Updates

 Sorry....mom has been slacking.

Apricot and Fog are at a partner store waiting to be adopted. Lychee is being spayed today.

The Italian city kittens are doing well. Palermo have mom a scare last week but 12 hours later was acting like nothing happened. 

Mom deep cleaned, disinfected and reset the foster room and they have been loving the space to run around and play.

Boba has jumped the gate a couple of times to check them out, but she is rude and growly so mom ends up kicking her out fairly quickly.

Everyone else is doing well. The weather cooled off some so we are enjoying open windows and fresh air.

Weekend report

 Things are pretty good here. The weather is cooling at least a little bit so that leads to open windows (with our screen inserts to avoid accidents).

 The fruit girls are doing well. Fig and Apricot are ready to go and on Petfinder. Just need space in a store. Lychee is finally big enough she can be spayed when the rescue has a spot.

Fig (back) and Apricot

Daiq and a kitten looking for

leftovers from breakfast

Lychee

The little Italian city kittens are doing pretty good. Mom has changed their diet a couple of times hoping to get more calories in them. So far so good but mom still worries about them. They are being more active and playful so that's a good sign.

The hope is to move them maybe this week and give them a little more space. 

Names and things

 

Boba

Boba-saurus

Boba Tea Rex

Fig and Apricot are going to be spayed today. Lychee took longer to gain weight so she'll go in a couple of weeks. The girls will come back for a few days then go to a partner store for adoption.

Mom put a poll up on Instagram & Facebook (make sure to follow us) asking for help naming the new little kittens. They are now 5ish weeks old. They are eating on their own but they are very messy and only interested in canned food so far so it gets everywhere. 

Normally we would try to leave kittens with their mom. But this entire colony, though they have a caregiver, is in rough shape. Their mom and her sister are both trap savvy and hard to catch. But their mom was looking very thin so a decision was made to pull the kittens and the rescue did manage to trap her so she is now spayed. Her sister is next on the list and then there will only be a couple boys left as far as we know.

Since we know they are related to the Italian dessert kittens, we decided to go with Italian cities. (Yes they need another bath - but they are also little and messy so that stay clean for about 90 seconds).

Asti

Tortie girl

Palermo

Orange and white boy

Mondavi

Darker orange boy

Parma

Lighter orange boy

They are currently in the play pen but will hopefully get an upgrade when the girls go to the store. 

Thank goodness for the air lock

 The fruit girls are enjoying being in the foster room. Mostly. They give mom a hard time in the mornings and demand freedom. To which mom says: not a chance. While it's nice the are people friendly, it makes it difficult to work. They get some time out in the evenings though and they spent most of the with house privileges. 

Thankfully they aren't quite tall enough to get over the gate so the inside door can be open without escapees.

Katie asked about their whiskers - they are starting to grow back and in fact Fig has a couple that have grown out. 

Fig

Apricot

Apricot & Lychee

The girls do love those squeeze up treats

Switch back

 Mario and Luigi go back to the shelter today. They are doing very well and will hopefully get adopted quickly.

That means the girls will go back into the foster room which we are sure they will enjoy. They have been getting time out loose in the house, but they make work harder for mom so it will be nice for them to have more space during the day when they get a time out. 

Lychee

Fig

Apricot

They are all very sweet though Fig is the more independent of the three. They love toys and seem to be having fun with Boba though she can be a little rough on them (not intentionally - she's just bigger and plays hard).

Attack of Boba-saurus Rex

Still need to get some weight on them before surgery so they will be here for a little bit longer.

Weekend report

 Its been a week.

A good friend of mom's had a tornado hit her house so she's been supporting her from a distance as things settle in. She and her cats are ok but the rest is going to take time to fix.

We got a couple of older kittens from the shelter for a couple of weeks as they recover from colds. They are in the foster room since they are bigger. Meet Luigi (white markings) and Mario (all brown).

The little girls moved to a play pen in the living room since they are smaller. 

Someone asked on our last post about their whiskers. They ate like people hair or finger nails. They will grow out and then grown more. They already are a little bit longer.

Mom spent Saturday working on her desk area.

Sunday she let the little girls out to play. They had a good time running around. Though not too sure how they felt about being chased by Boba.

She found the open door.

Not sure she would be happy if it 

was zipped shut though. Haha

New kittens

 Gelato and Biscotti are at a partner store waiting (impatiently no doubt) for their family to show up. We will keep you posted.

In the meantime, the rescue did a little shuffling so we have kittens here that were bottle fed and then with another foster and are now here. There are actually 4 siblings, but their brother is being adopted by a good friend of the head of the rescue so he is living with them.

Fig

Apricot

Lychee

Meet the fruit girls. They are all very sweet and very playful. Mom did notice that all of them are missing their whiskers. After some investigation, turns out their brother has all of his whiskers. So we know who the viewer was in the family. Haha

Lychee is about 6 ounces lighter than her sisters. Most fosters with any experience will tell you there is always that one that has to be different. Mom is keeping an eye on their weights but she is acting normal so no worries. 

Boba has been in to play with them but is going to get herself banned if she doesn't start being a little more gentle. She is bigger and plays harder and we don't think she realizes it.