Author: Anthony Olszewski

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Kittens found outside separated from a community cat mom need immediate care. If at all possible, bring all the kittens and mom inside. The mother will do a better job of cleaning and feeding than you.

If the eyes are still closed, the baby is less than 10 days old.

Kittens need warmth. I use an adhesive reptile heater underneath a large Pyrex baking dish. So the kittens are not burnt and can choose a temperature they prefer, various layers of towels are placed on top of the glass.

Supplemental heating isn’t used if the mother is present.

Mother and infants can be kept in a large dog cage. The problem will be when the babies start walking. The wide bars of the dog enclosure will allow kittens to get out or catch their necks and suffocate. The growing kittens and their mother need to go in a cat playpen with closely spaced wires.

Kittens do not draw formula from a bottle by suction. They swallow as the fluid is gently squeezed from the bottle. You can’t just stick the nipple in the kitten’s mouth. You need to apply pressure to the bottle to squirt milk replacer in coordination with the kitten’s swallowing. Too much is at best a mess. The baby can suffocate.

Bottles need to be frequently thoroughly washed. I’ll keep one for a day in the fridge, warming in the microwave between feeding. After a day, any formula left in the bottle is discarded and the bottle cleaned. Float the bottle with the milk replacer in large coffee mug containing some water. This makes it easier to warm the formula in the microwave.

Defecation and urination has to be stimulated before and/or after meals by rubbing gently a kitten’s tummy and bottom with a warm, wet paper towel.

If the kittens were separated from mom outside for an extended period of time, look very closely at any scratch or other wound. Maggots (myiasis) can be a big problem. If maggots are present, they must be flushed out of the wound. Gently apply to the surrounding area (not directly in the wound) a cat flea spray using a ball of cotton or small piece of paper towels. Keep flies out of the kitten room.

The kittens will very likely need to be treated for fleas and roundworms. Check the directions on the products. Immediately, kill fleas with a feline flea spray on a ball of cotton or small piece of paper towel. The roundworm medication will probably be given when the kittens are some weeks old.

Any towels in with the kittens need to be removed and washed often.

Once the kitten’s eyes are open, watch for any crud buildup. Gently wipe it off. Don’t let the eyes go shut. My understanding is that the mucus is from a Herpes virus harmless to people. (Of course, hygiene does need to be observed.) The complication is that the virus can be followed by a secondary bacterial infection. This will damage or destroy the eye. Chewy and others have an OTC terramycin eye ointment. Of course, a trip to the vet is best. This can cost $350 to $450 for two kittens.

Keep the kittens away from your own pets until it’s certain that the little ones are healthy, disease and parasite free. When handling a rescue infant, have a towel on your lap. DO wash your hands when you are done. Disposable rubber gloves are great.

Donating any car, SUV, truck, motorcycle, or boat to Metro Cat Rescue helps us help kittens and cats in need — AND can mean a BIG TAX DEDUCTION for you! Metro Cat Rescue still needs a van or large SUV for our own use.

Donations of tools, game consoles, action figures, silver coins, and other nice things that we can sell on eBay are great, too.

Do you have empty retail space for rent? Consider donating it monthly to Metro Cat Rescue for our Garage Sale fundraisers until your location is leased to a conventional tenant.

The email address is MetroCatRescue@gmail.com
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Metro Cat Rescue is a 501(c)(3). Donations, gifts, and bequests are US tax deductible. You can also check if your employer has a corporate matching gift program.

Look at the pictures at the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page to see just some of the many cats that we’ve helped.
https://www.facebook.com/MetroCatRescue/

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Help Metro Cat Rescue help kittens and cats in need. Donate at the Metro Cat Rescue GoFundMe Page.

When anyone has a medical emergency, they need immediate professional care! DON’T RISK DEATH BY CROWDSOURCING!

Behavioral Psychology reduces itself to absurdity when it tells parents not to comfort a crying infant. CATS ARE NOT LITTLE PEOPLE! If a cat is upset, leave it alone! If it can be done safely, get the cat in an enclosed space (bathroom, cat playpen, etc.) If a frantic cat is in a playpen or a carrier, cover the enclosure with a large towel, sheet, or (if the room temperature is not warm) a blanket. The darkness gives cats a sense of security.

If the health of a cat has not been verified by a veterinarian, keep the new cat in a separate space from your current pet(s). A cat just brought in will very likely have fleas. Make sure that cats currently in your care are up to date with flea medication. Without doubt, fleas will hitch a ride on your clothes and soon infest the whole house.

