The fosters are slowly getting bigger. Pansy, the bigger of the two, will probably only be with us for another week. Marcy is smaller and weighs less; we figure we’ll have her another two weks before she’s old enough to be adopted into a permanant home.
Becasue it is very hard to get Pansy to hold still long enough to be photographed, I give you more shots of Marcy this week!
Marcy visits Tommy in the office.
She is going to be one beautiful cat when she’s all grown up!
As promised, more kitten photos. Gimi has been a big help in socializing the shyer of our two fosters, Marcy. She purrs like crazy every time she lays eyes on him. We’ve been using this to help her get more comfortable with being around humans. So here the two of the are together in a socializing session:
Right after Scott and I came back from New York, we attended a training class at the SF SPCA in order to become kitten foster parents. I’ve missed working at the SPCA. Although I don’t really have the time to commit to doing the on-site socialization and adoption counseling regularly right now, I still love working with kittens and want to help out where I can. Fostering seemed like a good solution.
And today we got the call. Could I come down and pick up two kittens who needed a foster home for the next two weeks or so? Of course we could. So until they grow to be 2 pounds in weight, we’re fostering two little tabby girls: Pansy and Marcy. Here they are!
Pansy is an outgoing, high-energy kitty:
Marcy is shyer but very, very cute:
The other kitties are adapting well to the newcomers. Gimi in particular is fascinated with them. It’s amazing that this time last year, he was about that size too.
They’re kept in a cage both for their own safety and for the safety of our cats; the kittens are still quite young (approximately six weeks), fragile, and have not completed their vaccinations. Also, they could potentially be carrying illnesses that can pass to our cats. In fact, we should be keeping them in a room away from the other cats here but need to shovel out some space in the office before we can do that.
Rest assured that we are taking the girls out of the cage for playtime and cuddling quite regularly.
I’m sure I’ll be posting more pictures over the next 2 weeks!
As the semester draws to a close, I have had to spend a bunch of time playing with the printer. So has Tommy. Here he is.
Time to go write another paper!
UPDATE: I keep forgetting to use forward slashes in my img tag. Sorry, Firefox viewers. It’s fixed now.
I’ve had a ton of work for school this week, hence the light posting, but at least Tasha is doing much better. To celebrate, here’s a favorite photo of her:
She’s the least evil cat you can think of, but this photo (taken while she was yawning) make her look like Evil Incarante. Or something.
We had to rush Tasha to the nearest all-night animal hospital around 1:00AM after discovering that she had a ruptured abscess near her butt. She was bleeding and leaking pus and other yukky substances.
The doctor at the All Animals Emergency Hospital seems to think she’s going to be OK, but we won’t know for sure until at least 7:00 am. I don’t think we’ll be getting much sleep tonight.
UPDATE: She’s home but she is not out of the woods. The abcess was deep and serious. We have to give her a high dose of antibiotics for the next 10 days and bring her in for a re-check in 2 days.