Well, the past week has been crazy in my house - on top of my 3 boys, I've had 3 feral kittens to care for!
I volunteer at my local Humane Society and as there's only 2 of us spending the summer in a 4 bedroom house, I offered to be a foster volunteer as well - and was soon offered 4 little 6 week old bundles of fluff! One had a wound on it's lip, and the shelter decided to keep him seperate, as he has a special diet and needs to be watched extra closely to make sure he's eating... so I only got 3..but 3 is plenty!
The first few days I couldn't go anywhere, because one had badly wounded the person who had found them, and was therefore on rabies quarantine (law around here - with any blood - saliva interaction with unowned animals, said animal goes on quarantine for 10 days) and no one could handle him but me. Then this same kitten started to develope a bad URI
Thankfully, it only really got bad Monday - the last day of his quarantine - and an ACO from the shelter came and brought him to the vet. He's doing much better now
Anyhow, here's my 3 babies:
Goose - possibly not from the same litter, suspected to be a week younger then the others. (so, 7 weeks now) A grey tabby, originally very needy and demanding of cuddles, but now that he's over his URI he's a regular houdini and orchestrates jail breaks every time I enter the kitten room! (trying to keep them separated from my boys until the antibiotics are done) Loud purr, louder cry - which he excercises often.
Wolfie - a black long haired kitten, VERY mouthy and while he loves to be cuddle, and asks for pettings with his small squeak of a mew, it doens't take long before he tries to eat my fingers
He has a purr you can only feel, but such a sweet face
He's lived up to his name - blink and you miss it when he eats his dinner (they all get a small amount of canned food at night) Something about him rubs my cat Charlie the wrong way, because if Charlie is around when they escape their room, he'll hiss quite soundly at Wolfie (but not the others)
Although... Charlie normally swears like a sailor at other cats, so maybe the hissing is him taking it easy on a youngin' ?
Rottweiller - my favourite
A Manx X, about 1 inch of tail, all black. Very expressive with his little stump
Purrs like a mad man almost constantly, and is very adventurous. Was the first to go downstairs on a jail break... and the first time he was very good at it! the second timehe rolled 2 or 3 stairs at a time, as he was trying to run down the steps
Very playful, and likes to chew on other's tails. (jealousy?
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They are such a joy - they'll be with us until they are about 10-11 weeks old, at which point they'll be neutered, then they'll stay with us while they "recover" until there's room in adoptions at the shelter. I'm inviting everyone I know over to meet them, though, in hopes of finding them a home without them having to live any amount of time in a cage
Mornings are quite chaotic here now, trying to keep track of escaping kittens, getting everyone fed, medicated, cleaned.... Nights are easier, as all 6 of my boys love their wet food and so my own boys lose interest in kittens, and kittens lose interest in escaping
.maggie
I volunteer at my local Humane Society and as there's only 2 of us spending the summer in a 4 bedroom house, I offered to be a foster volunteer as well - and was soon offered 4 little 6 week old bundles of fluff! One had a wound on it's lip, and the shelter decided to keep him seperate, as he has a special diet and needs to be watched extra closely to make sure he's eating... so I only got 3..but 3 is plenty!
The first few days I couldn't go anywhere, because one had badly wounded the person who had found them, and was therefore on rabies quarantine (law around here - with any blood - saliva interaction with unowned animals, said animal goes on quarantine for 10 days) and no one could handle him but me. Then this same kitten started to develope a bad URI
Anyhow, here's my 3 babies:
Goose - possibly not from the same litter, suspected to be a week younger then the others. (so, 7 weeks now) A grey tabby, originally very needy and demanding of cuddles, but now that he's over his URI he's a regular houdini and orchestrates jail breaks every time I enter the kitten room! (trying to keep them separated from my boys until the antibiotics are done) Loud purr, louder cry - which he excercises often.
Wolfie - a black long haired kitten, VERY mouthy and while he loves to be cuddle, and asks for pettings with his small squeak of a mew, it doens't take long before he tries to eat my fingers
Rottweiller - my favourite
They are such a joy - they'll be with us until they are about 10-11 weeks old, at which point they'll be neutered, then they'll stay with us while they "recover" until there's room in adoptions at the shelter. I'm inviting everyone I know over to meet them, though, in hopes of finding them a home without them having to live any amount of time in a cage
Mornings are quite chaotic here now, trying to keep track of escaping kittens, getting everyone fed, medicated, cleaned.... Nights are easier, as all 6 of my boys love their wet food and so my own boys lose interest in kittens, and kittens lose interest in escaping
.maggie
