Day 16/108 Growing Up

A lot has been happening over the past couple of weeks and Mom has been very busy!  Firstly, I'd like to say that Kenna is my new best friend.  We have started to play together and sleep beside one another on the couch.  I just wish that she could go outside with me, but Mom says that's not allowed.  Oh well, we'll just run more inside the house!

Beaker and Honeydew have moved to another foster home.  One of Mom's work friends decided they'd like to give fostering a try so they took them last Friday.  The couple that took them are Oscar's first Mom and Dad so I know they are going to be well taken care of until they can find their forever homes. I hope that Meg and Kent like fostering and will continue to do so because that would be like an extension of my wish and means we could help twice as many animals.

The younger kittens are doing very well.  Mom started to feed them some milk with a syringe because she was concerned they weren't getting enough liquid.  They LOVE it!  They scream and fight with one another to get up on her lap first.  She's cut it back a bit since she first started because now that the kittens are all eating well she wants them to learn to eat and drink on their own.  Mom figures it's mostly the ceremony that they like because they won't drink the same milk out of a bowl.  Mom says that because they don't have a Mom she understands that they still need that comfort of nursing.

All the kittens went to the vet last week to get checked out.  The Vet said they are all healthy, but quite small and thin.  The littlest ones only weigh 0.4lbs. That was the day after Mom had started to supplement with the milk but now they all have full bellies and are growing like weeds.  Violet is still really small and thin, but she spends the most time in the food bowl.  She doesn't like to drink as much milk as the others, but she's drinking more every day.  She is very active and playful so Mom says she's sure she will catch up to the others.

Dahlia is the biggest of the kittens and the most mischievous.  If there can be any kind of danger involved in what she's doing then that is what she does.

Marigold is one of the tiniest kittens.  Mom calls her Bobble Head because her head seems to be so much bigger than the rest of her body.  She's grown quite a bit in the past week and now she's got long skinny legs.

At first Kenna didn't like the kittens at all!  She'd hiss and swat at them.  Then she'd walk around growling at them.  Now she's decided that they're OK.  She's started to play with them and groom them.  Which they really need because they are messy little kittens and no matter how many times Mom washes their faces they still look ratty.

Of course Valentine loves the kittens.  As you can see they have a lot of growing to do before they'll be as big as him.  Actually, Mom says it's highly unlikely they'll ever be as big as him.









Lastly, we have one more cat that is staying with us.  Her name is Zoe and she's not very happy to be here and therefore doesn't want her picture taken.  Mom brought her to see if she would nurse the kittens since she had 8 week old kittens of her own.  She wanted nothing to do with the kittens.  She also don't like Val or Kenna.  She loves me though!  But then again, everybody loves me.  Mom says hopefully another foster home is going to take her in the next few days. It's unfortunate that Zoe hangs out by herself all day.  She is very, very friendly towards humans, she just doesn't like other cats.