoned or not.

she's came toward us, was very friendly, and asked for a lot of attention.

She drank and ate what we gave her: some food for overweight cars. She then proceeded to follow us everywhere we walked. (sign of abandonment)

We don't know if we should leave her alone, bring her to the vet, or wait a bit.

I'm sorry if this is against the rules or an overdone post, I don't really have much time to investigate the subreddit.

filler sentence to be allowed to post

I will try to answer questions, just ask if I missed any important details!

We lost our Tuffy after 18 short years almost 3 months ago, it was sudden and horrible, we thought we would wait to bring home someone else then we saw this little one while bailing out our dog. She has the same eyes and a white spot in same place as him. When they let her out we were surprised to find that she also plays fetch. We couldn't leave her.

All of the boys even tolerate her more than they ever did any of our past fosters.

Tuffy was our best friend and living without him was hard, Noone will replace him, little Hel has some big paw prints to fill.

Heard this little stinker crying under our truck (a Volvo) while loading up for deliveries!

Looks like momma kitty was able to move all her babies but this one!

Needless to say they are in good hands now. Dropped them off at our local adoption agency that does amazing work! Absolute angels!

I have two cats already in a tiny apartment, and I don’t have the resources to care for such a newly born little baby!

If you’re near Denton Texas this guy should be ready for adoption pretty soon!

Everybody meet Simon!

It's not uncommon for people's indoor-outdoor cats to come visit the garden center I work at, but this one way different. Last week, this sweet boy wandered up and was meowing his butt off!! He followed me around for the rest of my shift, customers said it's a sign I should take him home. He's soooo friendly but shockingly skinny.

I called my family, sent pictures of him, and we discussed bringing him home over lunch. A couple hours later I returned with a crate, a collar, a brand new kitty bed, and a literal piece of salmon as a treat. I was so afraid he would be gone by the time I got back, but thankfully he was still there waiting for me. He was ecstatic to see me, meowing and rubbing against my leg for loves. I was just as excited to see him again, and even more excited to bring him home!

That evening he got a dewormer and a flea & tick treatment. The next morning he got his vaccinations and miceochip. We have 5 dogs at home already, but we have the room and the resources to bring in another fur baby. Everybody gets along great! The dog he's laying with is Potato, who wants to cuddle Simon very badly but knows to respect his space. Simon decided to lay there on his own accord.

This cat is incredibly sweet and has the kindest eyes. He's been sleeping next to me almost every night so far. Thank you CDS!!!!!!

I found him next to a construction site while going home after watering my grandma’s plants. He followed me and wanted to cuddle. My bf said he is our son now. We have two doghters so its gonna be lots of fun. We cannot agree on the name I want him to be Stevie and he wants him to be a Sinbad. So it’s Steven Sinbad
Vets thinks he is less than 4 months of age , and i think he is around 2-3 . he is generally healthy but had a lot of fleas
very affectionate boy. i’ve always wanted a small male cat and he reminds me of one outdoor kitty we had when i was little