~Tails from the Foster Kittens~

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Eli's Trip to the vet

I brought Eli in to see the vet on Friday.. Wanted to have the herbalist look at his eyes.. see if there was anything she could recommend. Not going to comment on the actual day, as she has to mull the info over for a while, but now that he's home, he's a lot more friendly.. almost as if he's thankful I didn't leave him there.

Like I'd actually do that.. silly kitty. But I do appreciate the extra attention!

Saturday, October 25, 2003

be warned

I'm going to warn you now.. will be posting some absolutely adorable kitten pictures in a day or so. I have four four to five week old kittens that are SO CUTE!

so steal yourself for the next time you come here..

Friday, October 24, 2003

in.. and out.

Hum.. Apparently I didn't even mention my last set of fosters. Last Thursday the shelter sent over some kittens to be neutered. Two of them were sneezing, so they didn't want to spay them. I took them home. They were really sweet.. I put them in the ferret cage I keep for orphan kittens and left them in the downstairs room. The orange kitties were occupying the upstairs room. So I left them down there.. locked up in the ferret cage, the next morning I went down there and the boy had escaped. Don't know how.. the cage was totally still shut. I was scared I wasn't going to be able to find him since we have started using the downstairs room for storage while we wait to redo the room for our new master bedroom. He was a bit of a scardey cat, so I didn't think I'd be able to find him, let alone catch him.. but when I called out he peeked out of the closet and came right to me. I named him Merlin, and the girl Morgana

I didn't spend a whole heck of a lot of time with them the first couple of days.. just long enough to give them lots of food and their meds. Once they moved upstairs I went in to cuddle with them.. they sat and cuddled with me for half an hour.. absolutely unheard of for kittens. They were purring and happy. :) they were also full of energy.. playing fools. they are ever so cute in personality.. not so much in appearance.

So I hadn't heard them sneeze once, so they stayed on clavamox for seven days, and went in on Thursday to be neutered, and they are back at the shelter today and are up for adoption. I wasn't planning on going in for them since they were only here for a week, but the shelter called and asked me to take six four week old kittens, and I do have some errands to run tomorrow, so I think I'll head down that way for 11, and visit for a bit.

Sunday, October 19, 2003

quote of the day

"In my more depressed moments, I believe my cats suffer from
Stockholm syndrome. You know, where the hostage falls in love
with the captor, as an adaptive mechanism." --Betsy Salkind

Saturday, October 18, 2003

and they are gone in record time...

So I brought the terror four into work with me today so I could be there when they were available for adoption.. I'm glad I did cause they were all adopted within an hour. The first to go was Tobin, and he was picked out while I was still at work. I brought him out front to cuddle with him for a bit, and one of the clients who came in fell in love with him. I told her that he'd be up for adoption shortly after noon time.. and she showed up.. then another woman showed up with her daughter and her friend. She took Kodi and Anika. That left poor Tig all alone. I tried to get the woman who took Tobin to take him, but she already has two older cats, and she worried what they would think of two new kitties. Then there was a husband and wife with two young - school age - kids. I tried to pawn him off on them, but she said she already had an orange kitty and was looking for a little diversity. She ended up taking two of another set of fosters. Then a young guy came in took one look at Tig and said he was the man. :) it seemed like the perfect fit. I had such a good feeling about it that I didn't ask any of the normal questions.. Amy went and asked him, and he had all the right answers. He said he was a new home owner and he thought it was time. I was there when they went over the application and he was born in 1980!! oh my goodness I felt old then. But I just knew it was a good fit.

Pictures from the last few days