Until and unless tested, assume that a new cat has FIV and/or FeLV. These are contagious feline diseases.

Strangely, many ignorant and delusional people think that simply seeing a cat in the area means that there is a risk of disease. Sadly, this includes all too many Oncologists and Gynecologists. These who should know better, at the very least, don’t understand Parasitology. (I often wonder if a complete lack of knowledge of Germ Theory is the real problem and there’s a belief in miasmas and emanations.)

When actually HANDLING a cat, there are disease risks — from ringworm to rabies. Zoonotic disease is a particular concern with feral cats.
Viruses
(rabies, cowpox)
Bacteria
(anthrax, campylobacter infection, cat scratch disease, diphtheria, leptospirosis, listeriosis, Lyme disease, plague, salmonellosis, shigellosis, streptococcal infection, tularemia, and yersinia infection, rickettsiae, Q fever)
Fungi
(blastomycosis, dermatophytoses, spororrichosis)
Helminths
(cutaneous and visceral larval migrans)
Cestodes
(dipylidiasis, echinococcus)
Protozoa
(amebiasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, toxoplasmosis, trichomoniasis); and ectoparasites (scabies)
(Lappin 1993).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195561693500049
Under Viruses, influenza can be included. (Cats have been infected by people with SARS CoV 2. I don’t know of any case of a person becoming sick with CoViD 19 through a cat.)

Even with a known healthy cat, introductions must be made with care. There’s NO REASON to think that the current feline resident will be immediately happy when another cat is brought to the home. The perception will be that the new cat is an intruder. To start, have the recent arrival in a cat playpen or large dog carrier. When the cats begin to interact in a positive manner through the bars, then they can be allowed together under supervision.

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Giving any amount will be a huge help. Unfortunately, right now we have no idea what our funding will be next month — or even next week. Helping to make it possible for Metro Cat Rescue to plan for the future will mean so many more kittens and cats will be saved.

Metro Cat Rescue is a 501(c)(3). EIN Assigned: 82-0701118. Donations, gifts, and bequests are US tax deductible. You can also check if your employer has a corporate matching gift program.

Take a look at the Photos on the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page and you’ll see just some of the many cats that we’ve helped.
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Many hours are spent each day feeding, washing bowls, providing worm medicine and laundering the cats’ beds. So that Metro Cat Rescue can do more, we need your help! We’ve run out of space to take in any additional cats. And there’s the time — with the kittens and moms that we have here now, the day starts at 6am and ends at 11pm.

Metro Cat Rescue needs a bigger and better space. We also need the funds to hire someone — at least — part time to help with the chores.

Metro Cat Rescue has no cushion of dedicated funds for medical care. As it stands now, for each and every vet visit — standard checkups and neutering, too, not just emergencies — has to be paid for by pleading for help on Facebook. This sometimes means that a sick cat suffers for days waiting for medical attention.

Metro Cat Rescue receives no grants or taxpayer dollars. To help kittens and cats in need, we rely on community support. So that Metro Cat Rescue can continue this mission and do more, we need your help. It’s quick and convenient and safe to use this Link to the Metro Cat Rescue GoFundMe Page:
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Metro Cat Rescue is in DIRE need of support! EVERY day we get requests that we don’t have the resources to assist with. This means that kittens are born in the street because no one helps us to help them. PLEASE DONATE!
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The dream of Metro Cat Rescue is to establish a facility to provide care for homeless kittens and cats with easily treated but contagious conditions — those innocents that now elsewhere regularly are made to die. Sadly, a lack of funds has kept Metro Cat Rescue’s goal on a distant horizon.

Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies. Click on the Link to DONATE. If everyone reading this gave SOMETHING, we’d be well on the way to providing for homeless cats that now need to fend for themselves. THANK YOU!

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Success isn’t to be expected for every effort, and that’s especially true for the first step on a new path. That certainly was so for Anthony Olszewski and animal rescue. When only in the third grade, he witnessed a bat being knocked off the side of a house by water from a hose. Young Anthony tried to save the bat. Sad to relate, the story did not have a happy ending for the winged mammal — and almost the same for its would-be helper. The bat quickly died of Rabies, but not before delivering a solid nip to a finger.

The boy got sent to Isolation at the old Jersey City Medical Center where — allergic to the vaccine — he experienced episodes of shock, His parents were told to expect him to die. Luckily, Anthony managed to survive and went on to one day establish Metro Cat Rescue.

