break out

As it was left on Monday, Mopar had broken IN to baby jail twice Saturday night and Sunday morning. Mom decided to surrender since the last time (Mopar wasn't going OVER - he was pushing the gate) resulted in Cricket getting out and wandering around the room.

Mom took the pen done Sunday morning and let everyone mingle. There was some name calling, the little kittens bounced around and occasionally put on their "stranger danger" outfits. All in all however, it went fairly well. Meal time is taking longer as mom has to stay in the room to make sure that everyone gets to eat....some of them aren't very good about staying in their own spots.

Lane leans over to give a little kitten a good whacking

same little kitten yells at Lane that she wasn't done with her just yet

Beetle checks out the track ball.

Considering that the bug kittens are less than half the size of the single kittens, it has been going pretty well. Luckily Fate and Lane have decided that the little ones can be fun, but bouncing on each other is MORE fun.
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In other news: the single kittens went yesterday for their spay/neuter surgeries. Fate and Lane are doing well and are now ready for their new homes.

Mopar however was having some issues. We had been treating him and hoping for the best, but he looked bad at the clinic yesterday. They tapped his belly and pulled out yellow fluid which is a sign of FIP and the director of the rescue authorized them to euthanize him. Mom is heartbroken. He took a while to come around but once he did he became a wonderful and lovely boy. Mom spent some time in the kitten room on Monday night and gave him lots of love.

Mopar

weekend report

Quick note: mom discovered who is fostering the A kittens. They have been renamed but are doing great with the bottle feeders and are growing like mad.
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Mopar is making great progress. Mom left him by himself for a day last weekend when she was at an event and it has made a lot of difference. He is still a little shy but he is coming over and looking for attention and not running as much. He is more eager to come over when mom is sitting down rather than when she is standing. She still has to grab him, but he then relaxes and purrs while she pets him.

 Lane has lots of opinions about EVERYTHING! She is doing great and has no issues telling those boys exactly what she thinks of them.

 

so judgy

 

Lane is a shoulder dweller

Fate is harder to get pictures of since he runs around the room like a nut or is snuggled up to mom trying to get all the attention.

Mom did weigh everyone yesterday. Mopar is 1 pound 12 ounces, Fate is 1 pound 9 ounces, and Lane is 1 pound 7 ounces. Everyone is gaining weight - plus they were all dewormed again so that will help as well. They have been getting canned food once a day in addition to what they have available all the time. But based on size, they will be with us for a few weeks anyhow.

Random Fridays

At the event last weekend, one of our favorite photographers David Brown was there taking pictures for rescues and adopters (he has taken several of Chanel that we have posted before). Mom took over Cipher, Roomba and Fate for pictures. As always, they are awesome:

Cipher

Fate

aka danger nugget

Roomba

(she looks like she is in training for the next serial killer movie)

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Also, since this is the time of year when we are up to our ears at the rescue with mom cats and kittens, but also with single kittens, mom took in another single and she is in the foster room with Fate and Mopar.

Meet Lane. She was left at one of our rescue's partner stores in a carrier all by herself....no note, no nothing. She has been tested (negative) and vaccinated and met the boys on Tuesday. They spent a good deal of time getting up in her personal space and she spent that same time telling them to get lost. She is a little bit smaller than Fate and Mopar but definitely holding her own.

Random Fridays

If you are anywhere near Ohio, there is a big event this weekend at the Franklin County Fairgrounds. Fetch A Friend and Shop Local got together for a huge shopping and pet adoption event. 11-4 Saturday and Sunday. Mom will be out there both days with Colony Cats and is hoping to take Roomba and Cipher.
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Mom is a little concerned about Anastasia. She is taking good care of the kittens but certainly isn't eating much to keep herself and 3 kittens going. Mom gave her some canned food Tuesday night and she ate it, ate most of another can Wednesday night but wouldn't touch anything Thursday morning. Mom spoke to the rescue and they may try an appetite stimulant just to jump start her.
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what? mini panthers are tasty

Good news: Cipher is now neutered!! So he can be put on the website and we can start searching for his forever home.

