Wednesday, August 31, 2016

beer kitten update

It has been a weird late summer..... some of us who foster think we are being paid back for making comments about a late kitten season this spring. MOL

Within the last month, several kittens on the adoption floor at the rescue picked up an upper respiratory infection and fosters were asked to step up to take these kittens and medicate them at home. Which is how the patriot kittens came to the house.

The beer boys came as a foster was going out of town and need a place for them to go. At the time it was just Juniper (who was running around the house like she owned it) and the patriot girls. Barley and Hops came to the house at that point.

Now, each rescue/shelter has different policies for foster and each foster home has ways they take in kittens. No way is better or worse....so long as the kittens are well cared for and no one is overwhelmed. For our purposes, we try to make sure that everyone is tested and has at least one vaccine before introductions are made....

Which leads us to a new beer kitten:
Our rescue is lucky in that we have partnered with several pet stores across the city that allow us to have adoptable cats in their stores. The downside is that occasionally (though not as often as one would think), cats mysteriously appear in the store. That happened last week....one of the volunteers for a store got a call from the manager that someone had left a kitten in the store in a box. (sigh....)

That volunteer currently has kittens that have ringworm and didn't want the new kitten exposed to that, so she sent a text asking the head of the rescue if they could make a deal and see if we would take the kitten and name her Wheat....to pair up with the beer kittens. (single kittens can turn into tyrants, so as long as everyone is tested, we try to find friends for singletons). Miss Wheat was tested and vaccinated last week and came to our house on Thursday evening.

The introductions went pretty well. Barley sniffed her and decided she was OK. Hops on the other hand donned his stranger danger suit and bounced around. Which Wheat found amusing. Once he determined she was not to be intimidated, Hops put his suit away and decided to play nice.

what is this strange toy?

no, like dis....

you smell weird and your momma dressed you funny

Wheat weighs less and is probably a little younger than the boys. She tries to keep up, but they play a little rough and she isn't so sure about them sometimes. She was COVERED in fleas when she came in and fortunately had time before we got her for the meds to kick in and kill them. However, she was still a mess and got a bath on Saturday just to clean her up some. We won't ever know her background, but she is super sweet and lovey with the other kittens and people. Her eyes are a little gunky but mom is putting meds in them and it shouldn't be an issue.

*fyi, if you are trying to do kitten math, don't....mom is trying not to think too much about how many kittens are currently in the house  MOL

21 comments:

  1. Miss Wheat is a cutie pie! Kittens do seem to multiply at this time of year.

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  2. Miss Wheat is such a pretty kitten and we hope she will soon be in her forever home.

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  3. Poor lil Wheat...left in a box, covered in fleas and probably wormy too. Now she is in the bestest of hands!

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  4. ah, but kitten math can work in your favor - weight-wise, an eight week old kitten is only one-fifth of a grown cat, etc. :) I currently either have thirteen cats in my house, or six, depending on how kitten math is applied.

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    1. we do that math here - so the feral momma cat plus 3 kittens really doesn't equal 4.... MOL

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  5. great googly moogly.. Wheat is adorable.. I love her color.

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  6. Miss Wheat is one fluffy ball of gorgeousness! "you smell weird and your momma dressed you funny" = kitten elementary school :)

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    1. you should have seen Hops when she first showed up....put on his stranger danger suit and everything

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  7. Oh, such a pretty girl! Such a lucky girl, too. Thank you for taking Wheat in!

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  8. Every time we read a story like this, we are eternally grateful that there are people like you able and willing to do this oh so important work. And while we agree it's NOT good to just leave felines randomly in the store... it is much better than behind a dumpster, at least. PS: they are all extremely cute !!!!

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  9. What a cutie Wheat is! I do hate humans who just drop off cats and kittens like that, though. :-(

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  10. Miss Wheat is so cute! Sad that somebody just abandoned her like that, but better that than a lot of things...

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  11. Wheat is so cute! I'm glad she ended up in safe hands with you.

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  12. It is amazing how many kittens you are able to help! You are a saint! They are such cutie pies. You are so right about how having one kitten is quite a chore. As much as I love my Dexter, he has enough energy to exhaust us all.
    -Purrs from your friends at www.PlayfulKitty.net

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    1. it helps when they have other kittens to help wear them out....

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  13. We're glad to hear the beer kits have accepted Miss Wheat. She's very cute.

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  14. The final photo with t's caption really made Mom laugh. She never thought about somebody just leaving a kitten at a pet store, but better than just letting it loose. Wheat is a purrfect name based on new kitties fur color. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

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  15. wheat......we must say ewe R gorgeouz N we wish ewe all de best in findin
    yur foreverz ~~~~~ hope everee one haza grate day playin, cauz all de trubullz ya want coz de mom purrson iz knot home... N daiquiri putted a card boardz over de camera sew her canna spiez on ya !!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥

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  16. I will NOT fall in love with Wheat...I will NOT fall in love with Wheat... I Will NOT fall in love with Wheat...I will NOT fall in love with Wheat...I will NOT fall in love with Wheat...

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  17. What a doll baby Wheat is! She looks my foster failure Fergus did when he was her age. Where all his fluffiness went, I have no idea. Anyway, I hope the little one feels better soon (and I hope she can keep up with her rowdy roomies!).

    Jean from Welcome to the Menagerie

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  18. She's such a pretty girl! I must check the camera more often...didn't realize there was an extra kitten.

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