Random Fridays

There have been requests for a Romero update: he is doing well and while he is VERY bored in the crate, he is behaving for the most part. His eye was leaking a little bit last weekend and was swollen but that has cleared up as well. He has to wear the cone and be restricted for his own protection - even if he wouldn't actively try to mess with his eye, he could accidentally scratch it and pull out stitches and then we are right back where we started. He is managing to play some with the toys in his crate, though between figuring out his new vision limitations and wearing the cone, his accuracy leaves something to be desired (though he is fun to watch).

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Mallard is being hilarious. He loves to wander over when mom is in the bathroom with them and just stare at her. Mom says she is beginning to get a complex. They are 5 weeks old today and have started showing some interest in the food Panache is eating. Mallard walked over the other day to her dish, sniffed it, back up, came up and sniffed again, put on his stranger danger suit and walked away. Of course mom didn't have her camera, but she laughed at him. Their teeth are starting to come in so Panache will more than likely start encouraging them to eat on their own more.
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Chanel really is headed up to the adoption center today. Hopefully she will find her forever family over the weekend.

Romero gets his stitches out next Wednesday and there will be 2 boys going with him to the clinic to be neutered.

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Romero is doing well. Mom feels bad as he keeps trying to take a bath and obviously has no success. She is going to try to give him some supervised time with the cone off. No swelling or anything else so it looks like he is healing up really well. Another 10 days to get the stitches out. With his coloring, mom suspects no one will notice the eye until they get close.

Tommy and Daiquiri are fascinated by the crate. Spud has slept on it as well. Daiquiri was more interested before mom moved the food dish further back into the crate where she can't reach it.

Misery loves company

Unfortunately when kittens come in without a mom, there can be immunity issues. The rat pack kittens were about 5 weeks old when they were brought to the rescue and vaccinated upon intake. However, they started getting snotty before their second round and then moved on to runny eyes. Harlow seemed to take the runny eyeballs to an extreme and hers swelled up and she was put on medication. Since she chose not to go it alone, she promptly gave her cooties to Romero.

Bless, the boy, he took them and ran with it......

Romero prior to his eye issues

His one eye got worse and worse and mom took him to the rescue to have it checked out. We will spare you any pictures...cause you know it is bad when even mom says "ewww".

There was an opening at the clinic yesterday, so mom dropped him off on the way to work and the head of the rescue took him down. They neutered him and removed his right eye. It won't look nice for a while, but kittens adapt pretty quickly and we are sure he was very uncomfortable.

Mom picked him up after work and set him up in the large crate (that mom still hasn't returned to her friend Kelly). He was NOT happy. Mom worried at first that he wasn't comfortable or the cone was bothering him, but after a while she began to suspect he is lonely. He has never been without his siblings and now he is locked up by himself.

He does need to be crated and wear the cone until the stitches come out in 2 weeks just to avoid anything happened accidentally (cause we are sure he is going to want to scratch at it). Mom may give him some VERY supervised time out and is thinking maybe of seeing how he does with one of his sisters in there with him (his brothers are WAY to nutty to be allowed near him at this point). But he HOWLED all last night and no one got much sleep, so something has to give.

Wish us luck....it could be a very long 2 weeks. Oh - and we don't mention this very often, but if you have ever thought about helping out the rescue, we would certainly appreciate it. His surgery was $157 (including his neuter) and unexpected. Panache will have to have a dental when she is spayed. It all adds up.... if you want to help out even a little, you can go to Colony Cats and click on the donate button.