Finally Overwhelmed

Well, we may have finally reached our breaking point. Our house is full of animals...well, it has always been full of animals, but now it is REALLY full of animals.

Last week, Misty did the kitten exchange (our ready-for-adoption kittens went into the F.A.R.M. place and we took on some new ones). I stole this idea from someone else, but we are going to start naming all the kittens in each group with the same starting letter. Since we already did two groups this year, we started this group with the letter "C":

The little guy above is Cosmo. He is only two weeks old and still very much on the bottle. At least he takes the bottle well; we had a few that just couldn't seem to figure it out and made you just want to scream. The only problem with him is that he is the only 2-week-old that we have and so he gets lonely. He's too small to be with the other kittens we are fostering b/c they just trample him.


When I'm not feeling quite so overwhelmed, I'll post better photos of the other 3 kittens. They are (from right to left): Charlie Brown, Cisco, and Charlotte. Charlotte is the only girl. They are 4-weeks-old and in the transitional phase, meaning they get the bottle a little bit but can also eat wet food. They are also learning how to use the litterbox. Translation: they are a big stinky mess.

Finally, we have another "foster" named Lena (this is the bigger animal news I had hinted at in the previous post). Lena is a 10-year-old cat that has neurological damage, so she is unsteady on her feet and doesn't do well jumping off things like chairs or couches. She was surrendered by her owner b/c she was getting boarded 10 months out of the year, which was simply not fair. She has medications that she takes in wet food, but we were told she could also eat a little dry. Not so much - she threw up the dry we gave her. We had also been told she only leaks a little (from the rear end) in the mornings, but is otherwise good about using the litterbox. She had some big accidents her first day with us. We are hoping these are all just reactions to a new environment and will clear up soon. She wouldn't be able to run free with our dogs (her wobbling might cause them to snap at her in surprise) and she can't run free with our cats (Sati would pick on her just because she could), so we're thinking of building her an enclosure. I saw a cool one online that seemed like a great idea and not too expensive. Click here to see it (it is made using wire shelving units). We did buy her some newborn diapers yesterday to help with the leaky stool (which would have allowed us to keep her in our bedroom instead of the downstairs bathroom), but they kept sliding off since, as you can see in the photo below, Lena has no tail. Any ideas would be very welcome at this point.


In other news, Tasha has another UTI and has been having accidents all over the house and Shelby chased Sati down with the intention of harm today (Shelby has been going blind and deaf, which often causes dogs to react badly to strange shadows - like cats running past; Sati was fine). I think work has become my vacation at this point.