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Metro Cat Rescue needs your help! We are DROWNING in bills for food, medical costs and supplies.

Here’s the Link to help Metro Cat Rescue help kittens and cats in need:
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If everyone reading this clicked on the DONATE button and gave ONE DOLLAR monthly, we’d be well on the way to providing for suffering cats left to fend for themselves. THANK YOU!

Metro Cat Rescue is a 501(c)(3). Donations, gifts, and bequests are US tax deductible.
EIN Assigned: 82-0701118
You can also check if your employer has a corporate matching gift program.

Look at the pictures at the Metro Cat Rescue Facebook Page to see just some of the many cats that we’ve helped.
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The New Yorker article by Jonathan Franzen on community cats contains distortions and factual errors. Here are a few of the worst:

“Recently I found a squirrel with its limbs torn off and guts hanging out in my back yard.”
This must have been an extremely small squirrel and/or an extremely large cat. I’ve seen many squirrels in areas where community cats are cared for. I’ve never noticed a cat hunting or expressing any interest in a squirrel. I have observed shredded squirrel parts out in the open under a place where a hawk could roost.

“A more widespread threat is toxoplasmosis, which is caused by a parasite that cannot reproduce without cats, ….”
Toxoplasma gondii reproduces asexually in any warm blooded animal. Infection in people is generally due to the consumption of undercooked meat.

“In the past fifty years, their [birds] base population has fallen by thirty per cent, from an estimated ten billion in 1970….The greatest of these threats are … a non-native predatory species, cats.”
Cats have been here since the time of the Pilgrims. The collapse in the number of birds has happened over the course of some decades. This is in step with the acceleration of climate change. The insects and other small arthropods that many birds eat and/or feed their young are also disappearing. Rats and mice are a problem in cities. In the suburbs and rural areas deer mice that carry the ticks spreading Lyme Disease are widespread. The cats are not bothering the rodents, but they are exterminating birds? Really? There are less and less birds all over the world. Cats are a global threat? Really?

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A body of junk science has compiled “facts” that are not true fermented by interpretations that are skewed. (This is so obvious one has to wonder if the the supposed researchers are actually intentional propagandists, twisting reality to support some preconceived notion? Or is their cognitive processing burdened by a Freudian complex? Cats as a symbol of freedom activating repressed material?)

Then along can come Jonathan Franzen to slice and dice the supposedly scientific garbage and serve it up with a sauce of his own tunnel vision observations. A “cheerful plenitude” of malarkey indeed. And by the way — are The New Yorker editors inept? Or was Franzen’s copy believed to be in the same league as Shakespeare’s and so immune from red ink?

Dan Werner has been waging an Online campaign of vilification against me, Jersey City Free Books and Metro Cat Rescue. I never heard of him until he started posting reviews with false accusations.

Dan Werner has never met me, has never been to Jersey City Free Books and has had no interaction with Metro Cat Rescue.

The ridiculous reason for Dan Werner’s rage against me is the policy of Jersey City Free Books — a resource for students and serious readers — of discouraging the donation of Mysteries, Thrillers, Romances, Self Help and Celebrity Biography.

Dan Werner posted on Facebook asking people to send rumors about me. It might be that someone has sent him lies and they and Dan Werner think that that can be spread with impunity. Dan Werner is not a reporter and sending him lies is not acting as a confidential source. I will warn anyone feeding Dan Werner falsehoods to remember he can be ordered by a court to reveal your name.

Not only am I not supporting myself by Metro Cat Rescue, I’ve all but gone into bankruptcy from caring for the cats. I’ve sustained a poor diet for myself so that the cats could eat well. I was frequently bed ridden with pain from years of poor nutrition until a relative sent me a couple of bottles of vitamins. I was wearing shoes that were falling apart until the same relative sent me a new pair. A great friend to Metro Cat Rescue was buying a new SUV. Their original vehicle with many miles had virtually no trade in value. They gave that old Lexus to us. I had a relatively new, low mileage Honda Civic. I sold that to pay bills. Unfortunately, the SUV does not fit in the garage, so now there’s monthly $200 parking, yet another bill that has to be paid. During Tropical Storm Ida, I was on the road because a cat needed emergency surgery. A side view mirror was damaged when a splash hit the car after encountering flood water at 40 miles an hour. I’ve not had the money to get that mirror fixed. The accusation of profiting from helping cats is not just a lie, but a bizarre, vicious, and obvious lie.

