Mouse's bad eye is finally starting to open again, and it appears that HE Does in fact have an eye there. WOOT. I knew all my wishing would pay off eventually.
Since he has been gaining so well, I decided that today he could call the shots on feeding time, he usually was awake every 2.5-3 hrs wanting to eat but that changed a few days ago where I was still getting him up and feeding him. Today he ate more at a time then usual, (almost 1.5oz today so far and he has 2 feeds left before bed) but less often. If his gain is good tomorow I will let him set his own schedule, but if there is little, none or a loss than I go back to being boss.
tomorrow we will say goodbye to Jimmy and Sabrina as they head off to their next homes. My plan is to bathe them to get them all clean and smelling good, so if you hear a cat screaming at the top of its lungs, you will know that Jimmy is having a bath and hates it. Sabrina will scream as well but she just isn't as loud or as persistent as her brother, he NEVER gives up and will scream til he gets what he wants.
Hope will be all alone, and I am a little worried about how she will be, especially at night. I hope she is able to take this time to break her sucking habit and learn to be a nicer cat. Mary told me today that there is someone who thinks that chiropractic medicine might help her, so she will be heading off to see a specailist soon...I'm not sure how I feel about a cat seeing a chiro but if it makes her nicer than it will be worth it and who knows how she was taken from her nest by that woman, it may have been very gentle but it also may have been very rough, so I guess its worth a shot and since the chiro dr will see her for free....
anyway, thats my update.
Mouse weight this morning was 222g...20g up from yesterday WAY TO GROW MOUSE!!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
200!!
We made it past the 200G mark, mouse weighs 202G as of 6:30am this morning. I am so proud of him. His good eye is fully opened again and it looks good. Not sure if he can see or how much he sees out of that eye yet.
He has been a little piggy all day, I am assuming he is going through a growth spurt, which is great news as he does need one. he was quite interactive today, more today than he has been to date.
Jimmy and Sabrina will be off to the next phase of their lives it looks like on Friday. Hope will be staying with me until they can find a person who wants just 1 to foster or until she gets adopted. She will be old enough for a juvenile spay very soon, the trick is to getting her to 2lbs, she should be there sometime soon I hope, mind you my scale is no good to weigh her on due to her inability to sit still..I may have to suck it up and weigh myself (no worries I will have 911 on standby lol) and than weigh again with her. My daughter has been asking lots of questions about adoption events and how they work so hopefully we will be attending one soon so she can see just what happens, I don't even know really so it will be a learning experience for the both of us.
I don't have much to report, nothing has changed with any of them.
Mouse's weight was 192 yesterday and 202 today.
Before I go, here are some new pics....and a video, maybe 2 if both will fit.
People ask why Sabrina gets washed so often....this is why, she gets right into her food, this is after EVERY meal.
I was checking in on mouse this morning and he was having a "kitty dream" it was so cute.
He has been a little piggy all day, I am assuming he is going through a growth spurt, which is great news as he does need one. he was quite interactive today, more today than he has been to date.
Jimmy and Sabrina will be off to the next phase of their lives it looks like on Friday. Hope will be staying with me until they can find a person who wants just 1 to foster or until she gets adopted. She will be old enough for a juvenile spay very soon, the trick is to getting her to 2lbs, she should be there sometime soon I hope, mind you my scale is no good to weigh her on due to her inability to sit still..I may have to suck it up and weigh myself (no worries I will have 911 on standby lol) and than weigh again with her. My daughter has been asking lots of questions about adoption events and how they work so hopefully we will be attending one soon so she can see just what happens, I don't even know really so it will be a learning experience for the both of us.
I don't have much to report, nothing has changed with any of them.
Mouse's weight was 192 yesterday and 202 today.
Before I go, here are some new pics....and a video, maybe 2 if both will fit.
People ask why Sabrina gets washed so often....this is why, she gets right into her food, this is after EVERY meal.
I was checking in on mouse this morning and he was having a "kitty dream" it was so cute.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
pork bellies!
My new nickname for mouse is Porker belly. He came to me so scrawny you could seriously count his little ribs. NOT anymore, his belly is fat and he is filling out quite nicely. Now that he is gaining on a steady basis you can see it. He is pretty particular though, when he takes his bottle he likes t stand and lately he doesn't like the bottoms of his feet to touch anything, and he MUST clutch my thumb or finger between his 2 front paws. If you try to put his feet down he stops eating and hollers at you. He has made a friend with a stuffed dog that I have put in with him, he sleeps on this dog and snuggles up to it.
