I'm back & updates.

Very sorry, it seems I have neglected this blog somewhat.

Well, the foster cats stayed with me just over 4 weeks in the end, and with 3 cats and two dogs to feed I was pretty much just filling bowls with whatever meat etc I had and feeding lol. I didn't have the time, energy, or patience to (wash my hands &) grab my camera to take photos of every meal.

Well the cats went back last week. The kittens were spayed. Their mum, Onyx, turned out to be pregnant again. I'd had my suspicions, since the last week she was with me she had started looking a little barrel like, and was extremely heavy to lift. She also stopped letting me touch her stomach or put my hand under her butt (to support her back end when picking her up).

Anyway, to my knowledge she is in the rescue, and will go back into a foster home once she is a little further on in her pregnancy (by my reckoning she was 5 or 6 weeks pregnant when she left me, so will be due in 2 to 4 weeks time).

A week before Onyx and her kittens left, I fostered a new cat.
We have named her Angel. She is lovely, and she is heavily pregnant.

She was brought to the rescue as a stray on the 12th August. The same day I picked her up. She was (is) very skinny. She was plagued by feas and absolutely covered in scabs from where she'd reacted to their bites. I cant even describe it. You stroked her and her skin was a mass of scabs.
The people who brought her to the rescue had bathed her, which was a great help, because by the time I saw her, there seemed to be no fleas, so I assume the bath got rid of most.
The rescue treated her with some spray (chemical one *grumble*). Unfortunately that was out of my control.

I have since been putting DE everywhere.

The first week or so I saw no sign of them, though these last couple of days we have seen one, and the dogs have been scratching a little, so I assume some have hatched out recently, so I'm continuing to put DE on the carpets and dog bedding and hope that sorts them out.

Switching Angel to raw was slightly harder than with the other 3 cats. Though like them, she also seemed to hate the doom nuggets (aka cat biscuits).

To start, I was cutting her meat up extremely small, like tiny tiny chunks, less than 3mm sq. Gradually I was able to increase the chunk size, and now she is eating larger chunks and stripsof chicken meat, and biting and tearing and chewing as she should be.
But she does seem to eat more and like me to hand feed her, lol. So once or twice a day I sit with her and pick meat up and hold it out for her. She's so spoilt, lol!

She does eat of her own accord too though, and these last few days she seems to have doubled what she was eating when she first arrived - not that that is saying much - she barely ate when she came to me, she was so skinny I reckon her stomach had shrunk a lot.

So far she's eaten:
Chicken (mostly thigh/drumstick meat)
Lambs heart
Kidney
Liver
Lamb meat
Tinned fish - Pilchards, Sardines & mackrel
Salmon (both fresh and tinned)
And recently she's been eating Guineafowl which I bought 'as a treat'.

Oh, and she has had salmon oil added to her food a few times too.

Tomorrow I am due a delivery of rabbit, partridge, woodpigeon & quail, and I'm looking forward to trying her with these, as they will add some nice variety, and are a more natural diet than larger animals such as beef or lamb etc.

I will endevour to take photos of these meats and upcoming meals :)

So, now here are some photos of Angel

this is what she looked like when she first came to me! 12th August 2012.
She looked so mangey! Her fur felt so dry and brittle too.

Eating fresh Salmon fillet, 14th Aug











Doing what cats do best - sleeping in a box

15th August, 3 days being fed RAW. The tub in th background contains unknown DOOM NUGGETS (Royal Canin Queen biscuits I think.) Which I am no way in hell feeding her.





Angel asleep again, 20th August. 8 days on RAW.




22nd Aug - 10 days on raw.

Just look at the difference!

She is no longer scabby either, her fur is silky soft, and her skin is scab free save for a couple on her neck.

Now we are just waiting on those kittens!!!