Kitten development update: How fun, all newborn kittens are playing, licking, and sucking one another. They still have no teeth but they’re learning how to use their little pink tongues to wash themselves. Of course, the tough cleaning job falls on their mother who is tending to all their needs. The kittens’ well-developed heat receptors (on their noses) make them seek each other and their mom for warmth. I try to visit at least three times a day and spend as much time as I can with them, since early contact with humans is vital. They now accept me and welcome my large intrusive hands. I just can’t believe that today’s cute games are going to someday evolve into more serious squabbles. The funniest change is the kitten’s ears. They are still folded but they’re starting to perk up.
Here’s a list of cute calico kitten names: Puddles, Pebbles, Cali or Kali or Kallie, Patches, Tortie, Speckles, Kalique . . . and I’m still working on amassing more, even though our calico kittens are already named.
Update on Farrah and her deworming coming up as soon as possible. I have an appointment with her vet today to get a new supply of Drontal Plus. I will post the information I get. I will also purchase Pill Pockets for Cats in chicken flavor, since a friend left me a comment yesterday saying her cats don’t like the salmon flavored ones.
Here are today’s kitten pictures:
All the newborn kittens
Focus on the front kittens
Focus on the kittens in the back
“Trouble” the kitten isn’t so much trouble at all
And drumroll for calico kitten pictures
Remember the calico kitten gender post? They are both girls.
Puddles, the largest of the calico twins
Puddles again, being adorable
And Pebbles, the muted calico kitten
The Crazy Cat Lady
SO CUTE! It is so funny how the calico’s are getting more muted as they get older, especially Pebbles, but even Puddles looks a bit more muted than before. It is so funny to watch them at this age because they chance so much and they can be so silly!
And I hope the pill pockets work. I was lucky because our worming meds have been either liquid or for a kitten, who apparently didn’t mind the pill flavor. We just finished with the newbies and actually will need a recheck plus a check of the 4 big ones on Saturday (fingers crossed no worm no worms no worms – you have to say it three times for it to work).
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I never use pill pockets. My cat is too smart for those and will eat everything but the pill. I have to physically restrain her, or preferably, have someone else restrain her while I drop the pill into her mouth, and then some water. I always have water on hand because it activates her swallowing reflex. An eye dropper or syringe works best but you can also just put some water on your fingers and drip it into the cat’s mouth.