tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post6328738595513918123..comments2009-12-12T16:17:32.557-05:00~*Connie*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/01127077337743262149noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post-77059606537296552302009-12-12T16:17:32.557-05:002009-12-12T16:17:32.557-05:00Hi Anon.. <br /><br />Like Sara, I have no way to contact you, so I can hope you come back and check this post.<br /><br />Young kittens are very much like toilet training toddlers. They play and play until they HAVE TO GO NOW! and if they do not see a box, they will use the closest quiet corner.<br /><br />For the next few weeks you can either put small litter boxes - I&#39;ll often make litter boxes out of shallow cardboard boxes like those on the bottom of a case of cat food - and put them all around the house in the rooms you let the kitten in, or you can create a kitten room and keep the kitten in there when you are not able to watch it.<br /><br />When I am fostering orphaned kittens, I use one room, but I will often have to put litter boxes in each corner of the room to ensure they use the box. For the last few kittens I ended up keeping I would put a few boxes in the upstairs of the house and they had the main litter boxes in the basement. As they grew up, I would eliminate the boxes I didn&#39;t want to keep and they learned that it was best to go down to the basement. I did not expect them to know that until after they were six months old.<br /><br />Good luck with your kitten!~*Connie*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/01127077337743262149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post-47657733636006637302009-12-12T14:35:32.563-05:002009-12-12T14:35:32.563-05:00I&#39;m on the hunt to figure out what is wrong with my kitten. I got him from a friend who rescued and fostered him from a stray mother who abandonned him. He quickly became litter trained at about 3 or 4 weeks old. When I brought him home at 8 weeks, he was still using the little box. Now, he is 11 weeks and has recently seemed confused about the whole thing. Sometimes he uses it but sometimes he just goes anywhere. I&#39;ve also come home to find his excrement only a half foot away from his box. Do you have any suggestions?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post-3192744571709191122009-07-10T16:49:01.243-04:002009-07-10T16:49:01.243-04:00Thank you so much for your response to my comment. It has helped me feel so much better. The kitty is at the shelter and they are monitoring her closely and they did see some of the same behaviors I was seeing. They also said it was good that I had taken her as if they had gone ahead with her spaying surgery instead of fostering her out for a week or two that she might not have made through surgery. I am trying to visit her every few days while she is trying to get better. Thank you, Thank you!Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post-78235919182619862912009-07-09T13:14:45.335-04:002009-07-09T13:14:45.335-04:00Hi there.<br /><br /> You didn&#39;t leave anyway for me to contact you, so I have to reply to the comment and hope you come back and check it.<br /><br />I was just thinking about your question when your comment showed up - which was very interesting to me personally. I love when things like that happen, so I&#39;m going to create a post about this. I hope you do not mind. <br /><br />Check it out at: http://www.kittyblog.net/2009/07/you-can-not-save-them-all.html~*Connie*~http://www.blogger.com/profile/01127077337743262149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859669.post-40621406100468599252009-07-09T12:47:33.856-04:002009-07-09T12:47:33.856-04:00You seem like an expert at fostering! I just picked up a foster kitty last Thursday that was about 7 weeks old. She weighed 2.9 lbs. She was very lively the first day, then had diarrhea every day after and started sneezing and having watery eyes. When I took her back to the shelter for an exam they said she had lost 9 oz. But didn&#39;t want to give her anything for her eyes because it might cause more diarrhea. Two days later she had stopped drinking and playing and mostly slept. She did eat better but everytime she did she had diarrhea. I got permission to take her to the emergency vet and for her to stay there until the shelter picked her up the next morning. Did I do the right thing leaving her at the vet? I kept thinking that she wasn&#39;t getting better staying with me, but I feel like I abandoned her. Of course, when we got to the vet she seemed livelier (like when you take your car in and they can&#39;t replicate the problem). Should I have kept working with her in the hopes she would get better on her own? When is it the right time to release the kitty back to the shelter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com