Yes. The Humane Society has its own protocol for ringworm - separate quarters according to stage of disease, and volunteers to bathe them every day. They don't allow adoption until the infection is cleared. My friend who volunteers in the kitten program there also advised me to walk away from these small rescues, especially if ringworm is running rampant and they aren't separating infected from not infected kittens (they are not).
Another case of well intentioned California referendum law having undesireable consequences.
It took some doing, but we finally found a second kitten. He is about 5 weeks younger than Django and is a full on brown tabby tiger with the biggest eyes I've ever seen. Unfortunately, he came to us with some kind of viral infection, which he gave to Django, and both of them are recovering but this was the EXACT scenario I was trying to avoid. Mingus (after musician Charles Mingus) is so adorable and affectionate, and besides the horse is out of the barn so to speak, so we have no intention of returning him to the "rescue" we got him from (in quotes because it's not really a rescue - just some well intentioned lady who is a Trumpette to boot).
Django and Coco have been pretty good with him - lots of wrestling and jockeying but no real hostility.
I would attach a pic but it seems @jeanne-mayell has halted this option (?)
I would attach a pic but it seems @jeanne-mayell has halted this option (?)
Not exactly. Just attach it by clicking . I was able to do it yesterday, although people have to click on the link. If that doesn't work, then you can embed any photo, as @Dannyboy has done here many times and I posted instructions in the glitch section. You upload it to photos.google.com and get a link for embedding it on a website. Then take it to a photo embed site and post that code and voila, you have a photo on the site. P.S. Most of the time, the issue that prevents people from doing things here is a change or glitch in the multiple apps that run the forum, or your own system, or the host that serves the website or some ghost.
LOL - way too complicated for me!
Y'all will have to just believe me when I say how cute they are!
And one of Django + Mingus snuggled together
Such cuteness! Wish my girls would snuggle. They have a love hate relationship going . They are just as likely to nosebump hello as they are to smack each other in the face. Oy.
Update on the boys: they got neutered this week. Little Mingus, aka "Typhoid Mingus" - turns out he has FHV (not serious), Calicivirus (also not serious) and Mycoplasma (fairly serious). Django was already vaccinated for everything, but TM gave Django and me and Coco the Chiweenie the Mycoplasma. Good thing for him he's so darn cute or I would have returned him to the rescuer. I let the rescuer know because she still has a couple of his siblings in her home. And then I had to figure out what to do with my burgeoning sinus infection as a result. No way in hell I can go to an urgent care right now - every facility is very overwhelmed with the COVID surge. It would be a case of "You don't have COVID now, but you will by the time you leave." Reached out to my integrative doc back in VA and asked her to write a script and she agreed so *whew*. A Z-pack later I'm on the mend, as are the cats and dog (Doxycycline for them). I disinfected all toys, blankets, bedding, etc. so we don't get reinfected.
Sweet story from neutering day: When the vet called to update me she said that they did great, and she had put them in separate cages for recovery. When they woke up they started crying out to each other! She said she moved them into the same cage and they calmed down immediately and curled up together. They've become good brothers. Updating photo too.
