rescued 2 week old kitten

damagegt

Finnbar has turned into a total menace .If hes not tearing up and down the stairs hes terrorizing the dogs ,half way up the curtains,jumping out of some corner eating my feet.But check out his abs!

https://vimeo.com/106090553 Video
This video was two days ago .Hes a totally different beast now



Hes completely on to solids now.So my next question is where do I go from here? Vets appointments,disciplining (if thats possible)....

damagegt

is mise spartacus wrote: »

Our first stray had no fur on his back and burned skin from a hot engine. Only a few weeks when we found him, skinny and lonely, he's 10 now and happily sleeping in front of the fire with a full belly, purring away

Ah the poor thing,Did the hair grow back ?

New Home

damagegt wrote: »

Finnbar has turned into a total menace .If hes not tearing up and down the stairs hes terrorizing the dogs ,half way up the curtains,jumping out of some corner eating my feet.But check out his abs!

https://vimeo.com/106090553 Video
This video was two days ago .Hes a totally different beast now

Hes completely on to solids now.So my next question is where do I go from here? Vets appointments,disciplining (if thats possible)....

Send him to boarding school, that'll teach him!

He seems in great form, I think the vet visit can wait another few weeks, but that's just me. As for the disciplining, I'd start with a good scratching post and a few toys to keep him entertained and away from your curtains - fat chance :rolleyes:... I remember reading some other posts a while back about a Feliway plug-in or similar, it might help to calm him and make him feel less anxious/nervous/stressed while you're away.

Anyway, thanks for the update, D! That young cat is gorgeous, he's growing up big, strong, funny and happy - we knew already he was smart :cool:. I'm sure you'll never be bored again, with him around! Congratulations, you've done sterling work with him!

Mr E

Jeez he's getting big!

Nody

damagegt wrote: »

Finnbar has turned into a total menace .If hes not tearing up and down the stairs hes terrorizing the dogs ,half way up the curtains,jumping out of some corner eating my feet.But check out his abs!

Hes completely on to solids now.So my next question is where do I go from here? Vets appointments,disciplining (if thats possible)....

Time to start his routine; before he get fed make sure you play with him (da bird is great but buy plenty as they will break) to the point he wants to go after it but simply cant. Then you feed him, he'll groom himself and go to sleep. Rinse repeat basically. This way you can focus his energy to the toy rather than becoming a acid addicted clawed fur ball terrorist roaming around your house :P

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

That is incredible, he's like a proper little cat now.

Raminahobbin

Thread is featured on the boards.ie Facebook

FINBAR'S FAMOUS!!

RainyDay

damagegt wrote: »

disciplining (if thats possible)....

Bwaaaa haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaaaa haaaaaa

Karl Stein

damagegt wrote: »

disciplining (if thats possible)....

Oh it's possible alright. I'm sure Master Cobbles will have you disciplined in no time at all. :pac:

New Home

Start with a collar... make sure it's your size...

RoadhouseBlues

New Home wrote: »

Start with a collar... make sure it's your size...

Hahahaha. Another poor owner lost to the cleverness of the domestic moggy. It is indeed the moggy who is the owner. All shall bow to the moggy:D

is mise spartacus

damagegt wrote: »

Ah the poor thing,Did the hair grow back ?

Yes it did, he's a dote now

damagegt

Nody wrote: »

Time to start his routine; before he get fed make sure you play with him (da bird is great but buy plenty as they will break) to the point he wants to go after it but simply cant. Then you feed him, he'll groom himself and go to sleep. Rinse repeat basically. This way you can focus his energy to the toy rather than becoming a acid addicted clawed fur ball terrorist roaming around your house :P

Thats work so well.Ran around like a mad man,ate food then fell over and fell asleep

nicki11

Hes doing so well, hes a gorgeous wee menace and hes turned all my friends into cat lovers

damagegt

nicki11 wrote: »

Hes doing so well, hes a gorgeous wee menace and hes turned all my friends into cat lovers

Me too,Hes the first thing I tend to in the morning,hes always so happy to see me.I come in later that day and its more of the same.Id be lost if he wasnt around me now.

charlietheminxx

Have just read this thread from start to finish and it's made me laugh and cry. Such luck that you found him OP, you really saved him and he's thriving. Well done, you should be really proud of yourself. It's obvious from your posts how much you love him!

Esterhase

damagegt wrote: »

Me too,Hes the first thing I tend to in the morning,hes always so happy to see me.I come in later that day and its more of the same.Id be lost if he wasnt around me now.

