Tiny Tiffany & Fauna return to shelter

We dropped the two kittens off at the shelter this morning.

Tiny Tiffany, unsurprisingly, has developed a URI. This was expected. She was, however, starting to sound like Fauna. Not as continuously bad, but she was wheezing off and on. We were also wrong on Fauna's breathing improving. She was slightly better in the morning, but by evening she was just as bad as when she arrived. Steam wasn't having much of an effect.

Then last night Fauna managed to re-injure her spay incision. She did not pull it open, thankfully, but she did create a second wound--we don't know if she popped a blister, wore the skin, or what exactly. The actual incision is looking a bit better, but still has a lot of healing to do. She was also very uncooperative on letting us look at it.

Several of these meant they had to go back for a check by the shelter, and they stayed. The shelter will care for them for now, and they will probably go back into foster soon. Hopefully the foster-crunch will have eased by then. The shelter has a spate of cats with URIs and are short on foster families.

If you are interested in fostering, we urge you to go make an appointment. Most fosters are more straightforward and simple than these two (as shown by the last two we blogged about). I do not suggest Fauna & Tiny Tiffany for first time fosters (beyond having multiple things wrong they are also rather difficult to medicate), but the other URI cats are probably more straightforward.

(As a comparison, our usual morning foster routine is get up, pat cat on head, give cat medicine, cat sulks, give cat food, clean litter box. Done. Less than 10 minutes once you get the hang of it. Depending on how long you pat the cat on the head.)