Gonzo and Peanut are now Miles and Treads

I have been getting email's from Gonzo and Peanut's new owners. Gonzo is now Miles, and Peanut is now Treads - because of his paws. I've received a few pictures from her.. Miles looks SOO much like his mother did.. does.. Treads is still very very adorable.. they seem quite happy and are doing well in their new home.

Vaccines

Saturday I took the kittens in to work with me so hopefully the shelter was coming to pick up or drop off animals, but sadly they weren't. I called up a friend of mine to come and bring them to the shelter.. they needed their first distemper shot and dose of dewormer. Well they sat in their carrier unattended for the hour and a half they were there till I showed up. I gave mom a bath there.. she REEKED of urine.. I have no idea what is going on with her.. hopefully, whatever it is it will clear its self up when she's no longer nursing. The kittens didn't much care that they were in the carrier all day.. they just slept through most of it... probably nursed through the rest of it.

While I was at the shelter I noticed that someone had donated a number of bags of DM food. It was slightly expired, but food is still good after the expiration date.. probably not as fresh tasting, but it's still good. Emmy is on DM, and even with my working for the vet so I get it at cost +5% it's still obnoxiously expensive.. so I asked if they were going to feed it to anyone.. they weren't, so I asked for it and got it. Em has been doing really well on the food.. in just the past few days the improvements seem to have been in leaps and bounds. She's been on it for probably a month or so after the few weeks of transition. Her fur looks nicer. she doesn't seem to have as much dandruff, and she's been a bit more of a pain in general... she must be feeling great :) I just wish she'd lose a little weight.. great big kitty... teeny tiny little feet.. usually stepping on my nice full bladder when I wake up in the AM.

(update: there are far better options for food for diabetics other than DM.)

Vomiting kitties..

Im sitting here in my chair, and I hear the tell tail signs that there is about to be a hairball on my carpet. I get up to see who's doing it, and Ollie starts to run, leaving a trail of spittle from where he was into the kitchen. I said to him, that's right.. the kitchen. Don't vomit on my carpet.. so what does he do? walks over to the place where he was originally - on the carpet.. and proceeds to hurl again. I picked him up and put him back on the linoleum in the kitchen, and let him hurl..

Must remember that kitties can't hear the word no. He heard, vomit on carpet... he was just doing what I told him to do..

and I over react again...

I went in this morning and mom once again had feces stuck to her fur, but this time her "pants" were damp as well. it was strange so I picked her up and felt some very odd bumps in her belly. I tried to get a good feel of them, they seemed kitten sized, and despite her squirming, I could have sworn it moved. she gave birth four weeks ago, so she couldn't possibly be pregnant.. but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what the heck it was, so off we went to the shelter, and Bobbie said it was nothing out of the ordinary. Yup.. I'm just a little oversensitive when it comes to kitten health.

The ride down stressed her out pretty badly.. I was going to give her a bath when I got home, but I thought she should just relax with the kittens... she'll get one tonight.

the boys still don't have names.. arrrgh. No idea. I'll probably end up naming them Tobin Tigger and Kodi.

Aren't they cute?

I have become a glorified jungle gym for the kitties.. :) Ennui likes to sit on my lap and watch the action.. red and Anika like to climb up my back and sit on my shoulders.. and head if they can do it. Red and blue are getting quite mouthy.. they keep biting me. absolutely no means of saying 'no' sinks into them.. the minute I'm done, they are right back to chewing on me.

The scabs on their heads have cleared up nicely.. So it must have just been some rough play instead of ring worm.. thank goodness!!

I brought in a comb cause mom was looking a bit scraggly, and she LOVED being combed. The tail wasn't much fun, but then again it was pretty bad off, so I can understand that.

Mom is still sneezing up a storm.. the kittens are still a little snotty. Will have to give this a couple more days then look into different medications..

I bought a new cat comb at Target. it works really well!! I'm so glad I got it. I was afraid it wouldn't be effective.. its a bit like a flea comb, only the tines are further apart. I was amazed at all the different products they now have for pets.. breath strips.. like the Listerine pocket paks.. but for dogs.. *rolls eyes* a first aid kit for pets, that had nothing unique in it..and a whole line of shampoos and conditioners.. it was worse than going to petco.. at least there you expect a wide variety of totally useless pet products..