His weight this morning was awesome, almost at the 200G mark. His eyes are doing a bit better, his good eye seems to be light sensitive and will only open in low light situations. I am hoping this is because of the infection and not something for him to have forever.
The other 3, well what can I say. They are certainly 3 very mischievous little beings. They very much enjoy their 1-2am play sessions, and I have to say they are not very respectful of us humans trying to sleep lol. The gate was a bust, they have figured their way out of that and will be moved back into the kennel. It sucks but they escape so much and have discovered my parrot, I am not so much worried about them hurting him but him hurting them. I have tried to keep them in their area but the 3 just refuse and I need to keep everyone safe.
nothing much to really update tonight. But Mouse went from 179G to 192G this morning, I am getting more and more excited about his weight gains and stand by my word that one day he will be named "moose" instead of mouse :)
His weight this morning was awesome, almost at the 200G mark. His eyes are doing a bit better, his good eye seems to be light sensitive and will only open in low light situations. I am hoping this is because of the infection and not something for him to have forever.
The other 3, well what can I say. They are certainly 3 very mischievous little beings. They very much enjoy their 1-2am play sessions, and I have to say they are not very respectful of us humans trying to sleep lol. The gate was a bust, they have figured their way out of that and will be moved back into the kennel. It sucks but they escape so much and have discovered my parrot, I am not so much worried about them hurting him but him hurting them. I have tried to keep them in their area but the 3 just refuse and I need to keep everyone safe.
nothing much to really update tonight. But Mouse went from 179G to 192G this morning, I am getting more and more excited about his weight gains and stand by my word that one day he will be named "moose" instead of mouse :)
Monday, July 4, 2011
mani's and pedi's all around!!
The 3 bigger kittens, Hope, Sabrina and Jimmy are nearly weaned. All 3 are taking only a bottle at night and not very much at that. Currently they are eating softened and crushed up kitten chow. At the beginning it was a very messy job, however it isn't quite as bad now. Except for Sabrina who really gets into her food, she is such a mess after every meal, she needs a wipe down, but at night she gets a good cleaning. She is getting neater though. Hope has always been a very clean eater and almost never needs a cleaning or wipedown.
My dog groomer came today for the dogs, so I asked her to trim some really sharp kitty nails as well, of course all 4 of them were not impressed and maybe even a little ticked at me for holding them and making it get done.
Mouse had a great day, he gained some again and has been eating on a pretty regular 2.5-3hr schedule today. His infected "good" eye is looking a little better. His bad eye is starting i think to look better. He had it open a crack today and I think (but am not positive) that I did see an eye or part of one. I am anxious to see what will happen if that eye ever does open on its own all the way. he is such a funny little guy, he is so wee but yet is such a big boy in some ways. When he wakes up he just sits there, looking around (even though his eyes are sealed by infection) as soon as my hand goes into his bed, he practically attacks it lol.
His weight today was 179G so up 10G from yesterday...his progress is exciting, almost makes me giddy exciting.
My dog groomer came today for the dogs, so I asked her to trim some really sharp kitty nails as well, of course all 4 of them were not impressed and maybe even a little ticked at me for holding them and making it get done.
Mouse had a great day, he gained some again and has been eating on a pretty regular 2.5-3hr schedule today. His infected "good" eye is looking a little better. His bad eye is starting i think to look better. He had it open a crack today and I think (but am not positive) that I did see an eye or part of one. I am anxious to see what will happen if that eye ever does open on its own all the way. he is such a funny little guy, he is so wee but yet is such a big boy in some ways. When he wakes up he just sits there, looking around (even though his eyes are sealed by infection) as soon as my hand goes into his bed, he practically attacks it lol.
His weight today was 179G so up 10G from yesterday...his progress is exciting, almost makes me giddy exciting.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
graduation day
for mouse. I have 3 rubber maid bins that are that tall but are great for newborns and sick babies who need to be confined. I have cut the middle out of the lids and attached some screening so they can breathe. Anyway, mouse has been living in one of those for the past while. He is as old as the others but apart from small play sessions with all, I pretty much keep him on his own, just b/c there is no way he can hold his own against a kitty like Hope.
he got me up at 5:50 am screaming his wee head off, I got up to see what the trouble was and discovered that the poor guy had wet his bed so badly that he had nowhere else to lay that was dry. I swear he flooded his bed, everything was soaked. After cleaning him and the bed up, I decided that it was time to move him into my big bin, its about 3.5-ft long and about 2ft high, this will allow space for a a litter box, but will also allow him more space to get away if he wets his bed again. Got it all set up and put him in and OMG he looks so lost, and so small. People have been surprised when they see him in person just how small he is, so I took a pic of a toddlers size 5 slipper and a coke can to give a better idea of his size.
