Bethany available

Bethany went back to the shelter yesterday. She's up above her 2 lb weight so she can be safely spayed soon. She's available for adoption and is one of the few small kittens right now (though I'm sure more will be coming--spring approaches).

She is not a very cuddly kitten; she prefers to play. She will, however, curl up and sleep with you when she's tired. She dearly loves toys on the end of strings, but do not let her have them without supervision. She also likes balls. Oh, and she is absolutely fascinated watching video games. She can track the human figures running around on screen.

A very sweet kitten, looking for her forever home! Stop by and say hello!

Richard Available

Richard passed his exam and is available at CCHS.

He's a good cat. He doesn't play much with people (string, etc), but happily plays by himself as long as the people retrieve his ping pong balls from wherever he got them stuck. He enjoys attention but mainly just wants people nearby. He's happy to just nap in the same room as people, but does not like being stuck in another room. He will howl if he's stuck away from people, but tends not to ask for attention (just takes it with a purr if you give it).

He didn't seem to be much of a jumper. He liked being brushed and it made him much softer as well. A good cat for someone who wants a companion without constant demands on attention.

Available now!

Boo & Simba - Available!

Boo and Simba are back at the humane society, ready for adoption. We can give these two our whole-hearted approval. They are wonderful, well raised cats.

They get along wonderfully and would be a good choice for someone looking for two cats. No worry about potential incompatibilities. They are people-cats, and are friendly with strangers. The mild spookiness to noise I mentioned early on disappeared after a couple days; they just had to adjust to the house-noises and they were fine.

They are fine with being picked up. Some people (including Kat) think this is a vital thing to teach cats. These purr in your arms.

I highly suggest you own a laser pointer and be willing to use it with these cats. They will play with each other, but human involvement is needed to make sure they get their exercise (and they will whine until you play with them).

Also, you must have a house where cats being up is not a problem. Simba will find a way up, and Boo can get there if he wants to. They will be up. They also currently knock stuff down, but that may fade as they get older and more graceful (no promises!)

In short--a great pair of compatible very friendly people kittens who should grow into delightful cats. Available now!

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.)

Josie - Available!

Josie is back at the humane society. She passed her physical and is now available for adoption. You can see her online at cuhumane.org or at the humane society in person.

Josie is a cuddle-cat who likes playing with string from time to time. If you want a cat you can sit with and pet, she's a good one. She's talkative with a lot of different vocalizations. She's also quite polite--Jon ate breakfast in the cat room and she never tried to bother his cereal. While she did jump on the sofa she showed no inclination to jumping anywhere else (such as the desk, the top of the cat tree, etc). She is tolerant of being picked up and held, but it did take Kat a few tries to learn how she is comfortable being held.

A very sweet lap-cat.

Sealy goes home, Josie arrives!

We took Sealy Booth back to the shelter today. He passed his exam with flying colors and we found out some good news--he's already been adopted. Apparently him becoming healthy was all that was between him and his forever home.

While there, we found out they had just had another cat diagnosed with a URI and wanted to send her into foster. So we picked Josie up and brought her home. We had to leave her in the crate long enough to vacuum and she had no bowls for a little bit while we cleaned them, but she's now settled into the cat room. More info and pictures tomorrow--Sealy gets the picture today.