Dan Werner had also texted me suggesting that I seek out a therapist. He’s posted suggestions of mental illness concerning me.

Unwilling or unable to do anything positive himself, the vandal defaces what others have built. Dan Werner has been harassing me Online since 2019. He has also been hurting others. Dan Werner has been similarly attacking an African – American woman in San Diego who runs a race relations organization.

“… when Mr. Dan Werner came into our metaphorical living room, much like last year, lobbing perjoratives (sic) and threats, just like last year, attempting to pipe bomb the windows and smear feces on the wall.”
https://www.facebook.com/laceonrace/videos/709231737099211

The “research” showing that cats are responsible for the collapse of bird populations is of the obviously lame-brained sort. Cats have been in North America since the time of the Pilgrims. Birds have begun to disappear in the last few decades — in step with climate change.

Since deer mice are a link in the transmission of Lyme Disease, why is that a growing problem? Why are the mobs of cats out there exterminating song birds not wiping out the deer mice?

The loss of birds is probably due to insects also becoming few — the food for many birds and the nestlings of many of those that eat seeds as adults. (With the rule proving exception of the Lanternfly.) 50 – 60 years ago, at night in the summer there’d be galaxies of gnats and moths around any outdoor light. Look now. It’s a surprise to see any.

And on the topic of the research being nonsense, the problem isn’t that migratory birds from the wilds of Canada and the jungles of Central America are being exterminated by cats in the US suburbs. The birds are gone. They aren’t coming here. Feral cats swarming in the wild places of Canada and Central America are killing of the birds there?

There very likely are less cats in the US now because of coyotes. Migratory birds are disappearing in the northern and southern wilderness. And that’s because of cats in the US? And this is at a time of climate catastrophe. And that has nothing to do with the disappearing birds? And the insects that birds eat are gone, too. Are cats to blame? The urban areas were teaming with Starlings in the same neighborhoods with feral cats. That was so for a century or so, but now there are less Starlings.

Contrasted with community cats in urban settings — the first line of defense against rodents and disease — cats should not be allowed to roam in rural areas or sensitive environments. Pet cats should be kept inside. Cats should be relocated from places where endangered species live. That cared for colonies of city cats are a problem for native birds is nonsense. Especially considering the slaughter of the innocents caused by widows on office buildings.

There are the supposed authorities claiming a cat population explosion. How was this determined? An army of feline census takers checked every nook and cranny in the wilds of the US? The pet cat population has increased many times over. Very likely the same for urban community cats. The cats eaten by coyotes in rural areas certainly aren’t adding to any increase in the numbers of cats. I have not often gone out to the country, but in FLA i did hear about lots of feral pigs. Nobody said anything about swarms of cats. Driving on the roads between FLA, TX and NJ, I saw lots of dead armadillos, raccoons and
oppossums, and a coyote, but no cats.

Science sadly is shot through with hucksters hustling for the next grant. Before I trust any census of cats in the deep woods, I’d like an explanation of where Omicron came from. The most studied thing on the planet— and well funded— and everyone is clueless.

I find it particularly ironic that Australia — long bent on the supposed protection of the environment via cat extermination — has been beset by apocalyptic fires and floods.

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“Notably, cats eat prey across nearly the full range of sizes … The largest vertebrate species reported …were the …domestic cow (Bos taurus;
760 kg). We detected no obvious thresholds in body mass of the diet, although many of the largest species recorded were likely to have been depredated …”

A global synthesis and assessment of free-ranging domestic cat diet

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42766-6

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After Ulisse Aldrovandi, generations called elaborate nonsense “a cock and bull story.”  After this twisted paper, the phrase can change to “a cat and cow story.”

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Meander was found weak and hungry, wandering the streets. The thought was that perhaps he was lost and so might be returned home. To determine where that was, we applied Age Regression Therapy. Unfortunately, Meander was too young then now to recall anything like clearly his original location.

When it seemed that the path back in time was blocked, an amazing breakthrough occurred: a veritable tsunami of memories of past lives. The feline consciousness flew to Warhol’s studio, from there to Hemingway’s house in Cuba, next Churchill’s study and then the Lincoln White House. As research continues, through Meander’s recollection, light — albeit a narrow beam — is shining on more and more distant events. We’ve just begun the documentation of his presence in Laketown at the time of the death of Smaug.