KITTENS!

I didn't realize it had been over a month since we posted. That's because it's been over a month since we had a foster. While it makes the blog a bit slow, it's a good thing overall since it means CCHS hasn't had too many sick cats.

However, it's kitten season, and so it was just a matter of time.It's been a long time since we've had little kittens so we were pleased to get the mail. They came into the society very recently at 8 weeks old--old enough to be adoptable, but a couple were a bit under the 2lbs needed for spay/neutering so they are in foster for a week or so to bulk them up.

That's what we knew yesterday afternoon--we thought we were just getting four kittens with the normal dietary supplement med who just needed some time. Their full exam this morning turned up other problems--one kitten has an eye infection, they all have congestion and diarrhea. So we're home with 3 bottles of liquid and one cream. I'm not surprised they are congested--picking them up they don't feel like they've been cleaning themselves, which we see a lot with stuffy cats.

Jackson is the black and white kitten with Jamal who has the eye problem. The pair of oranges are Lily (the only female) and Chester. We took the collar off Jackson since we can easily ID him and he was scratching at it a lot. The orange kittens will keep their collars until (if) we can spot coloring differences that are easy to spot.

While they've spent most of the day asleep we do know somethings about them already. Lily is adventuresome and has no fear. She was first out of the crate and went exploring and is already studying the door. The others seem a bit more reserved, but they all like people--at least I had them all trying to sleep on me at one point and when they were meowing at Jon for attention whenever they woke up.