Good News! Tiny Tiffany & Fauna are adopted!

Tiny Tiffany has been adopted! Tiny Tiffany is still on the web site with a heart by her name. Fauna is not pictured, so we hope/assume she has also been adopted, but too long ago to stil be pictured. We were unexpectedly sans net access last week so we didn't see it.

Josie is still available. If anyone is looking for a very sweet cat you should go visit her.

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.)

Tiny Tiffany and Fauna Arrive

We had expected to take a couple weeks off from fostering. I had been planning some general foster information posts, but those will have to wait. The shelter had quite a few felines all come up with URIs at once and not enough foster space, so we agreed to take this pair for the week.

They are 6 month old kittens. At that age they are still behaving like kittens but are starting to grow into looking like adult cats.

Tiny Tiffany, who is almost all black but for a few stray white hairs on her chest, is basically healthy. She's being treated and watched because her littermate/cage mate has a bad URI so chances are she does too, just not showing symptoms yet. She is very exploratory, heading out of the crate quickly, onto the futon and soon after up to the top bunk to peer down at us.

Fauna, also basically black but with some tan mottling on the lower chin, is having a rough time. She has a very bad URI, bad enough she's often breathing through her mouth and sounds like she's snoring when she tries to use her nose. On top of that her spay site is swollen and her eyes have discharge. She is a sad little kitten. She came out of the crate, looked around, the curled up in a little ball on the futon. She climbed on Kat's lap when she sat nearby, but in general is just looking pathetically out at us.

We will be monitoring Fauna closely. If she doesn't show clear improvement in the next two days she'll have to go back to the society for more treatment.

Barring that, these kittens will be with us until Sunday.

(While we were at the shelter we said "hi" to Josie. She was glad to see us, but would love it if someone would come take her out of her crate and cuddle her.)