New foster mommy (siamese) and her 4 kittens

Hi guys,
just wanted to introduce you to my new fosters. I don't have a picture yet, as I am leaving her alone a little to recover from the stress of coming from the shelter to my home.
She is a beautiful siamese with the bluest eyes I have ever seen in a cat. She has white fur with beige and grey markings on her face. They told me at the shelter that she is a good mother, but really protective, so I will have to gain her trust.
She has four kittens, they are about 10 days old, as their eyes are just starting to open. The kittens are half-siamese and are, of course, absolutely adorable. There are two white kittens, one grey and one orange. I haven't figured out the sex yet, most of them seemed like boys at first look, but I will confirm that when I post pictures.
I still need to find them all names!

Oh there is nothing like kittens! I envy you watching them change day to day.

My feral, Slick had kittens a year ago, six of them! I would lay on the floor with them when they were about 4 weeks old and I was covered in kittens! There is nothing much better than that!

Have fun, and you sure have a good heart to do this.

Here are some pictures to properly introduce them to you guys
I wish I had taken better pictures, but it will have o do for now, as I want to keep them away from the light.
Imagine her with eyes blue like the ocean




She is such a good mommy to he kittens, always purring, cleaning them or letting them nurse relentlessly.

Family pictures






And some baby pics
The grey one sleeping on his (not sure of the gender yet, though!) back.


The orange one not so happy to be held in order to be weighed on the scale


One ofthe white ones, this one has darker ears. He was suckling his thumb instants before this picture, it was the cutest thing! But obviously, by the time I took the camera out, he was asleep like that.


They all weight between 145 and 209 grams. The just love to be pet, they roll around and purr when I rub my finger on their bellies, neck and back. This is my third foster litter and I tell you, each one is so different from the other! These litle guys and their mommy are angels.

Oh how gorgeous they all are! What a beautiful Mommy!

So cute!

I love the pic of the one sleeping on his (her?) back!

The mom has apparently accepted your presence by now?? Swell!

I dont think she is a siamese. But she may be a balinese (= semilonghaired siameses; their faces arent either quite as much pronounced as is in modern siameses).

A lovely lady, a very good mother as you tell it, and nice kids!

I wont say anything about the rescuer, I dont want you to blush too much!


Tx, and good luck!

StefanZ, you are probably right, I know nothing about cat breeds, all the cat I've been owned by were domestic cats previously. She sure has something exotic and very elegant in her.
Yes she did accept my presence. At first she growled a little when I came in the room, but she let me pet her and really liked it. So I purposely went in the room to pet her several times yesterday and today. I would just pet her and then pet her kittens, then sit and watch them for 5-10 minutes and then leave to room and let them alone.

Now, after being here for only 30 hours, she doesn't mind at all when I come in the room and I can even handle her kittens. She won't worry except if they cry, then she we'll have a worried look on her face and she will try to pick them up and bring them back to the nest! I only handle one at the time and for a few seconds only though, so she doesn't really have the time to worry much.

They thought at the shelter that she was a cat living on the streets, but I am sure she has been living with humans before because she loves my presence even though she is protective with her kittens.

That's it for now, gotta go weight the little ones and figure out who's a boy and who's a girl!

She looks like a tortie point Siamese (that is to say, she's a pointed cat, with tortoiseshell points) to me, but almost certainly just the ordinary pointed type of cat, whose genes run all through our domestic cats, nowadays. I'm sure she has blue eyes, too. And I'll bet the little "white" kitten is also pointed.

Yes, I knew she had tortie in her! Her eyes are very blue, it is impressive to look at in the light of the sun (wich I could see at the shelter). Unfortunately I don't get to see those blue eyes much because I like to keep to room dark for the kittens. The two white (or really pale beige, I am not sure) kittens are pointed too, because I noticed their ears are a little darker (one has beige ears, the other one has brown or grey ears).
Her face looks like one of my friend's cat whose genes are a mix of siamese and balinese (I think it was called Tonkinese??).
She is so beautiful and her love for her kittens touches me so much. She really looks at them with love in her eyes and she always cuddles them, I had never seen that before (three previous foster litter: 2 without a mom and one with a first time young mom not knowing exactly what to do!) I think I am in love with her already and I am not sure I will be able to let her go.

Awww!
She looks like a fantastic mom, and those are some big, adorable kittens!

What a beautful mother! I know nothing about breeds either, but I just love dilute tortoishell cats! And of course, the babies are adorable !! I had a foster mommy with kittens last year that was pretty scared of people too- if she'll let you touch her, try rubbing her cheeks and neck-they usually love that. And of course, talking is a good way to make friends too!
Anyway, good luck with these sweeties! And thanks for fostering!

Quick update! Everybody is doing fine and they are all gaining weight everyday (about 7 grams a day except for the grey chubby one who can gain 15 grams a day!). Their eyes are almost all open.

There is one kittens that worries me a little, one of his eye is a little crusty and won't open. Now I remember seeing here the procedure of how to take the crust off the eye, but I don't know how to find it. I know it has to be very sterile and done the proper way, so could somebody send me the link to this thread or article I have seen please? If I don't get an answer I will post a new thread about this. For now I don't think it is dangerous because the colour of the crust is not worrying (it is just brown crust), but I would like to take it off and see if she opens her eye. And yes, this one is a she (the palest white one) and the 3 others (the darker white one (that's funny to say), the grey and the orange one) are males. At least I think so!

