The kitten had her shots on Friday. She's doing well although she is small for her age.

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We have a whole pound of kitten! Her cold is clearing up, she's eating independently and she's gaining weight at last.

One kitten has a bad cold. She can't/won't eat on her own so we are syringe feeding her a/d. The other has diarrhoea. Basically she is an exploding poop machine. Both kits are now on antibiotics and lysine to try and boost their immune systems.

The good news is that they are both lively and alert though neither is gaining weight. If things go well they should improve over the next couple of days but meanwhile it's lots of smelly kitten work.

I snapped a few pictures of the kittens this morning. They are very messy eaters so be prepared...

( Messy kittens )

No one from THS had called with any news on little grey girl so we stopped by about one o'clock to see what was happening. They couldn't find her! The vet who admitted her had buggered off to New Zealand. None of the techs knew where she was. We checked all the cat rooms with the tech. The foster volunteer coordinator checked again. No sign of kitten. There's no record that she has died so that's mildly encouraging though, given the general state of their record keeping, hardly conclusive.

Can I has mah kitan now pleez?

As we currently have shelter kittens we decided that there was no excuse for not getting Padmini and Jane's shots up to date. We tend only to do this when one of the cats has to go to the vet for other reasons as the process is usually fairly traumatic. True to form, Jane realised what was up and almost managed to hide long enough to avoid the trip. Eventually I managed to catch her and a really hard time getting her into the carrier. Once at the vet though she was a sweetie. She spent the time in the waiting room mostly wrapped around my neck and was very good with the vet. Padmini was easy to catch but yowled and yowled fit to bust all the way to the vet. She also threw quite a hissy fit when he tried to examine her. Both cats are in great shape and now are up to date for Rabies and Feline Leukemia. Jane isn't speaking to me yet though.

The kittens are still doing well and their eyes are beginning to open.

We have kittens again. Check out lemur_catta for details and pictures but, in summary, we have two three day old bottle feeders. The lemur is on night kitten duty and was about as out of it as a person can be this morning.

I spent Saturday up at the square. There was some really good rugby even if the Nomads Firsts lost by one point on the last play of the game.

We got another organic veggie box. I made a rather good kale and beet green frittata last night.

Last night the lemur and I went to a party chez lemur's dance teacher. It was the first time I had been there and thus the first chance I have had to meet Cini and Poppa. They are the grown up versions of the first two kittens we fostered (originally known as Hoover and Scruff) and are nw about three years old. I was curious to see how they would react to me. Both cats stayed well out of the way for the whole party but I managed to track them down. Cini is big and very black and looks like a female version of frankie_ecap's Woskar. She didn't recognise me (I don't think I expected her to) but she let me scritch her behind the ears. Poppa was harder to track down. Apparently he's not at all social with people. He hissed when I went anywhere near him. It wasn't the sort of aggressive hissing that Leela does when she's upset but it was clear he didn't want to be touched. He is huge and an enormous furball. I'm guessing he weighs ten times what he did as a two month old kitten as he was not a big kitten at all.

It was a pretty good party too with some serious beer geekery.