Former Foster Friday

Back in June of 2006 I took in an adorable litter of kittens. I do not remember off the top of my head all the litters I've fostered, but these ones I do remember.

It included a cute fluffy kitten I named Sebastian. He was adopted with a kitty that a friend of mine fostered named Jasper.

She renamed Sebastian to Jake and Jasper to Jericho and they are doing very well. I had actually been thinking about them since I recently found some photos that she sent me when they were first adopted and now I have a brand new photo to add to the collection
From 2006:

 From 2013:

Isn't he a stunning specimen of a handsome ManCat??

Updates

Notice the new domain.. cool hun? Not sure what I am going to do with webwmn.com at this point.. I really should deal with that.. but I don't know what I want to do with it, so I'll leave it as it is for now.

The kittens are doing much better. They have been on Albon for a while now, and they are now eating 6 cans of food per day, along with the dry that is out.

The little boy without a tail (Kenny) is still having problems passing poop though. It is now solid, but he pushes so hard, that he often ends up on his front two feet. Poor thing.

I haven't weighed them in a bit, but they do seem to be gaining, and if they keep eating at this rate, they should be headed for adoption soon.. which is a good thing, because Willie is TOO CUTE and TOO SWEET.. it is freakin adorable!!

They don't seem to sleep as much now too.. so I guess the trip to the vet was a good thing even though they didn't come up with anything. It was the stool sample I was able to collect because they spent the entire day at the shelter and half of them went poop once they got home. Dr found coccidia, and put them on Albon.

Em is back to losing weight. I took her off zantac, and she went right back to vomiting often. So I put her back on that but took her off the thyroid meds. She seemed to gain, but then started to lose again. She was only off it for a few days, so I put her back on it, and she stabilized, but then started losing. This has been her pattern to begin with. So I took her back off the thyroid meds.. still no change. She is constantly nauseous, though, so I am constantly feeding her.. she loves it..

Adoption day

This one was hard on me. The shelter wasn't as busy on a Sunday than it is on Saturday. I should have brought them back then.

Sasha went first. A nice older couple who just lost their cat of 19 years. Indoors, willing to listen to ideas on food.

Sebastian and Suzie Q went next. An elderly woman came in with her kids. She wanted a new cat since hers just died. I'm not as thrilled with this adoption because I think Suzie is going to be too much for her.. but she was insistent that she only wanted one and she only wanted a kitten. Suzie is a sweetheart, but she is a spit fire, and without another kitten to play with, I think she'll overwhelm the woman. I hope I am wrong. One of her children ended up adopting two kittens. Jerico a kitten that was thrown from a car, and Sebastian. They did say they were going to let the cats out, and they said declaw.. they were talked out of both.. (I hope, you never know what people will say when they just want you to stop talking about something) I explained why Sebastian shouldn't be let out.. again, they seemed to understand. *prays*

Sara and Sampson are still left.

The whole crew did exceedingly well there today. I was so certain that they were going to revert to their feral ways. Sampson was very shy and overwhelmed with it all, and spent most of the day shaking. The biggest brute of a kitten, it was odd. Wasn't expecting him to be the baby.

I can't keep them all, and I have to trust in the world to take care of them.. (Only problem with that is that it is the world that created too many kittens in the first place)

More kittens

"HEY!" purred Suzie Q


"you say I have fans? let me strike a pose"


"and they like Sebastian too? oh all right"


"Hey Suzie, where'd ya go?" Sebastian


"She went this way!" Sara


"Enough with the photos already!!!" Suzie Q


"I have things to do!!"

Myla's practical joke

Well maybe practical joke isn't the right term, but what else to call it? We went to bed around 10pm, and at 12:30 I woke up and had to go pee. I got up, did what I had to do, got back into bed, got comfy, then heard screams. Now the bedroom is upstairs and down the hall from the kitten room... pretty far away. They were faint but I just KNEW.. I got up, walked down the hall, through the kitchen, turned the stairwell light on, when I realized I didn't have my glasses. At this time the screams were very loud. Turned around, woke up the hubby - cause if I heard screams THAT loud I knew something was wrong. Grabbed my glasses, walked back down, got downstairs and noticed that Myla had shoved two of her kittens under the door onto the concrete - which is VERY cold. One calico, one red/blond tabby. the red one was the one screaming his head off. Good thing too cause if I hadn't shown up, I have a feeling that the first born would have died. See there was another calico on the other side of the room in a puddle of blood. Barely moving, barely breathing.

