The babies have all been really quiet today, not something to worry about all alone, but when I went to feed them for their 7pm feed and nightly weigh, baby Kate who has been eating lost 8G, thats a huge loss for such a young baby. She was also very hard to wake up and slept in my palm for a bit. I was able to get some formula into her but not enough. I think she may have FKS, I am not sure what causes this, all I know is that it affects seemingly healthy kittens suddenly. If she is still here in the morning I will be taking them all to the vet for a once over. If the vet can fix her, she will, but if not I will have her euthanized. I am told that FKS isn't painful but I can't imagine how dying wouldn't be. I also know that the chances of 100% success rate in hand raising any animal is not likely, but yet I want that 100%, I guess anyone would. Dw is down 3G, not a big loss but enough to continue the worry. Arthur and Muffy are doing well and had some big gains, I will post weights at the end as usual.
Their eyes are more open tonight then they were last night and even this morning. Muffy's are almost fully open and Arthur is just behind her, the other 2 are slitted but not enough to see an eyeball just yet. It's a big milestone for their eyes to open, and I am very excited to see how they will look when they can see me, the dogs, the kids etc etc. I can't imagine living my life and not being able to see, even for just a short time. Once their eyes open they grow up into kittens so fast. It's hard to believe that by the end of May beginning of June these babies will be ready to leave here and look for their forever homes. In Another 2 weeks or so they can start eating kitten food, while it probably won't be their main source of nutrition at that point, once they catch on to it, my time will be nearly done with them.
They all had mini baths this afternoon, they woke up about 1pm all covered in someones poop. It's a good thing they are so stinking cute b/c they sure as heck smelled pretty bad lol. None of them seemed to mind the wipe down, and we got extra snuggle time b/c I didn't want to put them back in bed wet or even damp. Snuggle time is tough, you have 4 active kittens who don't wanna sit still. I did get some pics of them as well today, but they are not great pics, again they wouldn't sit still to get them done.
Weighing them tonight was tough, 3 of the 4 are active and I had a heck of a time keeping them on the scale long enough to get a reading.
1) Muffy weighs in at 179G a huge (16G) jump from yesterday's 163...I am not sure that she really did gain all that, but more a high reading due to her activity and being stubborn at weigh time
2) Dw is in at 170G, a 3G loss from last night
3) kate is 172G an 8G loss from last night.
4) Arthur the big brute of a boy is at 185G he is up 11G from yesterday.
Please send some good thoughts to this entire litter, especially baby kate. I will post a follow up of their appt tomorrow.
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