power puff kitties

I'm sitting here watching Eli attack the catnip sack from a few posts back. He is loving it. chewing on it.. sucking on it.. attacking it. Muffin jumped down to see what all the fuss was about. Eli let her sniff it.. she didn't seem as motivated as him to enjoy the nip, so he took back over.. almost as if to say "you're doing it wrong!" he started attacking it again.. it made me think of buttercup from the power puff girls... I mentioned that to the hubby.. then I said muffin is definitely Bubbles.. making Jack be Blossom. Ollie then jumped down from his perch high a top the cat tree, and walked over to "bubbles" and "attacked" her.. in that slow I'm not really motivated to hurt you, but I wouldn't mind showing my dominance right now move. So I said, well I guess that makes Ollie Mojo Jojo... I looked at Emmy and said, and does this make Emmy the professor? Hubby said no.. Emmy is the Mayor... which would make me Ms. Bellum... and of course, that means the hubby is the professor.

We had a really good giggle over that one. Hope you've watched the power puff girls cartoon at least once to enjoy the humor of this post.

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the kittens are not going all that smoothly. I know I'm over reacting. I should have weighed them when they got here, but I haven't. Their teeth are coming in, they are playing, walking a tad more steadily.. their pupils aren't quite so big they don't seem quite so dehydrated anymore.. I still see black things walking across them, though. *grrr* however, there is still no flea dirt. Lots of sneezing going on.. mom is getting sick and tired of being pilled. I'm thinking of calling her Butterscotch... and I'm thinking of naming the second girl Anika..

but they are still slightly dehydrated, there are the fleas, the boy with the blue collar is still sleeping like the dead, mom doesn't seem to have any interest in the kits once the cage is open, the boy with the maroon collar has all kinds of scabs on his head (btw.. how does ringworm present itself.. do you know?) mom doesn't like to be pilled.. Ennui doesn't want to eat, and while I got her to go pee, I couldn't get her to go poop.. she got too squirmy

oh hey.. you'll like this one.. blue went into the litter box and started pooping.. but he couldn't figure out how to stop pooping.. so he's walking around with this large poop sticking out of his butt. He tries again.. ends up with a little more out of him.. enough to touch the litter so that now he has litter on it. he walks around the litter box again.. I gave up and pulled it off of him. lol

Kittens are so good at scaring you

I went in to take care of the kittens, I sat down in front of the cage and gathered up all my supplies. I make sure I have everything I need before I open up the cage so I don't have to leave the room while they are free. It took me a few minutes, and the kittens were scrambling to be let out. I opened up the cage door, and everyone tumbled out except the little boy with the blue collar. He just laid there, not moving. he was way in the back of the cage.. not easy to reach, so I poked him with the litter scoop. still didn't move, but I did see him breathe. I freaked out and called in the hubby.. and blue proceeded to start twitching.. I bravely reached in and picked him up, and he woke right up and started scrambling to be put down.. guess he was just having a really good dream.

I got some advantage for them, so fleas shall be history! boy, I hate fleas.

these guys are starting to be really cute. Even though they still all act the same, they all now want to sit in my lap. :) it's fun..

Mysterious case of the kittens

the kittens have been pretty lacking in the personality department. The ribbons helps in identification, but they are all very much the same.. they crawl over me, they crawl over other things, they eat litter. They have started sneezing more, so I'm continuing the clavamox. I hadn't been able to give it to them for the past couple of days due to the fact that I forgot to put it in the fridge.. oh shoot.. I forgot again!! *runs to get bottle and put in fridge*

anyway.. this morning I noticed a few of them were a bit dehydrated. I have absolutely no idea why. Mom is supposed to be taking care of them. I gave them some water, and some more KMR.. some liked it, some didn't. Ennui still doesn't like it. I don't know what I'm going to do with that little girl. Her eyes stand out like those cats in the weird hallmark cards. I went to the shelter and talked to the staff. not much came of that. I decided to give some KMR to mom to get her some more nutrients.. hopefully, that will help. I'm not 100% sure that it's not the fact that they have fleas that is causing this problem. I tried to get some flea meds today, but the shelter was out. I'm going to get some from work tomorrow. If this isn't cleared up by Friday (or if something else pops up) I'm going to have to bring them in for a check up.

I also got peed on tonight. The little boy with the blue collar sat by my foot, cried a couple of times, then my foot was 'mysteriously' wet.. and so was he. I cleaned him up.. and sent him on his way. When I went to put them back in the cage, he started digging around.... in the food bowl!! So I put him in the litter box, and he proceeded to go to sleep.

he's such a strange little boy.

and more fleas

I looked down at a kitten tonight and saw a black speck. I picked it off and it was a flea.. *shudder* I hate fleas. I saw one other, so I'm going to jaunt down to the shelter tomorrow and get some meds for them. I found one on my kitten clothes when I left the kitten room, so I should probably get something to treat the house as well.. man I hate fleas.

I put ribbon collars around the boys necks. Very loose.. I hope they don't come off. I've got blue, red, and burgundy.. the girls are easy to tell apart.. the big one and the little one, so I didn't scrounge for more ribbons. Ennui is so cute. She no longer wants KMR though.. so I've taken to feeding her the juice that is in the cat food... she very much likes that. They are quite cute.. like using me for a jungle gym. :)