Kitties of Oz

Kitties of Oz

Her Facebook page is quite new, but the page is filled with several interesting videos and tips. "I am a member of many cat groups and I often see people asking for advice and information about various things related to cat and kitten behavior, health, nutrition, toys, foster families, ... So that's why I decided to create a page about it," Karla explains. "My goal is to fill this page with useful, educational, fun, and of course cute content that will help people and their kittens."

Mother and daughter

Her two cats Missy and Fluffy are mother and daughter. "Missy came to me as a stray cat and I started feeding her. After a while, she probably felt she could bring her three other kittens to me. I took them all in and brought them to the vet. When they were all ready, I rehomed two of them and decided to keep Missy and Fluffy," said Karla.

Gift

Karla adopted Jasper just before Christmas and spent all her free days with her new kitten. "I wanted to adopt a kitten, so I contacted a few local cat shelters to see if they had kittens available. Fortunately, they did. He showed me a picture of a small black kitten that had been dumped on the street the night before," Karla says.

Then she decided that three cats were enough. "I swore I wouldn't get any more cats..." Karla always feeds an old stray cat that lives on her street. She sets out food for him and he comes by every evening to eat. Until one day she was sitting on her porch, with a cup of tea. She saw a small red kitten run out of the bushes. He immediately started eating the food.

Finding his house

The first thing she did was call her roommate, because she couldn't catch the kitten alone. "He was very scared and started shouting at us," says Karla. "Fortunately, her roommate managed to catch it, so they brought him inside. "We walked through the streets to see if there was a mother cat or kittens nearby, but found nothing... I posted photos of him on lost and found pages, but no one seemed to care, so I decided to take him to the vet to have him scanned for a microchip, which he ultimately did not have."

Cat number four?

She had just convinced herself that she shouldn't get any more cats... When she brought the little kitten home, he immediately started purring and cuddling with her housemate. "He was absolutely used to people," says Karla. At first, she decided to get all his vet work done and then find a home for him, but Jasper had other ideas. "Jasper was obsessed with him! I had put the kitten in a large dog crate because I wanted to have him checked by the vet before he could socialize with other cats, but I just couldn't keep Jasper away from him. He slept on top of the crate and kept an eye on him the whole time. They also talked to each other through the cage."

Karla booked an appointment with the vet, put the little kitten in a travel carrier, and walked out the door with him. "I felt so sorry for Jasper. When I left, he was sitting by the window meowing. He was devastated that I took his little friend away," says Karla.

"The kitten was declared healthy, but they told me I still had to take care of him for another month because he was so small, so I took him back home. Once I was home, Jasper was so excited! I brought his little kitten back. I introduced them and Jasper sniffed him all over, started grooming him, and they crawled into bed together. That was it, Jasper had a new kitten!"

Because Karla was so unsure about an extra cat in the house, she decided to name him cat number Zero!

Cuddles and Cat trees

Missy, Fluffy, Jasper and Zero have two Cat trees, the Maine Coon Fantasy and the Corner Coon. Especially Jasper and Zero love to cuddle on top of them, or sleep in the hammocks.