Overall they are adorable. I think they hear me now, as I see their little ears moving when I talk to them and their head moving toward me. They also know my smell and still love when I gently rub my finger on their little bellies. Will post more pictures soon.

Mommy really like me now. She comes to me and rolls on the floor while purring her little heart out when I pet her.
I have tons of ideas for names, but I want to wait until I know them a bit more before making up my mind.

Try dabbing some warm water on the eye to melt away the crust. That almost always will open the eye, although it may close again. Keep dabbing at it with water, and if, after 4-5 days it still keeps shutting, you can use polysporin eye and ear drops on the eye after you've opened it with warm water, and that should clear it up. If not, you'll probably need to see a vet.
Oh, and is this the link you were looking for?
http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54375

Your momcat and kittens are all adorable.
I agree with mrblanche that the momcat looks like a tortie point siamese mix cat with dilute markings.
The two lighter kittens will have their points darken up as they get older and they will end up looking more like their mom than the other two kittens.
I don't see Balinese in them since that would give them longer fur and a fluffy tail like my cat Izzy has.
Please keep posting pictures of the mom and kittens as they grow, I can't wait to see how cute they are when they are running around all over the place.

Thanks for the help Cutekittenkat! I will get to it right away! And it was the link I remember reading, I should have known it was right under my nose all this time in a sticky post!

Oh my gosh, something reeaaally scary just happened!
I did manage to take the crust off the little one's eye and she did open her eye, but it was white! So, I wasn't sure if it was pus or the actual color of the eye, but of course I freaked out. I had already read that if the kitten's eye appear solid blue or white to take him/her to the vet right away. Obviously it's sunday night, so I call the E-vet in a crisis while my boyfriend gets together a heating pad, blankets, a box, bottles and KMR for a quick trip to the vet (the kitten being only 2 weeks old, I find it stressful to take her away from mommy even if it is just for an hour or less). Well, the vet tech tells me on the phone that it is probably the second (or third?) eye lid still being closed wich would give this color and to wait until tomorrow morning before going to the vet. Good thing I called before leaving. So I hang up and, next thing I know, the little doll is looking at me (well, looking somewhere toward my direction!) with her two eyes wide open... and blue! The vet technician was just right and me... well I apparently had no reason to worry and I felt sooo relieved!
Just had to share this story.
I think I will call this kitten Alice. I don't know why, it sounds like a pure name to me, suiting her white (soon to be pointed) fur. Fragile yet strong.
Only 4 more names to find!

Wow, that does seem like quite the scare! I'm glad everything turned out alright! You're very lucky to have a vet to call before going to an emergency vet. Alice sounds like such a nice name...I always take so much time naming my fosters! I wonder if any of the babies are going to get torti points like their mom...I just can't get over how pretty she is!

So, she DID have pus in her eye, because this morning when I dabbed warm water on her eye so she could open it there was definitely pus in it. I had to work from 11:00AM- 4:00PM and then from 6:00 - 9:00PM, so I rushed to whole fur-family to the e-vet (at 9 in the morning ). I wanted them all to come to make sure she wouldn't miss feedings (she is the lightest) and stayed warm.
Well the vet sounded like a complete idiot to me, couln't even figure out if the kittens were boys or girls. She said they might be all boys, but wasn't sure. Couldn't figure out either what was the problem with her (although she might be a "he" now, I don't know!) eye. But was definitely worried by it. And of course, one problem never comes alone, they all started sneezing today. I am scared they will all develop URI (they have only been at my house for a few days and I don't know how long at the shelter and it can take a week to develop once they catch it) Anyways, we are covering everything for her eye with antibiotics and Atropine. All in all, it is only 6 drops a day (5 in the eye and .05 ml of clavamox in the mouth) If it is not better in 4 days, we will take serum from the mother and I will have to give it to her every hour.
It is very hard to give her the eye drops, because the eye is swolen and won't open much. Poor doll, I hope it is not to painfull for her.
I trimmed all their nails from their front paws, as they are fighting quite hard for milk sometimes (impressive considerng they are 2 weeks and a few days old).
They are all still eating even though I hear a sneeze here and there. Mommy sneezes too. They might all need Clavamox eventually, but this might just pass on its own though. Let's hope I don't have to put them all on antibiotics and bottle feed them and forcefeed the mother.
I hope the tiny one's eye gets better fast, it worries me so much. At least she/he is still gaining weight and seems strong despite the fact she/he is the lightest.
To be positive, here are a few pics taken in the past 3 days.

This one of the white boy (the one without eye problem) and his mommy is precious


This is the little grey one on top o his mom' s head looking really comfortable. He was the first one to open his eyes. He is also the heaviest and the only one with semi-long fur.


Again, the white healthy boy (he is darker and also heaviest than the othr white one). Don't worry, his nail are now trimmed!


The orange one getting some love from mommy


He is precious


And my little Alice (or Jimmy, depending if it's a she or a he!). This was taken beforeher eyes opened and the eye on the left did not seem that badat his time. Yesterday when she started opening her eye it was starting to look swollen.


Long post! Gotta go to work now!

You might have some success with "Opti-Clear," which you can get at the pet store. Soak a corner of a clean cloth and wipe the eye well.

Check for a PM.

OMG they are a beautiful family! Momma has that lean, elegant look of a Siamese, including the narrow, triangular face - but definitely a "mutt cat" with Meezer genes... not a purebred. She has what I call meezer cheekbones! My Ghostie has them!