Kittens on the couch

I'm not really sure why, but the kittens have all started hanging out on the couch nearest the door I come in and are there when I visit them in the morning. There are plenty of more comfortable (and frankly way better for photos) than this, but this is what they chose.. so this is what I have to work with.

I have no idea what Agate is doing in this photo, but if you look at the back of her head it looks like she has another set of eyes there - or is that just me?

They are growing like weeds. When they went to the vet with me at the end of last week they were barely a pound.. now they are practically a pound and a half. They really need to stop doing that.. I mean come on, Sunsweet's eyes haven't even changed yet!

There will eventually be kittens on this kitten blog, right?

Sorry for the delay in getting photos up.. Slate says she totally makes up for it though..

Snuggling with Sunsweet

This little boy was the first one to climb up into my lap and fall asleep on me. I wasn't sure this was ever going to happen considering Hedy has been so attentive. It was a nice little gift.

Hedy went back to the vet

Tuesday night Hedy was acting a little off. I was down in the kitten room so it might have been a simple case of her being tired, but I wasn't thrilled how she was looking and she seemed to not be so interested in eating anymore.

A short while into my visit Hedy went to the litterbox and it was pretty obvious that things were not right (Yes, I took a picture of her output and no I am not going to make you look at it) It was very soft, there was some blood at the end of it, and there were copious amounts of it.. like half a cup or even 3/4s (no, I didn't measure it)

She had been filling up her litter box in less than 12 hours so I had to give her a second one.. She is not putting on weight despite having constant access to food and on Tuesday I realized she was losing again and on Wednesday morning there were several piles of vomit.

So, off to the vet, we went. She seemed to quite enjoy the outing..

 Hedy making biscuits 

There is something up here relevant to my interests - Hedy

I need thumbs to get into this treat jar - Hedy

The vet decided to put her back on metronidazole to soothe her colon and probiotics to repopulate the good bacteria and we are going to start off with a general deworming since she hasn't had one of those in a while. Since the kittens are also starting to vomit and have diarrhea again, this seemed like a wise course of action. She improved with the metro before, there is no reason to think she won't again, and if it is worms causing her issues getting rid of those *should* make a huge difference.

If things don't improve we'll go back next week and run some blood tests. If things get worse we'll go in sooner.

If nothing else, it helped with kitten socialization

They weren't impressed with the GSD that was in the lobby barking like only a 150lb dog can do (okay fine, maybe 100lb, maybe only 75.. shush, it was a big dog) but Slate was a little freaked out by a smell on the tech's coat, which I am sure smelled like any number of animals. Everyone else did really well being loved on, so I count it a win.

Wordless Wednesday - Kittens to go

Agate

Slate

Sunsweet

Midnight

Marble

Agate says this is dumb, don't ever do this again