We started off 2 years ago fostering a mother cat and her 5 kittens, so they mostly played together. Then we fostered Stumpy who was 7 months old, and trouble, but not really a rascally kitten. Then we adopted Lily who was 12 weeks old and super shy and never got into trouble. Then Smudge, who was just super cute, and a little sickly runt who was just happy to roll around on her own.
Now we have Sally. A 12 week old kitten who supposedly has a fractured pelvis, but I think it's healed up very fast (I think it's been about 4-5 weeks since she was injured, we've had her almost a week). She is a typical rascal of a kitten. She rests in a cage in our spare room, and is allowed the run of the spare room a few times a day to stretch out a bit, but when she's out she wants to attack EVERYTHING.
As she walks around, she's scanning the room deciding what to play with next. Yesterday she was out of her cage while I was downstairs watching tv, and I could hear her running around, and I figured I'd leave her be - she'd settle soon. Nope. About 20 minutes later she was still running around.
So I went upstairs to put her back into her cage to rest, and peeked under the door first to see what she was doing. She'd managed to find a tissue, and was throwing it in the air, wrestling with it, racing around the room with it and generally having a whale of a time.
I opened the door and got ready to grab her (she always tries to bolt out), and she raced toward me, tissue in mouth, and still managed to escape past me. She ran straight to the bedroom, under the bed where she kept wrestling with the tissue.
She is such a little ratbag, and I think given how well she seems to be healing, she'll be able to get spayed soon and go up for adoption. It's been so much fun having a kitten in the house again, but boy they are trouble - even the supposedly injured ones!!!
Now we have Sally. A 12 week old kitten who supposedly has a fractured pelvis, but I think it's healed up very fast (I think it's been about 4-5 weeks since she was injured, we've had her almost a week). She is a typical rascal of a kitten. She rests in a cage in our spare room, and is allowed the run of the spare room a few times a day to stretch out a bit, but when she's out she wants to attack EVERYTHING.
As she walks around, she's scanning the room deciding what to play with next. Yesterday she was out of her cage while I was downstairs watching tv, and I could hear her running around, and I figured I'd leave her be - she'd settle soon. Nope. About 20 minutes later she was still running around.
So I went upstairs to put her back into her cage to rest, and peeked under the door first to see what she was doing. She'd managed to find a tissue, and was throwing it in the air, wrestling with it, racing around the room with it and generally having a whale of a time.
I opened the door and got ready to grab her (she always tries to bolt out), and she raced toward me, tissue in mouth, and still managed to escape past me. She ran straight to the bedroom, under the bed where she kept wrestling with the tissue.
She is such a little ratbag, and I think given how well she seems to be healing, she'll be able to get spayed soon and go up for adoption. It's been so much fun having a kitten in the house again, but boy they are trouble - even the supposedly injured ones!!!