I put him in with the others last night for a short spell, and Sabrina did the best with him, Hope wants to attack him, she was actually stalking him. Jimmy wants to kick him and jump on him and pin the poor bugger down. needless to say the play date was short and sweet. I will probably do this daily until the others go just so mouse gets a little social time with other cats. He wants to join them and he might very well be fine, it's me who has the issues with him and his difficulties against 2 very kittens who have proven to be quite aggressive....Lots of pics today, I have been not so great at posting pics of this litter, my camera is being a pill, so when it finally started working again, I went a bit crazy lol. Sabrina is still super hard to photograph, she doesn't like to be in the limelight.
~*~* pics~*~*~
Mouse in his new bed, see how lost and little he looks?
Mouse with a coke can
Hope has such a pretty colour of blue eyes, I suspect she has Siamese in her due to her face shape and temperament so they may stay this colour, I hope so.
The best shot of Sabrina she would let us get...
Hope and her stalking, chasing, hunting ..
he got me up at 5:50 am screaming his wee head off, I got up to see what the trouble was and discovered that the poor guy had wet his bed so badly that he had nowhere else to lay that was dry. I swear he flooded his bed, everything was soaked. After cleaning him and the bed up, I decided that it was time to move him into my big bin, its about 3.5-ft long and about 2ft high, this will allow space for a a litter box, but will also allow him more space to get away if he wets his bed again. Got it all set up and put him in and OMG he looks so lost, and so small. People have been surprised when they see him in person just how small he is, so I took a pic of a toddlers size 5 slipper and a coke can to give a better idea of his size.
I put him in with the others last night for a short spell, and Sabrina did the best with him, Hope wants to attack him, she was actually stalking him. Jimmy wants to kick him and jump on him and pin the poor bugger down. needless to say the play date was short and sweet. I will probably do this daily until the others go just so mouse gets a little social time with other cats. He wants to join them and he might very well be fine, it's me who has the issues with him and his difficulties against 2 very kittens who have proven to be quite aggressive....Lots of pics today, I have been not so great at posting pics of this litter, my camera is being a pill, so when it finally started working again, I went a bit crazy lol. Sabrina is still super hard to photograph, she doesn't like to be in the limelight.
~*~* pics~*~*~
Mouse in his new bed, see how lost and little he looks?
Mouse with a coke can
Hope has such a pretty colour of blue eyes, I suspect she has Siamese in her due to her face shape and temperament so they may stay this colour, I hope so.
The best shot of Sabrina she would let us get...
Hope and her stalking, chasing, hunting ..
Saturday, July 2, 2011
sometimes all it takes...
is a little perseverance and a string desire to prove people wrong. Mouse gained another 15G since yesterday. He is now at 166 making him 36 MORE grams than when he arrived just over a week ago looking so scrawny and unloved. Poor wee man has had his issues. Nobody even me thought he would live, but the more people that doubted the more stubborn I became.
I couldn't take it anymore. The 3 bigger kittens being locked in such a small place was breaking my heart. So I spent the $40 for a piece of nice looking white coated wood and made them a better gate. Because it's coated, they won't be able to climb it easily if ever and it's fully washable. There is now only a small space that if they find it could probably fit through. My house is old and things are not exactly square anymore, if ever they were. I am hoping the space is to small for them to find it and try to see if they fit. IF they do, they will have to be returned to the kennel. eventually they will learn how to jump over it but for now they still keep all 4's on the floor.
Tomorrow I plan to NOT offer their bottles in the morning, if they cry and are persistent I won't refuse them but I am hoping they won't miss it. Hope doesn't even suck the bottle anymore, she chews for what she wants, Jimmy is getting to be the same way. Bottles are not as exciting for them as they were last week. Which means we are well on our way to being fully weaned and being "big kitties' instead of newborns. Weaning is very exciting for me as it means that the chance of loss of after weaning goes right down to almost zero.
