4 weeks old

the babes are 4 weeks old today, they went from total blindness to having vision, they were once deaf but now they can hear. They went from totally helpless, to almost independent creature. Its amazing how fast they grow and I am so thankful that our human children do not grow that fast, they grow fast but not quite as quick as kittens.
It's hard to imagine them being on their own in this big world.

I had them locked in the kitchen this morning to make cleaning their area easier. They can run, and pretty fast too. I was impressed at just how last week they were still wobbly legged, but are running just 7 days later.

They have become little balls of fire. Arthur seems to have quite the temper, he was fighting with me about his night time bottle, I knew he needed it but man he is stubborn and when he finally did take it he was growling and pissed right off, I have never seen anything like that from him. He has been fighting all his bottles today, but when he realizes that everyone else has had one, he wants it, so now I leave him to the last. Between the 3 of they drink a little less than 4 oz, about every 4 hrs thru the day as well as kitten food mixed with formula.

I did some calculations between both formulas I have given them:

KMR is much easier to mix with the water:powder not changing based on weight. It gets very lumpy and I run it thru a small strainer to get it lump free. I also mix it with the liquid KMR. They gained less on a daily basis with the KMR but were also less colicky and bloated, and their poops were better as well.

Born Free, is less simple to mix as the ratio changes with each bottle, this makes making bottles a pain in the butt since you have to mix each bottle for each kitten differently. They did however gain more weight daily while on the just born.

I will NOT use born free for the mixing reasons unless its a last resort. KMR is much more simpler for me and for anyone, even my 8 year old was able to make bottles for me. However in an emergency, I will resort to this stuff. I have read about homemade formulas online and the fact that they contain raw egg, and mayonnaise concerns me. We all know raw eggs can carry serious risks of illness, I just don't see how tiny newborn kittens would be immune from these illnesses. I suppose though in a true emergency it would be better than nothing. I have also been researching whiskas cat milk, I haven't found anything that says you can give it to unweaned kittens but I do know that in general, whiskas food is not that great. Cats in the wild would seek out a corn field to get their supper, they would however seek out chicken, fish etc etc. ANy food that has corn, rice or any other grain as their first ingredient is not a great diet.

Anyway I have pics tonight, but firs here are their weights

Muffy - She did it and is now 1lb .15oz

Kate - 1lb.15oz notice something about her and Muffy?? for the first time ever, muffy is the same weight as Kate....I no longer have a "smallest" kitty, I have 2 that weigh the same :)

Arthur - weighs in a 1lb.2oz

Pics :

Kate is such a pretty girl , don't be alarmed at the dirt on her face, learning to eat cleanly is tricky business for the cat who is just learning




Muffy has the cutest wee face, I got her while the others were sleeping, but she was awake just sitting there all by herself.



None of Arthur though tonight, he is camera shy and keeps turning himself around so I get great pics of his butt which nobody wants to see. Will try again tomorrow to get some of him.