Hey. Remember how we weaned the Wonkas and I was all “Yeah, I don’t think I want any more bottle babies” and then God laughed and sent me the Cookies?
Well, we’ve gotten the Cookies mostly weaned (except for that spoiled rotten Pink, who really could be perfectly well weaned by now, but when you’re faced with the Eyes of Hope and “Ba ba? Ba ba?”, only the most heartless person would deny the little princess.) I said to Fred the other day “Oh, thank god, the bottle feeding is now mostly at an end!”
Fred’s even feeding the Cookies when he gets up in the morning and giving Pink her bottle so I don’t have to get up at 4:30 any more! It is GLORIOUS.
So then.
The day before yesterday I was in the kitchen, and the phone rang. I saw by the caller ID that it was the shelter manager.
“Hi,” she said when I answered the phone. “Is this the kitten daycare?”
“Oh, god,” I groaned. “Whaaaaat?”
Two 11 day-old kittens had been abandoned by their mother on this woman’s patio. She wasn’t necessarily looking to get rid of them, she was doing okay with bottle feeding them, but she has a job and can’t take the kittens with her.
Susan reassured me that I didn’t have to, that I could say no, but honestly, I didn’t mind taking them for a few hours. I mean, I get them for the day, I feed and snuggle them and kiss their little faces, and I hand them back over.
AND I don’t have to get up at 4:30 to feed them!
(Seriously, though. God really wants me to have bottle babies in my life, huh?)
She dropped them off yesterday morning, and they ate pretty well, they pottied just fine, and they purred like mad for me. They’re not named, and I don’t know if she’s planning to give them up – she said she was going to try to find a home for them because she travels a lot, but then she said she might get attached to them – but they’re awfully cute.
(I wasn’t able to get good pictures of them this time around, but they’ll be back Saturday, so hopefully then!)
The all-black one (I think it’s a girl, but I didn’t look that closely, so I could be wrong).
The black and white one – definitely a boy.
Mr. Black and White has a ring around his tail. It’s so cute! (I was calling him “Ringo” in my head, of course.)
They’re adorable, but I have to admit – at this age, all they do is eat and sleep and they’re kinda boring. Shhh, don’t tell anyone I said that! They’ll take my Crazy Cat Lady title away!
My poor Wonkas. They had their vaccinations on Wednesday, and all day yesterday when I’d pet them, I’d accidentally pet the injection site, which was still sore, and they’d cry at me, and I’d feel like the most evil person alive.
They forgave me, though. They always do, thank god.
Kitty yoga.
Violet practices her awesome karate moves.
The Cookies are doing well. I put them in the bathroom for a little while yesterday so I could get their room cleaned. Have I mentioned that the way they track food and god knows what else all over the hardwood floors drives me nuts? I finally convinced Fred that we should move the desk out of that room and then put all three litter boxes where the desk was. I vacuumed and mopped the floor, and it looks a million times better in there.
Now that they’re mostly off the bottle (except, of course, for Princess Pink, who’ll give up that bottle when we pry it out of her cold dead paws), we put the kitty condo over next to the bed, so they can climb up on the condo, and then climb up on the bed. They don’t do it when they’re in there alone, but when I go in and lay down on the bed, they about have a shoving match to see who can get up on the bed the fastest.
Pink and Hydrox both require a little help to get up on the bed, but they seem to have no problems getting down.
Did I mention that I weighed Hydrox two days ago and he’s at a pound and a half? He is one solid little guy.
“I HAZ A COMPLAINT!”
“EXCUSE ME HI I HAZ A COMPLAINT AND MY COMPLAINT IS MORE COMPLAINY THAN HERS IS!”
When you mix canned pumpkin with canned kitten food and feed it to light-colored kittens, you inevitably get orange noses.
Is it just me, or does she look strikingly like a Gremlin?
Snoozin’ Spanky.
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Previously
2008: Kara said ::hiss!::
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.