I looked around for more, found a solid black one and put the three together. then started concentrating on the cold one. Did a warm bath and lots of rubbing. Watching it gasp for breath was rewarding, so was the second gasp.. and the cries.. very nice. Seems to be doing well.

Started cleaning up and trying to get all the kittens on to some place warm. Myla still didn't seem that interested in them yet. Found a puddle of urine.. *rolls eyes* and another kitten. This one hidden under a pile of towels that are dirty and were set aside to come up to wash.

I gathered all the kittens and put them on a bedding pad in the carrier with the heating pad on. They still feel very cold to the touch. Gave them all a drop of KMR. While drying them off, most of them gave me stool. very odd to me. I don't remember new borns ever producing stool. (rubbing in general gets them to eliminate, but that's usually after they have eaten something) Made the bedding warm with a heating pad then shut if off. Myla joined them as soon as I had them all in there and huddled together.

So at this point we have five kittens. Two calico, two solid black, and one red. I know she has at least one more kitten in her, possibly two, but she seemed to not want to give birth while I was there.

Hopefully the next couple will go smoothly. Not sure what to do next, though. Myla was fighting being a cage this afternoon.. do I try to keep her caged now that she's got something to keep her busy?

the waiting game

well still no kittens. Don't know why. She is about to explode, and she has tons of milk.. She destroyed her cage today.. so I had to put her in the old rabbit cage. She hates to be in it, wants to be loose.. more so now than ever before. I just KNOW she wants to give birth on my couch. I've left her loose for a couple of hours. Would be nice if I went back down to kittens.

The raw food diet did not go over as well as I had expected. The raw meat was a HUGE hit, but mix it up with liver and hearts and supplements and it is poison. Well okay maybe not that bad, but they are avoiding it. Only way I can get any in Em is to mix it up with stuff that she is used to. Even that really isn't working this evening. This is frustrating. Figured it would go over like gangbusters, but nooooo.. silly kitties want to play with the box instead of the really cool toy.

Well, I'm not giving in with the others.. They are getting snacks, but their meals are raw. Em I have to be more careful with because of her diabetes. Hopefully, the transition won't take long..

Myla and the rabbit.

Well I let Bri on the bed the other afternoon for some exercise, and she ended up peeing on it (she's also been destructive in her cage.. hum.. feeling more at home is she?) so then I put her in the living room where there is a rug for her to run on. We had all six cats staring at her, it was a little off-putting. So tonight I brought her down stairs to play with Myla. Myla liked Bri in a "mmmm yummy rabbit" sort of way.. so I put her back in the cage with some food while I let Bri work off some energy.

Well turns out Bri REALLY likes the taste of live wires. Chewed right down to the copper faster than I could stop her!

So I put Bri back, and hung out with Myla. She's not been as quick to eat over the past day, so I was hoping I'd have kittens by now. Not yet. She is so uncomfortable that she has to squat when she sits, and she keeps rolling over. The kittens are the most active I have ever felt. Tonight I THINK she had a contraction, but after 15 more minutes or so there was nothing else.. so I put her back in her cage and now I really have to go to bed.

zzzzz

It's only 9am and

and Em's BG curve is not going as planned. Her first reading was 352, her second was 338.. okay yes, it's going down, but I was hoping for a faster rate. (breakfast was right after her first reading at 6)

So, what does this mean... probably that she is going to go back on insulin for a while, but I will reserve that judgement till the entire reading is done.

She is still losing weight though. 13lbs 13 oz this morning.

and why on earth is she sleeping on the mat in the kitchen?? I don't understand that one in the least.

As I mentioned, I have foster kittens again. A long sleek black mom, and four babies. Three black and one gray. I'm assuming they have names, but I didn't get them. I was thinking about naming them after the women at work.. (for the boys I could use their last names) it seems kinda appropriate since the last time I named kittens for my coworkers I was quickly unemployed :D