This post really made me smile this morning. It's brilliant that such a fluffy wee joy-bundle can drop into your life out of nowhere and that you're both doing so well together. Fair play to OP, little Cobbles is so lucky to have you

Addmagnet

There's been a dearth of pictures and videos lately - I demand my Finbarr fix!

damagegt

Addmagnet wrote: »

There's been a dearth of pictures and videos lately - I demand my Finbarr fix!

as in no pictures or videos in less then 24hrs ?

willabur

damagegt wrote: »

as in no pictures or videos in less then 24hrs ?

Yeah man, need to get a webcam. I'm sure you could get a kick starter campaign going to have Finbars entire life caught on camera ala the Truman Show

jimf

damagegt wrote: »

as in no pictures or videos in less then 24hrs ?

ya 24 hours what you trying to do keep him all to yourself or something :eek::eek:

Gael23

I've spent the last hour reading this whole thread.
I'm not a Cat lover, in fact I've quite a dislike for them but it's impossible not to be warmed by this thread:)
Never come across a thread/story like this before and i hope it doesn't die off anytime soon, although I suspect the OP is getting fed up of all the photo requests now so maybe we'll let him reduce the frequency as time goes on!
Also,I'm sure there's loads of shelters out there looking for foster daddys:)

May I also suggest a forum beers in Cork sometime soon?

FanadMan

ryanf1 wrote: »

I've spent the last hour reading this whole thread.
I'm not a Cat lover, in fact I've quite a dislike for them but it's impossible not to be warmed by this thread:)
Never come across a thread/story like this before and i hope it doesn't die off anytime soon, although I suspect the OP is getting fed up of all the photo requests now so maybe we'll let him reduce the frequency as time goes on!
Also,I'm sure there's loads of shelters out there looking for foster daddys:)

May I also suggest a forum beers in Cork sometime soon?

Are you suggesting taking Cobbles to the pub? He'll have to leave at 9pm tho - is underage

damagegt

ryanf1 wrote: »

I've spent the last hour reading this whole thread.
I'm not a Cat lover, in fact I've quite a dislike for them but it's impossible not to be warmed by this thread:)
Never come across a thread/story like this before and i hope it doesn't die off anytime soon, although I suspect the OP is getting fed up of all the photo requests now so maybe we'll let him reduce the frequency as time goes on!
Also,I'm sure there's loads of shelters out there looking for foster daddys:)

May I also suggest a forum beers in Cork sometime soon?

Im glad you like the thread.I just hope that people that might end up in the same situation can find some help from all this.
Nah,It aint going anywhere. I just don't have as much time at the moment to sort my phone situation so unless someone drops over Iv nothing to capture videos/pictures.
Hmmmm beer,I do like beer.

honerbright

damagegt wrote: »

so unless someone drops over Iv nothing to capture videos/pictures.

You shouldn't say that, I fancy myself a bit of a photographer and live not horrifically far from you :P

Karl Stein

honerbright wrote: »

You shouldn't say that, I fancy myself a bit of a photographer and live not horrifically far from you :P

I go from Cork to Garretstown quite often so I can help... em.. make the tea?

grey_so_what

Karl Stein wrote: »

I go from Cork to Garretstown quite often so I can help... em.. make the tea?

I'll sell the entrance tickets....;)

Proceeds go to beers....:pac:

damagegt

haha my niece was changing her friends to see him.Little sneak.

I cant tell you how much of an absolute lunatic hes become.I opened the door of his room this morning and he ran straight out,up the whole length of my body and on to my shoulders.Then down the stairs in to kitchen to terrorize the dogs.Three days ago he was having trouble going down the stairs. :eek:

First night lighting a fire after the summer,look at the poor mite.Hes wreaked after a day of been a complete psycho.

damagegt

honerbright wrote: »

You shouldn't say that, I fancy myself a bit of a photographer and live not horrifically far from you :P

Thanks for that Honer.

New Home

Your niece is setting up her College Fund, she's very smart! And with that picture you've got your Christmas card sorted :pac:

That's a gorgeous dog too, by the way...

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Do the dogs not mind him?

Gael23

It's not often you see a Dog and Cat getting along together like that!

damagegt

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Do the dogs not mind him?

Izzy tolerates him ,but meekka is a very motherly dog and patient ,carries socks/teddys around like their pups.Licks them,brings them to bed.She does the same with Finnbar,well maybe not the carring.He would scratch her eyes out.
He does send alot of time jumping around/on her and she doesn't budge.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

damagegt wrote: »

Izzy tolerates him ,but meekka is a very motherly dog and patient ,carries socks/teddys around like their pups.Licks them,brings them to bed.She does the same with Finnbar,well maybe not the carring.He would scratch her eyes out.
He does send alot of time jumping around/on her and she doesn't budge.

And here I thought this thread couldn't get any more adorable!

