my sister picked up a pregnant cat. we want her to have somewhere safe to give birth so she's in our shop. as we've never been midwives to cats before, we were hoping for tips and advice.

also, she was with a juvenile girl. i think from previosu litter. but we failed to catch her. any ideas on how to entice her? she is much more distrustful than mummy. also, should we put her in the same room? my previous experience with dogs and some cats is that they help each other but these are semi feral and i'm not sure if the same rules apply.

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sorry cant help too.. Anyone with experience pls help out!

As far as the pregnant one is concerned, make sure she has somewhere dark and quiet where she feels totally safe and undisturbed, to make a nest. A very large carton (say, 500mm x 450mm min and 500mm high) with a couple of newspapers in the bottom for her to shred.

Juvenile - well I was a star at enticing feral cats when I was about 4 yrs old - it involved many hours of crouching quietly and feeding her potatoes and similar unlikely things that I hid from my own plate to feed her, but she never entirely trsuted even me. I was able to handle her, though - and she gave me ringworm as a gesture of goodwill! I definitely wouldn't put her near the mum cat when she has babies unless they are very obviously strongly bonded (mum and juvenile)

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hahaha... my poor 3 y.o son has had a couple of bouts of ringworm too!
ok will not put the girl in with mum. will try to put a picture of the box i made her. thanks.

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Alicia Ling Horsley

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any tips to get rid of ringworm human wise and kitty wise? Or at least prevent humans from getting it? I've got 6 ringwormed cats under my care and I wash like mad everytime I'm out of their room

i use buds for baby first aid lotion. it has lots of tea tree and manuka oil which is a fantastic anti fungal. you can buy it at vitacare and watsons i think. i've read that you're not supposed to use tea tree on cats but i have to admit that i have used this product on the cats as conventional medicine from the vets take so long to work.

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i just bathed the 6 of them with a shampoo from the vet's.. has chlorhexidine and something else as the active ingredient. i hope this works too.. i was bathing the mum cat n when i stopped to off the tap she licked her fur, shampoo n all!
i just hope she stays ok!

OMG - then you won't be showing next week????? OK - hit all surfaces with a bleach mix - 1:20 will knock anything cold. Vacuum, vacuum (walls, furniture, floor) and if possible, hit the likely areas where there might be spores with a blow torch. Have a footbath of bleach and water outside their room so you don't carry stray spores everywhere and use one set of clothes when you're handling them.... change outside the door and spray yourself down. I'm paranoid, but once you have it, it's a swine to get rid of! Oh, you poor thing, being in quarantine! It WOULD happen right now???!!!!!!

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My understanding is that Tea Tree is toxic to cats - I wouldn't touch it. Manuka (honey) is a NZ product with great healing powers, but for flesh wounds, I thought, rather than fungal.

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