Thursday, October 31, 2013

spooky

You know what these little buggers are?

photo courtesy of CDC
These little nasties are giardiases - protozoan parasites that wreak havoc on a kitty's intestinal tract.

6 exuberant kittens + zillions of giardiases = nasty mess

I spoke too soon yesterday, Belle and Ranger's homecomings have now been delayed while we work to eradicate this parasite. Seven days of administering bitter medicine, twice a day. And since the kittens have been mingling with the adult cats and using their litter boxes, the adult cats are all being treated too. Oh joy!

On a less spooky and completely unrelated note, it's halloween!  To celebrate, Laura made these chocolate cat cookies filled with peanut butter filling. Yum!


Happy Halloween!!

10 comments:

  1. Yak ! Thoose parasites looks really nasty !
    Sure hope you get ride of them quickly !
    The cat cookies looks much cuter and jummy :)
    XOXO

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  2. OH NOES!!!
    *ick* to those parasites. We hope everything works out very smoothly and quickly. Just more time to love on those kittens.
    Happy Halloween.
    *Angel Abby*

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  3. Yikes, those are scary! Happy Halloween!!!

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  4. Ick is right. What an awful thing to put up with and try to get rid of. Hope you are successful soon.

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  5. Dear cod, we are sending lots of purrs your way. That is some nasty stuff.
    XOXO

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  6. that is sad, but how did you discover that? which are the symptoms?

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  7. So sorry for you & the kitties Deplorable Halloween trick. Hope you had some moments of comfort numm9ng those cookies. Tell all the furbabies to "get well soon."

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  8. Those look like some tasty cookies! I only have "dinosaur" cookie cutters!
    PS It is a windy Saturday, and I see the wind blowing outside on your TNR blog webcam! Hope the "Feral Family" are taking cover.

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  9. what a post of opposites.. eww.. grody. and mmm yummy..

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  10. I am sorry to hear they all had parasites. What a drag for all the cats. Hope everyone is feeling better soon.

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