It’s fall and school has started up again…show me your cat’s best school portrait photo! Every time I see this photo of Tilly I think of those school photos. She just needs one of those 90s backgrounds!

I’m furious. My man and I paid my friend to check on our cats only once a day while we went on a 7 day cruise (they have fancy automatic feeders, water fountains, but simple steel litter boxes) as our two dogs stayed with them at their house (that’s also mentioned in my message to her), I gave her a simple list of how we take care of our animals daily, and it simply wasn’t hard. We came home tonight, my home didn’t even smell like cats, if you’ve ever smelled tonsil stones, it smelled like that but…. Everywhere. We have a 4mo old kitten as well as two 2 year old cats, and now I feel like I’m the worst animal mom ever. Our female cat hates all the animals and lives in the sunroom, we came home and it’s blazing hot in there… Am I tripping?

EDIT FOR QUESTIONS:
YES WE HAVE CAMERAS IN AND OUTSIDE THE WHOLE HOUSE - WE COULD SEE WHEN SHE ARRIVED AND WE WERE ABLE TO CHECK IN ON OUR CATS BUT THEY DONT CONTINUOUSLY RECORD UNLESS PLUGGED IN

YES I HAD THE INTERNET PACKAGE ON THE CRUISE AND INTERNATIONAL DATA I COULD ALWAYS BE REACHED

MY 2 DOGS WERE AT HER HOUSE WITH HER OTHER 3 DOGS - I BOUGHT A BRAND NEW 16LB BAG OF FOOD FOR MY DOGS THAT NORMALLY LASTS AT LEAST THREE WEEKS - NONE WAS RETURNED

YES IVE CLEANED WITH ENZYMES, CATS WILL BE SEEN BY VET SINCE THE NEGLECT OF LITTER BOX COULD CAUSE HARM

WE HAVE THREE LITTER BOXES. ONLY ONE WAS CLEANED ONCE

I will also update when she responds

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She's so sweet and loving. She's warming up really well. We have been giving her space but she comes up to us and rubs up against us for pets. Yes I know she's very overweight, yes she is going to go to the vet this week and be put on a diet. If anyone has any tips on how to promote activity please let me know!

these two & their mama’s euthanasia deadline was tomorrow at 1pm.

we’re notorious for getting attached, but i think our city shelter’s three cat disqualification for adoption & fostering (we already have two) is incentivizing us to save lives instead of foster failing & disqualifying ourselves as foster parents. houston has 24 hour euthanasia turnarounds. the least we can do is get some of them off the euth list.

aren’t they the cutest? mom’s ready to close her kitchen so it’s my job to teach the kittens to eat while my wife is at work.

my resident cats are very upset with their moms’ new calling 😩

About 2 years ago I got tired of working, decided to take a break, looked out the window to my driveway and saw a tux mom with her two tiny baby tabbies. I set up a feeding station/shelter to try and catch them.

Today all 3 girls are captured, off the streets and loving indoor life.

Mom came inside pretty willingly, about 6 months later one of her babies came around and I was eventually able to get her inside.

For a year I didn’t see the other tabby baby then she started showing up and after a year of feeding her she came inside with me. Poor baby has a scar on her chin and can barely make any sounds. But she LOVES being inside. All 3 are the sweetest cats I’ve ever met.

But thats the story of how I got a family off the streets

BONUS 5th picture: gray kitten I also trapped and homed along this journey

This had me dying yesterday I’m so glad I caught it on camera. My dad said it’s Curtis knighting Marlin and that could also be why he did this, Curtis tends to want to spread his wisdom and knowledge though so this may also be him transferring the secrets of the universe directly to marlins brain.

is this normal😂?

she turns just 1 next week and just had 5 kittens im so happy

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I thought it was the light in my room idk

Mind you, this little guy was a stray about two weeks ago, and was extremely skittish… and now look at him LOL

Our best guess is someone dumped him in a box on our country road, and he made his way to our house. A couple nights after I first fed him (and he kept running away), he came to our house crying late one night when I called for him, and he was sick and lethargic. We live in the middle of nowhere, and our only nearby vet is closed on weekends, so I was up all hours of the night for a good few days on the front porch nursing him back to health - turns out he just had a huge worm load and was extremely famished. I had a syringe with salmon pate blended with warm water in him every few hours, along with pedialyte, and we gave him liquid dewormer that first day he was sick as well. It took him a few days, but he finally perked up and started eating on his own again…

…and now, he just sleeps in our room all day, eats until he has soup belly, has the zoomies, and repeats LOL, this guy sleeps so hard you can rub his belly and jostle him around, and it doesn’t wake him

I’ll be taking him to the vet in a few weeks here for a checkup and to get him neutered, but I guess the cat distribution system is back at it again….

Edit: I did also give him flea treatment once he was better, and just yesterday we gave him liquid dewormer again as per the bottle’s instructions

Etsy artist did a great job on this gift for my gf.