CARING FOR YOUR FEMALE KITTEN

Hi Mum and Dad, it’s Missie and Razzie here!

We are beautiful, and we think you are very lucky to have us. Once you have got to know us, we know you will agree!

We like Kitten Whiskas Super meat in tins, mixed with a little Adult Whiskas, and a little good quality raw beef mince sprinkled over the top, three or four times a day. We also have Hills Science Feline Growth, or Royal Canin Kitten 34 biscuits left down all the time (a good idea during the day in Summer, because the flies don’t like them) with plenty of fresh water (we also love GOAT’S MILK!), left down at all times for us to drink (and paddle in!) Dommy got very cross when we did that. She called us “Tucky Moads!” As If! If we want a little more food, don’t worry, as we will tell you, very loudly. Please, DO NOT CHANGE the food we are used to. Once we have settled in, if you want us to have something different, then please introduce it very gradually, a little bit at a time, into our usual diet. Dommy said you would be very sorry if you didn’t follow this advice!

We have been wormed. Dommy uses Panacur Paste wormer, and we were “done” at 6,8, and 10 weeks, then we had Kitten Stronghold when we were 12 weeks old. This also kills any fleas or mites, so she uses this on all her cats and kittens, about every six weeks. This is essential if you have other pets for us to play with, which go out, or for us if we are allowed to play in the garden with you, providing it is an “escape-proof” one. If we are allowed out, it would be a good idea to get us micro-chipped, in case we get lost. Our Mummy and Daddy have both been blood tested for Feline Leukaemia, found negative, but inoculated against it. Our Annual Booster is due in June 2007.

It is said, that Divorce and moving house, are two of the biggest causes of stress. Well, just think about that for the moment. We have just divorced our old parents, and we’ve moved house! When you get us home, please show us where our litter tray is – we are used to one with a hood (less messy, Dommy used to say, ‘cos we like digging to Australia!). Make sure we have a bed, or leave us in the travelling case, with food and water near us. Please don’t all rush to say “Hello”, let us get over the journey, and rest in peace for a time. We want to be friends with everyone in our new home, but we do need time to get used to it all.

If we are going to watch TV, we will need another litter tray in the room, as we might be too scared to go and find the other one, and we don’t want any “Liddle accidents”, do we?

When we were very young, Dommy used to groom us with her hands, to get us used to it. Now we are used to being combed (with one that has two different lengths of teeth), and a small slicker brush to brush our fur up the wrong way. If the fur on our chest and tummy gets greasy, she used a non-scented baby powder, and rubbed it well into our fur, then made sure she brushed it all out, with a bristle brush. She says we must be groomed every single day; otherwise we will get “Matted”. She also wipes our eyes with a piece of moist cotton wool, to get rid of the brown “Tear Stains” every day.

We are very loving little cats, but sissies when it comes to vacuum cleaners. When they are quiet, we will try to kill them, but it doesn’t work, because they still come out the very next day. We will help you with the brush and dustpan and washing the floors though – we love helping with that, even though she used to say we were more of a hindrance!

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We cry very loudly when we don’t know where everyone is, especially when we’ve just woken up from a catnap. Dommy used to say, “For Heaven’s sake girls, anyone would think you were being killed” It works you know, as she always came to see what the matter was!

We’re afraid we have been very spoilt! We were allowed on her bed, and sometimes she used to let us have some of her dinner, if she thought we would like it. We love chicken, and her ham “samwidges” were scrummy!

Please don’t waste a lot of pennies on fancy beds and stuff. We love chasing tape measures, and table tennis balls. We need lots of those because they kept going under the furniture. We certainly knew how to wind her up. She’d spend hours rescuing them all, but in five minutes flat, we’d made them all disappear again! We love little furry “Meeces” to play with, watch us kill ‘em! Most important of all is a scratching post, but it must be covered with SISAL rope. We had one with a platform on top that we could sleep on, if the bedroom door was closed and “He” was sleeping in OUR chair. You do have to watch these humans!

Please be very careful with what disinfectant you use to clean our litter tray out with. Use Savlon, or a special cat one, ‘cos lots of disinfectants are poisonous to cats! We are used to World’s Best Cat litter. Some cats do not like the wood chip ones, because of the “pine” smell!

If we are not going out, please will you clip our nails? Even a scratching post does not stop them getting long, so they catch in things. Dommy did it every month, usually just after we had climbed up her legs, to see what she was doing. She said it was to “save the furniture”, but the furniture didn’t yell like that, so we think she was telling “Porky Pies!”

She used to just clip off the hooked part of our claws with her nail clippers.

If you have to give us a pill at any time, try wrapping it up in a piece of ham, or mince, or even cover it with a meat or fishy paste. If we are too cute to be caught with a trick like that, then you’ll have to resort to “Brute Strength“ - wrap us up tight, in a large towel, open our mouths and drop the pill as far down the back of our throat as you can, close mouths, then stroke our throat with our heads back, until you see us swallow.

If you want any help or advice in looking after us in the way to which we have been accustomed, please don’t hesitate to contact her. She will want to know how we are getting on, and if we’re being “GOOD”! We promised her we would behave ourselves.

Looking forward to a long and loving friendship,

Yours

Missie and Razzie

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P.S. Please continue with our insurance, at least for the 1^st year, just in case!