Anyone Knows A Kitten Looking For A Home?

[Cyberstar]

We would like to expand our domestic pet zoo with one or two cats, but there isn't any in proper age in our own neighbourhood. If you know about avaiable kittens, please let me know. There's a potential problem in the fact that we have 2 Shih Tzu puppies (4 months old) and don't know how they'll treat a cat ... Nevertheless - since the pups are well educated and seem to understand the command: "Be nice!" (at least for a few seconds) - I think it might be worth a try to have an introductory, well chaperoned encounter and see what comes out of it.

[p1p]

Most cat owners tend to have homes for their kittens lined up before they are born. Otherwise they sell them to pet shops in places like the little sou off Hai Ya road, (which runs from Mahidol Road opposite Niyom Panich to the Wualai traffic lights.)

An alternative is to take a trip around the different vets' surgeries and the University's small animal hospital on Chonlaprathan Canal road.

We got one of out cats from a vets surgery out near the big Sony sign on the Chiang Mai Hangdong road. One of our old cats was dying, and they presented my daughter with a kitten to help mollify the tears. Much to my wife's disgust, as she wanted to reduce the size of our menagerie.

To acclimatise your cat with the Shi-tzus will take a bit of time. You need to keep the kitten, with food, water, litterbox etc. in a comfortable area where they can see each other, but not get together. Use wire mesh or similar. You will know when acclimatisation has occurred, they will be touching noses through "the bars". (This also teaches the cat its new home and greatly reduces the likelihood that it might run away.)

My dogs are and have always been somewhat larger than yours, mastiffs, rottweilers, shepherd, dalmation etc. and are fully acclimatised to my cats. However they kill any other cat to enter my garden. We find acclimatisation can take anything from a fortnight to more than a month, depending on the age of the kitten when it arrives.

If you do not intend to breed. Have your new cat neutered as soon as possible. A calling queen will keep you and your neighbours awake for weeks and a tom's spraying to mark territory is one of the most lingering, least pleasant smells on the planet.

[Due East]

Do you get the Chiang Mai Community Classifieds by email (CMCC)? If not, this was recently advertised and you can drop me a note for the contact info:

Free kittens! Four loving kittens desperately need a home. They are 3 months old, house trained, de-fleaed, de-wormed and vet checked. I have 2 boys and 2 girls, they are well looked after and healthy. Can contact me ... for pictures or address to look. Please help them find a home, I took on the mother cat as a favour for a friend and now have 4 kittens.

We would like to expand our domestic pet zoo with one or two cats, but there isn't any in proper age in our own neighbourhood. If you know about avaiable kittens, please let me know. There's a potential problem in the fact that we have 2 Shih Tzu puppies (4 months old) and don't know how they'll treat a cat ... Nevertheless - since the pups are well educated and seem to understand the command: "Be nice!" (at least for a few seconds) - I think it might be worth a try to have an introductory, well chaperoned encounter and see what comes out of it.

[spectrum]

You could try the Chiang Mai Cattery, run by Prof. Edward Rose, a.k.a "Uncle Cat". There's a story about him here :

http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/056/success.shtml

See also http://www.korat-cat.com/quest3.htm

Not sure if the CM Cattery has a website, and not sure how to give the address. Another poster may be able to.

However, I could give you a phone number by p.m. if you are interested.

[miltonbentley]

I saw some being advertised 'to good homes' in the riverside Rim Ping Supermarket noticeboard. (It's just by the ATM on the right as you go in.