Good luck kittens

I emailed the shelter and found out that the kittens are doing well. So well in fact that they are keeping them and putting them up for adoption.

Since I don't expect to have kittens again until after we move - providing we find a house here right quick - I'm going to spend the next six days doing some wordless posts about The Crew. I am hopeful that by the end of the week we'll have an announcement about a house, but I'm not foolish enough to say we are going to make an announcement. I've watched enough soap operas in my youth to know better 🐱

I think the kittens are dealing with Calcivirus

While I'm not seeing the typical mouth ulcers, I know they don't always show up. It has been a weird presentation for sure, with most of them just complaining a bit more than usual. Ugo had a fever first, but he was still eating. Then he had a bit of an eruption on his lip. Unique wouldn't eat but had no fever, no discharge at all, and now Uli (aka Ike) has a fever but is eating but he seemed to have the very slightest limp. Uma has a bit of inflammation and then a bit of discharge on her spay site, but has not had a fever and not had any other issues.  So it is a guess.

I am hopeful that they will all be better by the time the weekend is over.. mostly because I feel so bad that they aren't feeling well.

Wordless Wednesday - Happy Bear is Happy

Looks like the kittens will be here a little longer than we thought

Wait, what does that headline say???

We have had a bit of a turn of events here at Casa de Gato. The kittens showed up sneezing a bit, so we were keeping an eye on that and waiting to see if they broke with anything.. 

We didn't break anything, I swear!

While they are technically right, they didn't break anything, but we did end up with a few health challenges. Uma has a bit of a reaction to the sutures so her incision started to swell a little. It didn't seem to bother her initially, but because of the placement her belly folds over it frequently and either because of that or despite it I'm fairly certain she's been licking at it and the dampness has caused some problems. She is on clavamox for seven days.

Ugo also developed a fever this morning so he went with Uma to the shelter and he is also on clavamox. We are keeping them until Friday the 8th as long as they improve and remain healthy. Uli and Unique went along for the right because the more I can get freaked out kittens out of the kitten room, the better for them. When they came home they came right out of the carrier and stood right in the middle of the room so I know they were happy to be back and forgot to be afraid..

Who, me afraid, I think not!!

Breakthrough - the before and after

So, when I go into the kitten room I am lucky if I see this.. 

and even luckier if I see this.. 

So I do the most difficult thing a foster person can do.. I ignored them. After taking the photo, I turned around and started scooping the litter box. That did not sit well with them. Kittens can not stand being ignored, even if the thing that is ignoring them is super scary.

After scooping I put down some more food and then went to sit on the couch. Uma was still sitting there, so I picked her up and snuggled her. She started purring and we had a nice snuggle. When she realized there was food down she went and had a snack.

A few minutes later a kitten returned to the couch and started purring. I reached over and patted her and I nearly reacted when I realized that it was not Uma but Unique. Uma wasn't amused that I couldn't tell the difference when I wasn't looking at them or trying to pay attention.

Ugo, not to be ignored under any circumstances, decided to come up and make a real nuisance of himself. He walked right over and had a wrestling match on my chest with Uma. Guess who won..

So, I sat there and ignored everyone unless they were in reach of my hand, at which point I would pat them. Uma and Ugo and Unique were all purring and being generally happy that Uli came out of his hiding spot and sat on the floor and waited for me to do something, which I refused to do, so he jumped up on the couch and observed me from the end for a while and then decided he wanted in on the attention, so he came a little closer and started meowing at me, so I pet him, and he liked it. A lot. He rolled around and conducted me to all of the good petting spots - Then Ugo showed up again and so Uli went to sit with Unique.

So, once again, I have won. *insert not so evil laugh here* I guess the real test comes tomorrow when I go back down to the kitten room, but I will totally ignore them again

What's this??

I was offered another set of kittens from the shelter. They have already been neutered so they will not be here long. The email said they were needed back on the first and the paperwork I got with them says the fifth, so somewhere in there, they will be going back.

The CatMan picked them up for me and dropped them off in the kitten room so they were there when I got home from work. I know they were there because the carrier was there and there was shuffling behind the couch. They were not the least bit interested in getting to know me. Fortunately, they were pretty to put my hands on, and they didn't react badly to being medicated, and they were completely interested in the food I put down, so I suspect that it won't be long before they are all up in my face.

So, I know they are neutered, I'm guessing they are about 10-12 weeks and I know their names are Ugo (the gray one) Unique(f), Uma(f) and Uli (m). I checked to see who the male was, and I *think* (honestly, I forgot, I know what a male looks like, I just forgot which face it went with) it is the one with the dots on the nose.. I'll have to check again in the morning.

As for who is Unique and who is Uma.. *shrug* no idea. I bet you ten dollars that if I pick I'll be wrong.

As I was leaving the kitten room last night, I called them the Yu-Gi-Oh! kittens. I think it is going to stick