Jack is now famous!

the woman I bought his collar from put him on her website..

So I ran into work today - forgetting all about the poop from Saturday night... So I talked to the doctor about it and he's not worried.. said it was normal from time to time.. yea! so Eli was probably just depressed.

can we say.. obnoxious.. I knew we could.. :)

These kittens.. I swear.. are the worst set of kittens I've had to date. They are cute.. don't get me wrong.. but O.. M.. C.. what a pain. I had to lock the boys up in the crate to get any cleaning done.. and even then the girls were in my way. One of them had thrown their little pink mouse in the water bowl, so the water was all pink.. not a good sign for a toy if you ask me.. so out it all went.. Mom's stool is once again the consistency of warm peanut butter, but she's looking and acting much better, so I'm not going to worry about it so much. I'm sure once the kittens are gone and she's on a regular scheduled she'll be regular again. If she makes a turn for the worse I'll bring her in to the vets.

So anyway.. Took forever to clean up the room tonight.. when I was done I spent some time cuddling. They are all VERY mouthy, but with a little bit of the me-OW! treatment they stop... except Kodi.. MAN that kitten is obnoxious.. he bit every bit of me he could. my arm. my leg, my fingers, my toes.. and he cares very little about the fact that he's hurting me. I tried to get him to cuddle.. it was quite hard. Finally calmed him down a smidge, and the second I stopped patting him he was right back to biting me. I finally gave up and attempted to leave.. but I was covered in kittens. I tempted them off with toys, got up, shook Kodi off my foot cause he was biting my toe again.. walked toward the door, shook Kodi off my food again, and again.. (yes.. obnoxious) and finally made it out... thankgoodness for that baby gate. If they EVER figure out they can get over it, I'm in big trouble. So I'm sitting out here checking my mail (now obviously blogging) and listening to them kill each other.. I'm thinking one more week and they'll be big enough. Maybe not Ennui.. but hopefully she isn't far behind them.

Ok.. now what?

Last night I was scooping the kitten litter and took it outside.. to do so I have to walk right past my own kitties litter boxes. I smelled a fresh poop, so I went to scoop it, and noticed it had several drops of blood on it.. fresh ones.. the poop its self didn't look too bloody.. (aka nice and brown) Did some investigating, and didn't find any signs that anyone had just gone, but Eli did seem a little less rambunctious than he had before. He also felt a little warm. I took his temp, which was normal, but he didn't put up a fight at all over having it taken - which he normally does. But he's eating.. If it wasn't him I could see him being depressed cause he can't go out into his cat house because its raining.. Guess I'll just have to take the poop in to work and see what the doc has to say about it.

(don't you just love some of the topics of my posts?)

New foster kitty picts

ennui is right on the top.. then there is a series of picts where anika got a hold of a mouse and would NOT let it go.. she kept growling and running away from her siblings..

That's Tobin hanging off the cage door..
Kodi is standing on the mop.
Tobin looking all innocent on the cage door again with kodi attacking it.

rain 1.. eli.. 0

Eli must have been out in the catio when the rain started this morning, cause he came in complaining and soaking wet. :) poor kitty.

also took a nice picture of Jack with his new collar..



The kittens are getting quite big. They are so cute now.. probably a week or two left. The metro didn't go over very well, but we forced it in mom.. her stools are still kinda soft, but she seems a lot better.. she doesn't seem so skinny, and her belly doesn't feel so lumpy. it's so hard to not give in and give her wet food when I give it to the kittens.. I try to keep it small. it's even harder not to give wet food to the kittens.. Kittens can be SO demanding..

(update 2016 - I would never not give a cat wet food knowing what I know now about nutrition. Giving a cat who has diarrhea only dry food is a sure fire way to dehydrate them. That is not how you cure diarrhea)