Friday, April 17, 2009

More Picture Time

The Squeakles Trio are now almost 4 weeks old, and have begun their transition to solid foodies.

Two of the three have been dubbed with names, but one of the little calico gals is steadfastly refusing to pick a name for herself.


The other calico has accepted the dubbing of "Basil" that she received from one of my co-workers when she was first brought into the hospital (once she was old enough to accept it), and the little boy has been dubbed Titian.








Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Grey Stripes- The '09 Boys Band!

The second batch of my '09 kittens ended up not spending a whole lot of time with me, because by the time I got them they were already in the process of transitioning to solid foodies. One of our local Animal Control officers had received a call about a handful of "feral" kittens that needed to get picked up, and thinking that they were still quite young, contacted me via the hospital to take them on and bottle feed them. As it turned out the kittens were small, but are approximately 4-4.5 weeks old, so after only a day or so of bottle nursing, which two of the three were not terribly fond of, we tried some wet kitten food to see what they thought of that idea, and it was an instant success. I had 3 very happy little mews chomping down on nummie wet foodies.

So after a few moments of "Well alrighty then!" I called up my co-worker who fosters the older kittens for me before they get adopted out through the UCDavis Orphan Kitten Program, and sent them on for further loves an attentions until they find their forever homes.

Due to my love-hate relationship with my camera and the fact that I only had the Boys for a few days, I didn't get any decent pictures of them, but my co-worker took a few when she got them home, so I have shamelessly snarfed hers.