Are You Their Mother?

I have 2 kittens at home who I have not yet introduced because I haven’t been able to get a decent picture of them!  They were trapped outside with their mama and are still incredibly nervous and shy.  But mama cat was obviously someone’s indoor kitty and then got dumped!  She is incredibly sweet and friendly.  VERY affectionate.  She was in another foster home with her babies until they were ready to be separated.  Two of her kittens were brought to me and now she’s at Petco charming everyone who comes by to visit her!  Hopefully Annie gets adopted soon!  I would be very surprised if she goes the whole weekend without getting one adoption application.  Any guesses as to what her babies look like?

Cinder

Meet Cinder.  She is 6 years old and has been part of the foster program for a significant amount of time.  She came to RCHS as a kitty who would bite and lash out unpredictably.  We speculate she was mistreated by children in her first home, making her nervous and aggressive.

She has greatly improved from initial intake, but she needed to make more progress to be adoptable.  She is at my house in hopes that she will become more trusting and calm.  She is a gorgeous long haired, fluffy kitty who meows at me demanding attention the second I come in the foster room.  She seems to really crave attention, but she perhaps becomes overstimulated after too much petting.  I’m still learning her signs and sounds for what types of affection she is comfortable with.  She has only swiped, not even attempted to bite since she arrived.  She lets me pet her for longer periods of time each time I visit the foster room.  I’m really enjoying my time with her!

Does her floofiness and face remind anyone else of Mirabelle?

So Many Adoptions!

Since I last wrote 2 weeks ago, we have had SO many adoptions!

Every single Spartan was adopted (each went to a separate home).

Caroline went home with her new mama.

Maverick went home with his new mama and a kitty from another one of our foster homes.

Miami went home last night with his new family.

Palmetto should be picked up by her new family tonight.

My math skills tell me that is 7 adoptions in 2 weeks!
Adoptions mean there are new fosters in the house!  But before you meet the new ones, let me remind you of the 2 fosters you already know and love who are still here:

Sweeney and Ebony.  These boys have really blossomed with the change of foster room residents!  Can’t wait to introduce you to the new additions!

Buddies

Sweeney and Maverick have been in the foster room together for about 7 months now.  I think  you can definitely say they’ve become pals!

I hope we can find these guys a home.  They deserve it!  Maverick is the gentlest soul.  And Sweeney cracks me up everyday with his playful antics.  Someone come and adopt them soon!

Panther Photos

 

A few more photos of the darling Panther litter currently in the foster room!

Kendall

Palmetto

Miami

Meet the Panthers

These are the kittens who arrived at my house a week ago!  Goodness, they are sweet bunch!  I named them in honor of the endangered Florida Panther, giving them southern Florida city names.  Let me introduce:

Palmetto (Girl)

Kendall (Girl)

Miami (Boy) (he wasn’t being cooperative for photos!)

I put the blue collar on him to make it easier to tell him and Palmetto apart!

They are about 13 weeks old and were just spayed/neutered yesterday.   Adoptions have been slow-my Spartan girls are still at Petco!  I thought they’d be snatched up in second!  So these little ones may be a round a while longer.  Caroline certainly doesn’t mind-she is bathing and mothering these kittens just like the last group!  I’m going to SO miss her help after she leaves next week!!

Guess Who Found Herself a Home

Sweet Caroline. She goes to her forever home next Friday!!

Henry’s New Collar

Henry and Annie are very rough on Henry’s collars.  He outgrew his first kitten collar, so I purchased a cute saddle stitch collar off Etsy for him.  It only lasted a few months.  Between him scratching it and Annie sinking her teeth into it when they wrestle, the stitching completely came apart! (Annie refuses to wear a collar, but I assume if she did, it would suffer the same fate).

Allow me to introduce you to the greatest cat collar ever-a paracord collar!  It’s made of parachute cord.  This stuff is indestructible.  And if your husband happens to have been Airborne at any point in his military career, he’ll greatly appreciate the material.  The collar must be custom sized to kitty’s neck, so I suggest waiting until they’re an adult before purchasing.  At $12 after S&H, this collar is a steal.  It also includes the absolutely necessary feature of breakaway safety hardware.  If you’d like one for your kitty (or dog! she makes those too), you can find them here.  Katie is great to work with!

Henry looks absolutely darling!  See for yourself.

(I continued his theme of red collars as a tribute to my husband’s Combat Engineer career and my career with the US Army Corps of Engineers!)

Missing Dad.

I knew my husband being gone would be hard on Annie.  She has been enamored with him since the moment she met him as a 4 week old kitten.  But today I really saw her missing him.  After I get out of the shower, she usually jumps right in, rolls around and licks all the dripping water out of the faucet.  Today she jumped in, but then she just sat there looking at me with the saddest eyes I have ever seen on a kitty.  I couldn’t even entice her to drink out of the faucet by turning it on (this would normally cause her to spaz out and start romping around and pawing the water)!  People who say cats aren’t loving are wrong.  They have relationships with their people and are happy when they get to be with them and sad when they aren’t around.  I have never been more convinced of this than I was this morning when I looked at my sweet little calico’s face.

Annie’s normal behavior in the bathtub:

Today’s pictures of her in the bathtub.  After I took the pictures, I immediately picked her up and cuddled her and told her I missed him too.

Don’t worry.  Her Uncle Mikey is coming to visit this weekend.  He’ll lift her spirits and spoil her rotten!

New Kittens!

I think there’s some rule about my foster room always having to be full!  48 hours after the Spartans went to Petco, I got 3 more little kittens.  They’re actually about the same age as the Spartans.  They came to us from the Leavenworth, Kansas shelter that was filled to capacity.  Very social and playful!  This should be an easy group-they’re ready for spays and neuter so we’ll be getting it taken care of quickly.  Since they’re socially ready to be adopted, we just have to medically get them ready to be adopted.  No sign of any illness, so we should have them on their way shortly 🙂   I’m still working on names for these 2 girls and a boy!