Eli and the ant

I've started giving Jack vitamin C again. It was quite hard figuring out how to make sure he got what I gave him, with Muffin and Eli and Em and Olie ... so what I started doing was putting the little dish of food in the box on the cat tower. No one can sneak up on him and push him out of the way, and he licks the dish so clean I can reuse it over and over.

I was cuddling with Em, and I noticed the fatty deposits had returned on her back. So I tried to feed her a full lecithin gel cap. She wasn't having any of that, so I squeezed it ou on some food. She apparently doesn't like the taste or smell of the lecithin, so she used her paw to get the food under the liquid, and used her paw to eat it, so I mixed it in. She ate most of it. While we were fending everyone else off, I saw an ant in the house. The hubby wounded it but we were still concerned with Em, so he left it there. I told Eli to get it, and with a little help to get him to spot it, he went after it. He attacked it with his paw. The ant attached itself to his paw, to which Eli shook his paw with disgust. Then he went after it again, pawed at it again, and again it attached itself... again he shook it off. He did that four times, then got it in his mouth.. to which he immediately spat it out... but he continued to go after it.. it was quite amusing.

the kittens are out in their room causing havoc. I'm frightened to go down there.

Diarrhea

oh great.. muffin just threw up. poor thing. we have had a run of very loose stools around here lately as well. Don't know what is going on, we haven't changed their diet recently. I did start adding vitamin c, but I stopped that the minute it started, which was a while ago.

Hubby just checked in on the kits, they seem to be nursing well, and mom seems content.. that's good. I think I'll go check on him, and then take a shower.

My cats are so spoiled.

It is such a sad thing that I have raised such shy kitties.. they are sooooo afraid of getting into the bags I bring home to get out what they want..

NOT!

my kitties have absolutely no problem asking for what they want. I brought home a cat nip toy, and they were all over the bags.. but then again, they are all over any plastic bags I bring home. Muffin LOVES to sit in them.. I hadn't even emptied one and she was trying to get in it last night. I also had a bowl in another one, and she just climbed up in it and sat in the bowl cause it was wrapped in a plastic bag.. it was so cute. Unfortunately though I left the bag on the floor, and bit later on in the evening a couple of kitties - I am assuming it was Muffin and Eli - tore though the house and broke the bowl into a number of pieces. They have no couth.

Today I'm trying something new. I've decided I'm going to give them vitamin supplements in wet food as a treat. The lecithin is doing great things with Emerald's coat (she had major dandruff, it's almost gone now) and I decided that I will be introducing Vitamin C to them as well. I opened up a packet of wet food and put the supplements and the food in five different food bowls for them. Em gets some lecithin and C, and everyone else got a little Vitamin C, except jack who is going to get a bit more. Well, Ollie was totally not fooled. Immediately turned it down. Muffin ate hers, Eli ate his.. well they licked the juice off the sliced food anyway.. Jack had some of his, then went to go see what Em had. Em wanted to know what Ollie passed up.. then Muffin, done with hers, went to eat jacks.. *rolls eyes* I gave up. It wasn't vitally important that they eat their own portions.. just would have been nice... oh well.

Charlie still is with kittens. I haven't felt any more movement. The other day I felt a kitty kick me. But she's not too keen on me just laying my hand on her tummy, it needs to be patting her, or scratching her. She is going to make someone a really great cat..

I checked up on Sally on Tuesday.. she was still there. :( oh well.. She is a great kitty too, I'm sure she'll be picked soon.

Checking on Charlie

went down to check on Charlie.. looked in her ears and saw a few drops of blood in one. She's got mites, so I'm sure she just scratched herself when scratching them. Will have to keep an eye on it. It's kinda difficult to clean her ears when she's pregnant.. that and she's not too into having it done in the first place. She's still quite hungry, so I doubt we'll have kittens any time soon.

Jack is doing really well. He seemed almost tired once I first put him on the antibiotics.. but he's back to his old self. A couple of different references I've read recommend adding vitamin C to an FIV (and an FIP) positive cat. and that there are many cases with fiv positive cats testing negative once the vitamin c levels are brought up. That would be nice.

The clinic that the shelter brings their pets to is hiring. I went and dropped off my resume this morning. I kinda doubt I'll even be called for an interview as I have no tangible experience in that field.. but I do have excellent customer service qualifications, and I'm easily trainable.. so who knows. Guess if they are willing to give it a go, and no overly qualified applies? oh well. I suppose it doesn't really matter to me one way or the other.. work would be good, would help me financially for some of the home improvements we want to do, but if not, its just more kitty time for me... :D