This slows any moving along of kittens to a standstill, since no shelter or rescue is going to take on ringworm kittens until they're over it.
I don't have any spay neuter appointments however anyway, didn't last week and don't this week until Friday, that is. It's a dire situation around these parts, in regard to finding spay neuter.
I am using lime sulphur dip to treat the kittens. The two who have it the worst are Truffles, an adorable awesome little black bobtail girl kitten with a brilliant white chest spot, and her brother Shroom, one of the other three, all black and white.
Yeah, I named the fungi kittens after common Oregon fungi. Well maybe Truffles aren't that common, but they sure are valuable and they do grow in Oregon. The three girls are Truffles, Chanterelle and Amanita, while the lone boy is Shroom.
I could have used Jim's help in naming them. Jim was a long time friend, and used to follow this blog, but gave it up, as many have, due to other callings and probably because it isn't that exciting. He loved cats and his grand daughter, who lived in Ohio and died suddenly last week. I don't know what he died from.
Jim was a fungi expert, knew them inside and out, studied them all his life. He was also a Quaker, a father, grandfather, lover of cats and online--fiercely supportive of my efforts to help them.
I met Jim a few times in my life since he lived just over ten miles from me. I hadn't seen him in years, however. I regret that but it was his decision. He had a lot of other things that kept him busy.
I will miss Jim's constant online presence and comments.
Back to the fungi kittens. Treating ringworm isn't that pleasant or easy with normal tame kittens. With wild kittens it can slow taming them down a lot. But I'm working at it. Here is Truffles. Isn't that bobtail cute?
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Good luck treating the ringworm. How long do treatments usually take?
ReplyDeleteIt can take a month or more.
DeleteSigh on the ringworm. I have picked it up myself more than once.
ReplyDeleteAnd sorry you have lost a friend.
I am thrilled that Vinnie's potent days are over though.
Ringworm is really common in Oregon, as you might imagine, with our constant wet. I am thrilled about Vinnie's loss of, um, "potency" also, but I bet Vinnie will have some adjustmnets to make in his thinking, of what's important. Hahaha.
DeleteHow do you stop yourself catching ringworm from the cats, or is that not the way it happens.
ReplyDeleteI haven't caught it yet. It's spread through spores, so after handling them I spray myself with hydrogen peroxide mix or clorox mix or something else that kills it, change my clothes, wash my face, all the usual covid killing activities work also for ringworm spores. I may get it, but if I am super careful, I won't.
DeleteOh I love me some ringworm kittens, I foster those and scabies and other icky things for my local shelter. Here in the humid Southeastern US it can take even longer to cure. Thanks so much for taking on these fungally babies
ReplyDeleteI wish I could hand these babes off to you. I bet humidity doesn't help with ringworm much! We get it more here in spring and fall. Grass seed fields got plowed under in the fall, sending up clouds of dust (and anything else in the soil) to land and infect where and what it will. Anyhow, nothing holds ringworm spores like damp straw.
DeleteSorry about Jim 😞
ReplyDeleteI like the name Shroom.
Yeah, Jim's death was a shock. Shroom is a good name. I've always associated the word with magic mushrooms.
DeleteThose names are almost as cute as the kittens. :) I'm sorry about the loss of Jim. We need all the good folk alive and well in these dark times. On that note, take care of yourself, my dear.
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