We know you are doing your best, Tracy, and your best far exceeds most people's "best". I'm staggered that your rescue cats have ringworm so very badly, especially Jackson. If I'm ready to tear my hair out in frastration at what you are going through, I don't know how you manage to cope.

I don't know about you, but what I find even more discouraging than the constant cleaning, laundry, medicating, etc. is the isolation we have to put these kittens through. Cattalus, in spite of being with his brother and sister in isolation, is so utterly desperate for me to give him more constant and closer affection that he rubs his head hard against the bag of food as I hold it over their bowls. I have to hold the bowl and bag in the air to pour out the food because anywhere I put the bowl down, he jumps up to bang against it. He does, of course, equate feeding with mom and comfort. Ashley, as I dreaded, got it last and so the isolation will continue for at least another month. She has it in one of the worst possible places, right across her nose and into the corners of her eyes. I can't shampoo the area, it's too dangerous for her eyes so have to rely on q-tipping lotion onto the lesion. She is one that I would put on oral med if I could but it looks like she also has IBS so her system couldn't cope with that harsh medication.

Please continue to keep us updated. We are all going to worry about Jackson, about you, and about all the Olney kittens.

Here's an idea. Can you find out how much it would cost for a course of oral medication for each cat and post it. Perhaps some of us can sponsor one cat's medication. Broken down like that, we can keep chipping away at the problem.