Bug

Bug was born on April 7^th to a sweet kitty named Jordan.  Jordan had come into the shelter a month before and no one knew she was pregnant.  She came down with a cold and was vaccinated and medicated, and she still wasn’t feeling well so they sent her to a vet to find out what was wrong; which is when they found out she was pregnant so she went into foster care.   While she delivered three happy and healthy babies, she was unable to produce much milk and as a result her kittens were bottle fed. 

Bug is the most outgoing of the bunch, but in a wild and crazy sort of way.  She has little impulse control and is always on “GO!!”  She is quite mouthy, and while her “bites” generally are pretty gentle, she can get lost in her game and start to hurt.  She LOVES to play and will chase after feathered toys and balls.  She loves wrestling with her siblings, often starting things when they weren’t looking.  If Bug becomes an only kitten you will need to be aware she will entertain herself and most people consider that to be a “mischievous” kitty.   She will do best if you have some time to engage her in play every day.

Bug seems to have taken after her dad as she is the least like her mom in looks and attitude.  She is a playful little thing that enjoys eating and a good game of chase.  She is litter box trained and while dry food was always available she did not eat much of it, preferring canned food.

Lily

Lily was born on April 7^th to a sweet kitty named Jordan.  Jordan had come into the shelter a month before and no one knew she was pregnant.  She came down with a cold and was vaccinated and medicated, and she still wasn’t feeling well so they sent her to a vet to find out what was wrong; which is when they found out she was pregnant so she went into foster care.   While she delivered three happy and healthy babies, she was unable to produce much milk and as a result her kittens were bottle fed. 

Jordan was an incredibly social cat and she passed that on to her kittens.  Lily loves attention, but she also LOVES to play.  Another trait passed on was an immune system that isn’t ideal.  While she was never “sick” he had a hard time fighting off some internal parasites.  It is also believed that she might have a sensitive digestive system and would do best on a grain free diet (dry food was provided at all times, but she did not eat it, and would vomit it up if she did) Lily has a tendency to vomit a bit more often then most kittens, but it is believed that a grain free diet will help her.  While in foster care she ate what was available, which wasn’t always the best food.

Lily is a polydactyl kitty.  She has some extra toes that will need tending so they don’t over grow and cause her problems. She has great manners, is socially outgoing and uses the litter box well. Lily is pretty much what you get when you think of a happy kitty.

Nigel

Nigel was born on April 7^th to a sweet kitty named Jordan.  Jordan had come into the shelter a month before and no one knew she was pregnant.  She came down with a cold and was vaccinated and medicated, and she still wasn’t feeling well so they sent her to a vet to find out what was wrong; which is when they found out she was pregnant so she went into foster care.   While she delivered three happy and healthy babies, she was unable to produce much milk and as a result her kittens were bottle fed. 

Jordan was an incredibly social cat and she passed that on to her kittens.  Nigel loves attention and prefers to curl up on your lap and watch his sisters play, well most of the time.  Another trait passed on was an immune system that isn’t ideal.  While he was never “sick” he had a hard time fighting off some internal parasites and as a result he is much smaller then his sisters.  It is also believed that he might have a sensitive digestive system and would do best on a grain free diet (dry food was provided at all times, but he did not eat it, and would vomit it up if he did)

Nigel is a polydactyl kitty.  He has five back toes instead of the normal four.  He has the standard five front toes, but his “thumbs” are much longer then normal.  He was originally born with one extra claw, but it was malformed and fell off shortly after birth. 

Nigel has great manners, is socially outgoing and uses the litter box well. Nigel really LOVES cat safe milk.  He likes small balls and feathered toys

at the vet

so last night was the last night to spend time with the babies.. So I went and made myself comfortable and started watching some Netflix.  almost immediately the cute and cuddly kittens I've come to know and love to cuddle with turned into all teeth and claws.  They were full of play and they were completely empty of stop.  They chewed on my toes, my fingers, my rings, my necklace, my shirt, my pants, etc.  Bug even tried to chew on my ear!!  (not sure she wasn't thinking it was a nice place to nurse at the time because I was laying down)

I barely made it 40 minutes before I couldn't take it any more.

Not that I'm ever happy to bring kittens back, but when they get like that it does make it a little easier.

I'm assuming they are going up for adoption this weekend, but I have a vet appointment with Fleurp so I won't be there.

Jack in the Box

I was watching a cat show on the Animal Planet the other day and saw a segment on the Nebelung.  I had never heard of this breed of cat, but it is basically a long haired Russian Blue.

What was interesting was the segment featured a Nebelung that the owners had found stray.  They then talked about the history

The Nebelung (NAY-bel-ung) breed began the way so many of our breeds began, a stray cat wandered out of the mist and into someone's home and heart. In the early 1980s a black domestic vagabond-turned-housecat named Terri produced a litter of three- two shorthaired black females and one longhaired male. The father, another anonymous nomad, was thought to have been an Angora mix.
Terri's owner, Cora Cobb of Denver, Colorado, gave one of the female kittens, Elsa, to her son, and in 1984 this shorthaired black domestic produced a litter of kittens that included a blue semi-longhaired male kitten. Subsequently named Siegfried, this kitten became the Nebelung's foundation cat.
Elsa's next litter, fathered by the same shorthaired Russian Blue-type neighborhood Tom, produced a female kitten, Brunhilde, who possessed Siegfried's qualities and characteristics. By that time, Cobb was so taken with Siegfried's beauty and personality that she decided to see if she could preserve his qualities by breeding brother to sister. In May 1986 Siegfried and Brunhilde proved to Cobb that they bred true by producing a litter of three blue longhaired kittens. Cobb named the cat the Nebelung, a German word that means 'creatures of the mist'.

So basically Nebelungs came about originally from stray kitties.  So it would stand to reason that that genetic combination could and would and should happen again.  I've seen several cats at my local shelter that looked very similar to Jack - in an almost scarey way.  

from http://www.catster.com/cat-breeds/Nebelung

So he might not have papers, but I bet you he's a Nebelung..