Busy week

 Daiquiri, Ivy and Boba all had their annual vet visits. Daiquiri went last Monday by herself. She is ok at the vet but her singing tends to get Ivy upset so they don't go together anymore. 

This was Boba's first visit with our vet. She and Ivy went on Friday together. Ivy just got a checkup and a blood draw for a senior panel. Boba got the once over and her rabies vaccine. Mom wasn't sure how Biba would do and while she clearly didn't enjoy it, she wasn't bad. 

The kittens were spayed and neutered last Monday and are now available for adoption. They are a nice group of kittens. 

They can be pretty snuggly once they run around like lunatics and burn off some energy. They will go to the partner store when there is space but are having a good time here and are at least already on Petfinder. 

Happy duck

 Palermo loves that duck (the kittens gained some freedom during the day this weekend).

Until it was stolen

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.

Baby jail

 First, thank you for the kind words on social media. If you didn't see it, Mondavi of the Italian city kittens passed away on Wednesday.

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The other little kittens are still in the playpen. It will be a few more days before they get into the foster room. Movibg other kittens around and need to deep clean.

In the meantime, to give them more space, mom attached tespo panels. Asti climbed the playpen and escaped. 

After several attempts, mom couldn't get the top completely blocked off. 

But wait....what about the large crate? And why has THAT never occurred to get before.

And the kittens said: the crate is square, the playpen is round. We can escape. So much for baby jail 2.0

Ok....so now there is a panel in the far corner. Hopefully that works (don't hold your breath).

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.