What's the temperature where you are???

[Ponypoor]

I remember a distant acquaintance of mine was messing around with a similar kitten that she found somewhere. She bought some kind of "milk" mixture for newborn kittens in a pet store, and gave it to him through a medical syringe (without a needle), gradually injecting it into his mouth. True, this procedure is frequent, according to rumors, a kitten needs to be fed like this every two hours.
True, I don't remember how much to give per feeding. You need to look it up on the Internet.
In principle, such cats are good because when they grow up, they actively catch or drive mice or even rats out of the premises.

I have fostered baby kittens - kitten milk replacer can be bought at a pet store along with kitten bottles. Feeding is every 2 hrs until they open their eyes and can start moving around, once they start to be able to eat I mixed the formula with softened kitten food, they still need bottle about every 4 hrs gradually weaning them. Once they can lap up liquids they can drink the formula.

This is about 6-8 weeks. Hand raised kittens are super friendly

 

[Ponypoor]

19:39hrs, +1C (34f), overcast, wet snow.

Overnight calling for a low of 0C (32f) and snow, accumulations of 2cm (1”).

It’s has been consistently cold so far this month, but Saturday, Sunday and Monday look to be mild, then right back to cold dreary weather.

 

[kikiruru]

38° right now, it feels like 33° with a dew point of 37° and 97% humidity. Going to be mostly cloudy with a slight chance for rain showers and a high of 44°.

Got home at 6am from my overnight shift, usually pretty uneventful but not this morning!

While I was finishing up some work, I got a panicked call from one of my managers, they were working in outside garden and had found 2 grey tabby kittens(very tiny but dry with umbilical cords still attached so most likely really recently born) in an opened box of grass seed up in our top-stock space off the ground. I finish the thing that I was working on and hurry over there to try and help them, they had grabbed a small dog bed and small blanket off the shelf to put the kittens in.

I recommended that they do so, at least get them off the grass seed, which they did while removing at much of the grass seed from the kittens as they could. We then heard another kitten after one of them left to go let in a few of the morning staff. So we scramble to find out where they are, locate the 3rd kitten and its deceased sibling in the next aisle over also in top-stock; brought them down putting the living sibling in the bed with the other two and putting the deceased one off to the side to figure out what do once we knew these 3 were in a warm spot in the store while the outside garden center got cleaned up. We think maybe the mom got scared by all the power equipment and noisy music that was playing and that was why we couldn't find her.

So my managers put her babies along with the bed and blanket into a opened cardboard box, put it back where they had been found and waited till they left at 6:30 to see if she would come back for them. She didn't so now they're now trying a nearby shelter or vet who will take them.

Basically one of my managers just texted me to let know that he tried calling a number they had found for a nearby shelter that has someone who specializes in these tiny kittens.

However it went straight to voicemail, probably called during their off hours but he was told of a few other places to try by some other morning staff, so he will be trying those places in an hour and will keep me updated.

This is a super eventful end of my shift and it is the 2nd time that we have found a cat in the store! As the first time one of my managers got a kitten to take home once she was caught. But these little kittens need special care that we can't give them so my managers are trying to find someone who can as none of us could forgive ourselves if anything happened to them.

I can/will give an update during my evening weather post if anyone wants it! Also I realized that I forgot to include the picture that I took!

Sometimes a nursing dog will nurse kittens
I have know 2 dogs who did

 

[AdaliaStark]

39° with a 35° dew point, feeling like 32° and 86% humidity. There will be cloudy skies with clear skies later on tonight and a low of 34°.

There is no update yet on the kittens. I'm hoping for an update tomorrow morning otherwise I won't have an update till Sunday night when I work next.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Nym]

Friday 11th of April 1.28p.m. Sunny and clear. 30.5C / 86.9F. 5.5 / 7.4kph NE.

Moon is 98%

 

[chrissynemetz]

48°F partly cloudy and calm
12:12 a.m.

 

[Jenbirdee]

 

[Ponypoor]

06:29hrs

0C and light snow. Had a small melt down when I opened the curtains and saw the evil white stuff.

Horses were non too happy about the snow also.

Tired of snow and cold.

 

[Pasha838]

Wow! I am not going to complain about our miserable weather here - we had some snow but nothing like this!

Sure hope for both of us the weather improves soon.

Well, the climate here is a bit cold, but it has its advantages - meliodiosis is completely absent here. Something doesn't suit it, either the winter is too cold, or the humidity is low. In Russia, it doesn't exist at all, if you don't take into account cases of sick travelers who arrived with this disease and ended up in hospital. True, they usually bring it from Asian countries like Vietnam, where there is a pronounced high humidity and at the same time an absolutely warm, snowless winter.

Of the dangerous diseases, we have tetanus, similar in infection (soil, dirty water, open wounds), but vaccinations against it are mandatory in early childhood, so it does not cause noticeable damage. I also remember there was such a thing as tick-borne encephalitis, carried by biting ticks, but a vaccine for it was developed back in the 1930s.

Now there is another problem with ticks - piroplasmosis. It is not suitable for humans, but is very dangerous for dogs. As a result, dogs in some areas have to be given some kind of medicine or vaccine every year that prevents this bacterium from existing in the dog's body. If this is not done, the dog will become seriously and dangerously ill, and if the injections are not given in time, the process will become too dangerous and will most likely lead to severe kidney failure. Therefore, I have to buy a fairly expensive drug for the dog every year so that it does not get this disease. Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of ticks in the forest here. Here we have a different situation - if the summer is noticeably damp, the air humidity is high - then these ticks themselves suddenly begin to get sick with something, reproduce poorly and even die. In a damp summer, there are no ticks in the forest. Therefore, I don't even know, sometimes it is good when the climate is relatively dry, sometimes it is bad.

On the topic of the topic: it's +4 C here now. The snow has started to melt and settle noticeably quickly. To the point that the path I cleaned yesterday is completely snowless, bare concrete.
The geese have come out for a walk. They are a bit dirty, but I can't do anything about it yet - we make do with basins, into which I manually bring water. When it gets warmer outside and the frosts end, I will be able to turn on the water in the street water supply system and fill them with baths, where they will bathe and wash themselves. For now, we drink from small basins and walk in the snow during the day, and at night we hide from the foxes in the greenhouses, which are locked.