The fur baby is gorgeous, she is a little Tortiseshell and we have called her Isabelle or Bella for short. WE got her: wet food, dry food, kitten milk, a little try, scoop and kitty litter, a scratching post and a little mouse on a string to play with. It all cost $50 in total and Bella was only $45.
Such a lovely present.
She had a bit of a hiss and spit moment when she met the dogs, but the seem to be calming down a bit now. I'm more worried about DS because he keeps trying to attack her and she is so tiny I'm scared he will crush or seriously injure her. Not sure how to handle him with her???
We have three cats, and our little girl kept attacking them. We put her playpen in a boring room and made sure that it has no toys in it, and use it for timeout. If she pulls a cat tail (or any of the other cat-torturing that she likes to do), she gets put in timeout for a little while. Only about 30 seconds to 1 minute, and one of us would be standing at the doorway just out of sight.
At first we would go in and ask her "are you going to pull Linden's tail again?" (insert name of victimised cat - it was usually Linden though), and she would nod. We'd tell her that she isn't to pull the tail, then let her out. If she pulled the tail again, she would go back in timeout for longer. By the end of the first day she was shaking her head "no" when asked if she was going to pull the cat's tail (then locating a cat and immediately pulling its tail)
Took less than a week to cure her of tail pulling (and probably about 10-15 trips to timeout in total). Now she's really gentle with all of the cats.
also - if you have a chance to, buy a "Da Bird" cat toy on ebay - you'll need to ship it in from USA. It should be under $20 all up, and SO worth it! Cats - especially kittens - can't get enough.
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