We are having a thunder storm so I am off for the night but mouse this mornign weighed 166G.
I couldn't take it anymore. The 3 bigger kittens being locked in such a small place was breaking my heart. So I spent the $40 for a piece of nice looking white coated wood and made them a better gate. Because it's coated, they won't be able to climb it easily if ever and it's fully washable. There is now only a small space that if they find it could probably fit through. My house is old and things are not exactly square anymore, if ever they were. I am hoping the space is to small for them to find it and try to see if they fit. IF they do, they will have to be returned to the kennel. eventually they will learn how to jump over it but for now they still keep all 4's on the floor.
Tomorrow I plan to NOT offer their bottles in the morning, if they cry and are persistent I won't refuse them but I am hoping they won't miss it. Hope doesn't even suck the bottle anymore, she chews for what she wants, Jimmy is getting to be the same way. Bottles are not as exciting for them as they were last week. Which means we are well on our way to being fully weaned and being "big kitties' instead of newborns. Weaning is very exciting for me as it means that the chance of loss of after weaning goes right down to almost zero.
We are having a thunder storm so I am off for the night but mouse this mornign weighed 166G.
Friday, July 1, 2011
uphill but stable
Ok, so I have been slacking off the past 2 days. I will explain.
Monday night a friend I provide daycare called me, her moms dog had puppies on Saturday 7 of them. Sunday the mom quit feeding them, the humans didn't feed the babies either. Monday morning, 3 puppies had passed in the night. They took the bitch to the vet, she had an infection and were told by the vet that the humans would need to handfeed these puppies if they were to survive. They bought formula went home and then decided to NOT feed them and let them die. My friend grabbed the 4 left puppies and called me, asking me to feed them for her, they were pretty dehydrated etc etc...of course I couldn't refuse, these puppies needed someone and it seemed I was it. So she brought me 4 pups, another had passed on its way here. I got them fed and bedded down. 2 more pups died later on that evening, leaving 1 little girl. We named her Sarah, she passed on Wednesday afternoon. SO thats where I have been.
All that being said, there really hasn't been much to report, the 3 bigger kittens are unweighable now due to the inability to stand still for 30 seconds lol. I have been weaning them and they are down to 2 bottles in the daytime, 1 in the morning and 1 just before bed. I will likely drop the first bottle on Monday and see how they do.
They are a feisty group and if I am to be honest I have to say that the 4 kittens I have now have NOT been easy. Sweet and loveable for sure but they have also been very high maintenance. All 4 have been on antibiotics, all have been to the vet, 1 was rushed in after hrs on a Sunday night. But amazingly enough I have 3 healthy kittens that will soon be placed in their next home for socialization with other cats. Sabrina is the ring leader and yesterday she decided to teach the group how to climb over their gate and run amuck in the house. No matter how many times I put them back, they had other ideas...for their own safety they have been put into the dogs kennel, however with their litter box, they only have about a 12 inch by 6 inch space to play and sleep. Thank goodness I am home enough plenty of playtime outside the kennel but they really shouldn't be stuck in it to begin with, But weighing the pros and cons, it's the best, and safest solution for now. I am hoping they will be placed super soon b/c living in a cage isn't fair, nor do they enjoy it one bit. getting out to play will prove harder on Monday when the weekend is over and i have little kids here again, that will be sure to step on them by mistake.
Mouse update ~*~
what can I say about my mouse man, he has been through so much in his few weeks of life, he has already been through more than most adult cats will ever have to deal with. He is a trouper though and is still doing well. After his first gain this week he started to lose weight again just a gram a day but to much for someone who is so little already. Yesterday he did a great job eating, up until then it took me all day to get a tbsp of formula into him, seriously no word of a lie. yesterday he started taking a full tbsp on his own not once but about 3x ...I knew that if I didn't see a gain after that, that he likely had some metabolic issue and probably would pass on much to young. I worried all night, kept waking up to check the clock to see if it was time for his weigh. Finally at 6am, I was fed up with waiting, got up, got him up and weighed him......he DID gain...about 15G since yesterday. OMG you should have seen me doing the happy jog across my kitchen floor, if anyone had seen me I'm sure they would have called the men in the white coats to come retrieve me. It was exciting, I felt the uphill battle I/him have been fighting might finally plateau and we would see nothing but improvements with him. He isn't eating as well today as he did yesterday but he IS still eating quite well. His good eye seems like it may be getting infected, so I am putting drops into it to try and stop whatever is happening to him. The wound on his face at his lip, seems to have also stabilized and doesn't appear to be eating his face any more. All in all things with him are going quite well, I am to nervous to get to hopeful but I still have loads of hope for him. My biggest worry is the attachment I am getting with him, I suppose it shouldn't be a worry just yet as he will be with us for quite some time still but still, I am already thinking about the fact that one day Mary is going to come for him. I would adopt him myself but with the parrot it would be a stupid move on my part.
