POWER OUTAGE! Troubleshooting Kitten Care Without Electricity

I'm fostering bottle babies and when we had power outages, and I had to be creative. Thankfully it doesn't happen on a regular basis but when it happens it catches you of guard. Especially when you don't know how long it will last. For heating water up, I used the backyard grill; I used hot water bottles for keeping the babies warm. 2 years ago, we invested in a Generac. We had power outages since, and it only takes 20 sec, and we have power again. For us it was worth the cost. This video is great, because we don't think about it until it happens. Thank you for posting a video about it.

That’s what you did to make your kittens bottle is what my mom did for me. When I was a baby. She couldn’t breast-feed me. She took too many pills.
(poop)

Loadshedding…. 2-4 hours a day sometimes weeks without power in South Africa

Hope you have a whole house generator now.

Hannah, the first thing I thought of the incubator. Fergie says it’s not the same. 3:11

Kitten Lady, can you do an emergency prep video about fire safety, and setting up an evacuation plan for your animals? I follow a reptile rescue channel (Snake Discovery), them talking about fire preparedness helped me create a plan for my own kitty, and I think you reach a different audience than they do.

I imagine you're always in a good position, because you keep rescue supplies in your car at all times for new kittens on the road, but emphasizing that for your viewers can only help, I think.

Filling from the canister is much easier and mess-free if you place the canister on the side instead of with the opening to the front.
How warm do you have to keep cats in a country where it's so warm you can walk around in shorts? In our neighborhood there is a tomcat who can hardly stand being at home and travels a lot in the area. Almost every farmer here has several cats that have never seen the inside of the house. In winter you can clearly see their tracks in the snow. They don't care if electricity is available or not.

Spud be like yells in tater tot

Ok, for anyone who doesn’t know. You’re not supposed to press down on the “safety” and pour a canister. You put the nozzle in the tank like you do when filling a car. That “safety” rests on the lip of the tank and the weight from the canister pushes down on it to keep it open. That way, if the nozzle slips out of the tank, it triggers the “safety” and stops it from spilling gas everywhere. Also, if you leave the nozzle in the tank and the gas fills over the tip of the nozzle, the pressure will stop the gas from over filling the tank.

(I know this is an old video but) I just wanna come out there and be your resident Country Girl lolol. We all have out strengths. Making do during hardships is something we're great at. 😛 Love you for all you do!!

it was so smart to do that

I just want to know if she plugged all the fountains back in for Fergie! It's inhumane to let a cat drink like a peasant!

Late to the game but may I recommend reptile warmers? They’re like giant hand warmers that are set up to keep an iguana or snake from entering torpor for 24 hours. We have parakeets and our emergency kit includes hutches and a stack of reptile warmers

Hi! I wanted to show you something I recently found out about, power stations are really popular here in Japan. And you don’t need fuel ! So in the event of a power outage, and you can’t get gas, try a power station, or a Jackery. Or something similar. You can hook up solar panels to it to charge it.
We got on and it works amazing. You can also charge your devices with it. Something to look into