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Hi folks.
Well we have just handled the babies for the first time since last week. Over the weekend my youngest daughter and her fiance had been iver the back of the sofa a couple if times so that Ginny would recognise a human smell there. We could see on the infra red camera that they were starting to open their eyes, so we decided tonight was going to be the start of the interaction. There was only Jenni, Jon and me in the room and we tempted Ginny out onto the sofa with some treats. Jenni went behind the sofa, talking to Ginny as she did so then gentle brought out the 2nd of the dark babies born, which we have nicknamed Abby (NCIS fans in this house) this is the one that we shall be keeping, Jon and I both gentle stroked them with one finger and Ginny seemed fine with it. Next came the 1st dark one born, who we had called Gizmo, so called because it looked just like a Gremlin with ginger eyebrows. Again Jenni was talking and stroking Ginny. Then Ginny came and sat alongside me on the back of the sofa, watching what we were doing, I kept stroking her to reassure her. Next came Simba so called because it looked like it was born with a slight mane of fur, then came the 2 we haven't nicknamed then finally we had Bubba, this one was the last born and is the smallest.
We only had them out from the area for about a minute each kitten and when we had finished Jenni gave Ginny a handful of treats to reassure her that everything was alright. She then went and gave the kittens a good licking. And they are now all comfortably suckling away. We shall do the same thing again tomorrow night and this time will have eldest daughter Lyndsey in the room too.
We are going to take things slowly and try not to overwhelm both Ginny and the babies, they all seem to have gained weight well, going to weigh them tomorrow night. Ginny is eating well, getting through 3/4 pouches of wet a day and has constant access to dry kitten food, water and also goats milk, which she loves, thanks to whoever suggested that. She also loves raw chicken and beef, so would it be advisable to give her extra amounts of that at the moment? Will hopefully take so decent photos with proper camera tomorrow and will post them in the next couple of days.
Right it's now 3.20am here so going to get a couple of hours sleep before going to work, catch you all tomorrow xx
Well we have just handled the babies for the first time since last week. Over the weekend my youngest daughter and her fiance had been iver the back of the sofa a couple if times so that Ginny would recognise a human smell there. We could see on the infra red camera that they were starting to open their eyes, so we decided tonight was going to be the start of the interaction. There was only Jenni, Jon and me in the room and we tempted Ginny out onto the sofa with some treats. Jenni went behind the sofa, talking to Ginny as she did so then gentle brought out the 2nd of the dark babies born, which we have nicknamed Abby (NCIS fans in this house) this is the one that we shall be keeping, Jon and I both gentle stroked them with one finger and Ginny seemed fine with it. Next came the 1st dark one born, who we had called Gizmo, so called because it looked just like a Gremlin with ginger eyebrows. Again Jenni was talking and stroking Ginny. Then Ginny came and sat alongside me on the back of the sofa, watching what we were doing, I kept stroking her to reassure her. Next came Simba so called because it looked like it was born with a slight mane of fur, then came the 2 we haven't nicknamed then finally we had Bubba, this one was the last born and is the smallest.
We only had them out from the area for about a minute each kitten and when we had finished Jenni gave Ginny a handful of treats to reassure her that everything was alright. She then went and gave the kittens a good licking. And they are now all comfortably suckling away. We shall do the same thing again tomorrow night and this time will have eldest daughter Lyndsey in the room too.
We are going to take things slowly and try not to overwhelm both Ginny and the babies, they all seem to have gained weight well, going to weigh them tomorrow night. Ginny is eating well, getting through 3/4 pouches of wet a day and has constant access to dry kitten food, water and also goats milk, which she loves, thanks to whoever suggested that. She also loves raw chicken and beef, so would it be advisable to give her extra amounts of that at the moment? Will hopefully take so decent photos with proper camera tomorrow and will post them in the next couple of days.
Right it's now 3.20am here so going to get a couple of hours sleep before going to work, catch you all tomorrow xx