His weight today was 151G a 15G increase from yesterday and a 21G increase from his first weigh in at my house, the night he arrived....
Monday night a friend I provide daycare called me, her moms dog had puppies on Saturday 7 of them. Sunday the mom quit feeding them, the humans didn't feed the babies either. Monday morning, 3 puppies had passed in the night. They took the bitch to the vet, she had an infection and were told by the vet that the humans would need to handfeed these puppies if they were to survive. They bought formula went home and then decided to NOT feed them and let them die. My friend grabbed the 4 left puppies and called me, asking me to feed them for her, they were pretty dehydrated etc etc...of course I couldn't refuse, these puppies needed someone and it seemed I was it. So she brought me 4 pups, another had passed on its way here. I got them fed and bedded down. 2 more pups died later on that evening, leaving 1 little girl. We named her Sarah, she passed on Wednesday afternoon. SO thats where I have been.
All that being said, there really hasn't been much to report, the 3 bigger kittens are unweighable now due to the inability to stand still for 30 seconds lol. I have been weaning them and they are down to 2 bottles in the daytime, 1 in the morning and 1 just before bed. I will likely drop the first bottle on Monday and see how they do.
They are a feisty group and if I am to be honest I have to say that the 4 kittens I have now have NOT been easy. Sweet and loveable for sure but they have also been very high maintenance. All 4 have been on antibiotics, all have been to the vet, 1 was rushed in after hrs on a Sunday night. But amazingly enough I have 3 healthy kittens that will soon be placed in their next home for socialization with other cats. Sabrina is the ring leader and yesterday she decided to teach the group how to climb over their gate and run amuck in the house. No matter how many times I put them back, they had other ideas...for their own safety they have been put into the dogs kennel, however with their litter box, they only have about a 12 inch by 6 inch space to play and sleep. Thank goodness I am home enough plenty of playtime outside the kennel but they really shouldn't be stuck in it to begin with, But weighing the pros and cons, it's the best, and safest solution for now. I am hoping they will be placed super soon b/c living in a cage isn't fair, nor do they enjoy it one bit. getting out to play will prove harder on Monday when the weekend is over and i have little kids here again, that will be sure to step on them by mistake.
Mouse update ~*~
what can I say about my mouse man, he has been through so much in his few weeks of life, he has already been through more than most adult cats will ever have to deal with. He is a trouper though and is still doing well. After his first gain this week he started to lose weight again just a gram a day but to much for someone who is so little already. Yesterday he did a great job eating, up until then it took me all day to get a tbsp of formula into him, seriously no word of a lie. yesterday he started taking a full tbsp on his own not once but about 3x ...I knew that if I didn't see a gain after that, that he likely had some metabolic issue and probably would pass on much to young. I worried all night, kept waking up to check the clock to see if it was time for his weigh. Finally at 6am, I was fed up with waiting, got up, got him up and weighed him......he DID gain...about 15G since yesterday. OMG you should have seen me doing the happy jog across my kitchen floor, if anyone had seen me I'm sure they would have called the men in the white coats to come retrieve me. It was exciting, I felt the uphill battle I/him have been fighting might finally plateau and we would see nothing but improvements with him. He isn't eating as well today as he did yesterday but he IS still eating quite well. His good eye seems like it may be getting infected, so I am putting drops into it to try and stop whatever is happening to him. The wound on his face at his lip, seems to have also stabilized and doesn't appear to be eating his face any more. All in all things with him are going quite well, I am to nervous to get to hopeful but I still have loads of hope for him. My biggest worry is the attachment I am getting with him, I suppose it shouldn't be a worry just yet as he will be with us for quite some time still but still, I am already thinking about the fact that one day Mary is going to come for him. I would adopt him myself but with the parrot it would be a stupid move on my part.
His weight today was 151G a 15G increase from yesterday and a 21G increase from his first weigh in at my house, the night he arrived....
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