In other news, Cipher seems to think it is a giant game to see if he can get OUT of the foster room before mom gets IN the foster room. The other night he made it out and mom gave up and left him out for a while as she spent time with Mopar and Fate and cleaned and fed everyone. She came back out and he was having a blast so she let him run around for a little longer. He headed down the steps and must have stopped a couple of steps from the top. Goldfish wandered over (keep in mind she did KNOW he was loose in the house), his head popped up over the edge of the steps, and Goldfish went FULL Halloween cat on him - though no hissing, just all fluffed up.

Mopar is still kind of suspicious of mom. She is thinking about maybe moving him to a smaller crate in the living room for a couple of days. It tends to work with scaredy/feral type kittens to help them friendly up some. Not sure WHY it works, but it tends to. Of course that will leave a very whiny Fate in the kitten room by himself if Cipher goes to the adoption event all weekend. Oh well - mom says she won't be home to listen to him complain about it. MOL
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you really going out looking like that?

(honestly we never know quite what that girl is thinking,

but she sure looks like she has opinions about everything)

the other kittens

Mopar and his tongue

He is doing....OK. He is out a lot when mom isn't home but still

isn't too sure about being held. She has started giving them some 

canned food in the evening and is going to use that as bribery.

Fate

The boy is a lover. Once he makes weight and is available for

adoption, some very lucky family is going to get a great kitten.

yes - there is a cat on the other side of the door

so concerned about everything

no Fate, you really can't fit through that opening

Darth Cipher

That boy and his snot. He is on a second round of antibiotics and has been nebulized a few times to help him breath better. Seems to work for a few days and then we are back to hearing him breath across the room. However - he isn't sneezing green snot and heaven knows he is active and eating and being his dorky self. The rescue is concerned it may be a polyp but the only way to really know is knock him out and stick a scope up his nose. We aren't there yet, but that may end up being an option. Of course, he hasn't been neutered yet and therefore can't be adopted yet either. In the meantime, he is very BORED in the kitten room with the littler boys and will happily howl his complaints in the evening.

one of these things

First, Roomba was spayed on Thursday. The head of the rescue dropped her off at the clinic with other kittens and mom did the pick up. In the Escape was Roomba, 4 other carriers and a live trap with a feral boy that had been neutered. Makes mom glad she got the bigger car.

Roomba was going to go up to the adoption center on Saturday but we have a TON of kittens and the cages are full. Mom put her up on the website and will take her to the kitten shower next weekend (or to the center sooner if space opens up) and she will hopefully find her forever home quickly. The rescue has lots of available kittens - as does every other rescue out there.
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As with every rescue out there, we are up to our eyeballs in cats and kittens. Our director finally had to say we can't do intake for a few days unless it is an emergency due to lack of space and foster homes.

Some rescues and fosters won't mix litters. We absolutely respect and understand that. Our rescue will and mom is OK with it once kittens are tested and have a vaccine on board.

That said, a single kitten came in mid week and mom agreed to take him home on Saturday morning. He was a little scared when he came in so it will benefit him to be with other kittens that are super friendly. Someone found him in the exhaust pipe of a car and brought him to the rescue. He is about the size of Fate and skittish. He has hissed at mom a couple of times but she catches him and loves on him and the last time he relaxed and purred for her so we have no doubts he will be fine.

 

Meet Mopar

 

friends already - Mopar and Fate

Ciper and Roomba do tend to treat the little kittens like cat toys. Fortunately they also like the beat the daylights out of each other. Fate seems to take them both in stride but Mopar isn't really sure what to do with the two bigger kittens right now.

Oh and as for the title of today: we had originally anticipated getting more black kittens (sensing a theme here) but another foster home opened up on Friday and they went to that home. So we now have - one of these things is not like the others. MOL