Hi guys!
I really apologize for my lack of activity. It's jsut been hectic. I'll definitely do my best to start back up again!
Anyway. Zoey is doing swell, but this isn't about here. On Monday mornin I heard a kittie wailing from our... Guess what? Oil pit! It's just a big hole in the ground, a cement block, we park the trucks over it and stand beneath to change the oil, you know. Luckily, it's dry, and out of the wind because the wind has been horrendous. Anyway, I went down... And in the corner by a bucket were two baby dark grey/black and white mottled kitties, about 3 or 4 weeks I'm guessing. I was pretty sure they were abandoned. One was kind of hissy and the other screamed bad. I fed them twice that day (kitten chow soaked in whole milk, it's what I had at the time) and wiped their butts. Yesterday, did the same. The screaming one looked really scrawny and weak and always cried and wouldn't eat much or poop at all. The other one ate like a pig and did well it seemed.
This morning (Wednesday) I went to check on them... The scrawny one is dead.
I didn't really expect him to live. I should have brought them inside, but I still don't think he would have lived at all. Something was wrong with the one that died, maybe something internally, I don't know. So we brought the remaining one (he's bigger and healthier) up here to the yard and let him run around with our cat clan. (we have some adults, some 6 month olds, and some 3 month olds) He only got swatted twice, and he got to playing with our little 3 months old kittens. Finally he started crying because everybody started napping and he was lonely. (We have some bushed, sme holes in the shed wall, flower pots to sleep and play and hide in but he is just so small.) So I brought him in and fed him. In two feedings, he has drank some milk and eaten almost a whole can of Fancy Feast (chicken heart and liver in gravy I think)!!! He peed once. Now I a slumped in the office chair, he is on my chest with a hoodie over him, snoozing. He's very calm, peaceful, with an adorable purr (he's been purring alot!) and a quiet meow. I'll take some pics of him later, he has the most adorable markings.
Mom won't stand for another house cat, and neither will Daddy. Zoey came in because she was white and we all fell in love with her and didn't want the coyotes to get her since she is so easy to see with her light coloring. I don't really know what to do with him though! We took Jenny who is our main momma cat (all of our docile cats are in some way related to her) and held her down and tried to let him nurse her. She was calm about it, and has milk from her litter she is slowly weaning, but he didn't know how to take the nipple, I guess he has already forgotten.
But he has a tummy full of warm food and he can kind of go to the bathroom by himself now.
Sleeping arrangements. I have a cat crate, but like I said, Mom doesn't want another house cat. But it's starting to get below freezing here at night! I don't know what to do.
Pictures soon. Please pray that he will continue to grow and be healthy! (Still asleep under the hoodie on my chest
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I really apologize for my lack of activity. It's jsut been hectic. I'll definitely do my best to start back up again!
Anyway. Zoey is doing swell, but this isn't about here. On Monday mornin I heard a kittie wailing from our... Guess what? Oil pit! It's just a big hole in the ground, a cement block, we park the trucks over it and stand beneath to change the oil, you know. Luckily, it's dry, and out of the wind because the wind has been horrendous. Anyway, I went down... And in the corner by a bucket were two baby dark grey/black and white mottled kitties, about 3 or 4 weeks I'm guessing. I was pretty sure they were abandoned. One was kind of hissy and the other screamed bad. I fed them twice that day (kitten chow soaked in whole milk, it's what I had at the time) and wiped their butts. Yesterday, did the same. The screaming one looked really scrawny and weak and always cried and wouldn't eat much or poop at all. The other one ate like a pig and did well it seemed.
This morning (Wednesday) I went to check on them... The scrawny one is dead.
Mom won't stand for another house cat, and neither will Daddy. Zoey came in because she was white and we all fell in love with her and didn't want the coyotes to get her since she is so easy to see with her light coloring. I don't really know what to do with him though! We took Jenny who is our main momma cat (all of our docile cats are in some way related to her) and held her down and tried to let him nurse her. She was calm about it, and has milk from her litter she is slowly weaning, but he didn't know how to take the nipple, I guess he has already forgotten.
Sleeping arrangements. I have a cat crate, but like I said, Mom doesn't want another house cat. But it's starting to get below freezing here at night! I don't know what to do.
Pictures soon. Please pray that he will continue to grow and be healthy! (Still asleep under the hoodie on my chest