New Home

You do know we now need a photo of Izzy too, don't you? We don't want her to feel left out

damagegt

New Home wrote: »

You do know we now need a photo of Izzy too, don't you? We don't want her to feel left out

Here is the pack at the beach today ,from front to back,Meeka,Izzy and Brock (sisters),Mollys there too but shes pretty old and has no time for these young'ns.Also a closer shot of Izzy.

New Home

Awwwh.... They're sooo lovely, thanks for posting these! They've such sweet faces you just want to give them a cuddle!!:) These are definitely happy dogs...
And with role models such as these around him, I wouldn't be overly surprised if, sooner or later, Finby started to bark... :rolleyes:

Pumpkinseeds

Maybe Finbarr will be joining them for walks when he's older. I bumped into some new neighbours the other night, they've got 2 dogs and 2 young cats and the cats were running along behind them while they were walking the dogs the other night.:)

Alicat

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Maybe Finbarr will be joining them for walks when he's older. I bumped into some new neighbours the other night, they've got 2 dogs and 2 young cats and the cats were running along behind them while they were walking the dogs the other night.:)

My parents' cats do that too! Dad is like Dr Doolittle going up the road at about 10pm.

damagegt

Finbars first adventure outside.he looked a tad startled by it all.I think this is my favorite picture of him yet.
https://vimeo.com/106873709

secondrowgal

Ha ha! Fab! He doesn't like that green stuff at all! Keeps hopping from paving stone to paving stone

damagegt

I just had a read through the thread and i totally forgot about the lady that had Finbar at the start.I found out she was on holidays while this all happened so how did the kittens get into the shed and the mother not be in there ? The door was locked and it had no windows........anyway,when I called she denied EVERYTHING,the cats/kittens,the letters and complaints people had left her.So I went along with it so as not to upset her and suggested a TNR program with the estate as they have a pretty good committee already.I got "no no no get away from my front door"

There is not much more I can do if shes doesn't want the help.I tried to be as approachable and easy going about it all as I could but she was super defensive straight off the bat.

sunbeam

secondrowgal wrote: »

Ha ha! Fab! He doesn't like that green stuff at all! Keeps hopping from paving stone to paving stone

Kind of reminds me of the reaction of one of mine to the long haired rug in my spare bedroom. He used to walk on it very reluctantly and cautiously in case it might swallow him whole at any minute.

Karl Stein

'The adventures of Finbarr Cobblepot' is the best thing on the TV these days.

New Home

HE. IS. GORGEOUS. :cool:

In the video you posted a few days ago he still looked (to me) like a three-year-old child, getting big, but not quite ready to venture too far from Daddy, yet. Now Cobbles looks (to me) like a five or six-year-old, big, strong, happy, jumping all over the place and pretending to be the greatest warrior ever. :pac: I can almost hear him saying, "DAAA-AAAAD! I'm going over to Tom's house to play!! We're going to build a dinosaur and a castle and a spaceship and a robot and a sword!"

As for that lady, I don't know... She might have felt (through no fault of your own!) that she was being "attacked" yet again by a stranger, so her defensiveness might have been a pre-emptive strike, especially if others were more annoyed/unfriendly in their approach to her in the past, or if she felt that the content of the letters you mentioned was "aggressive". Whether she's on board with it or not, the truth of the matter is that there is an uncertain number of cats at high risk at the moment, and also an uncertain number of kittens who are facing a potentially terrible death. If the cats are hers, she could potentially face prosecution for neglect, mistreatment and even cruelty, especially considering the conditions in which you found Cobbles and his siblings, locked in a shed with no access to mammy cat and therefore no food, water or proper shelter. I'm not suggesting you should report her just yet, especially if she's indeed suffering from a mental illness, but would you/your residents' association perhaps consider contacting a TNR or rescue group, or even a sympathetic vet and ask for advice? They may have encountered something similar before and might be able to help...

Sorry, this is yet another one of my long posts....:o

Shakespeare's Sister

Oh! Now there's a beautiful thing. He's unreal!

His eyes are just divine!

damagegt

I'm off to Dublin for a few days now.I think I'm getting separation anxiety

New Home

damagegt wrote: »

I'm off to Dublin for a few days now.I think I'm getting separation anxiety

Now you know how WE've been feeling...

Raminahobbin

damagegt wrote: »

I'm off to Dublin for a few days now.I think I'm getting separation anxiety

But But!!
Can you not bring Finbarr??
Who will mind him? Who will update us??

damagegt

Raminahobbin wrote: »

But But!!
Can you not bring Finbarr??
Who will mind him? Who will update us??

Not this time.He would have to be with me all day and as much as I wouldn't mind that,others might.
Hes with my sister and she son,who has fallen in love with him.Ill try get them to send me some pictures but If not ill be back down on Tuesday.I'm sure u'll all be fine.:)