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Kitten update: now with a video

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Jun 302014

We’re still isolating them upstairs but everything is going pretty well. The kids and the kittens are getting along well, no major issues. I plan to clip their nails here soon before they actually damage anything.

We now return to our daily kitten update

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Jun 292014

Calcifer and Howl

Things are going pretty well with the kittens. We do seem to have a piddle problem that we’re trying to nip in the bud with Howl. For some reason he seems to think air vents are a great place to relieve himself. We’ve blocked off one of them and moved the litter box over to the second one. We had originally tried moving the food over to the second but apparently that wasn’t a sufficient enough deterrent. The weird thing is that it isn’t an issue in the bathroom when we put them in there for the night. Who knows really.

That aside socially things with the cats are going well. They’re coming out and staying out around all of us, playing with the kids and most of the other cats could really just care less about them. Even Nibbler is making some progress. Looking forward to when they are a little more comfortable and we can clip their front nails before they destroy anything expensive!

kittens day 2.5

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Jun 272014

So when we went up stairs to go to bed we found this waiting for us:
kittens out and about

I have to say the progress so far is pretty good considering it’s barely been more than a day. We also got a chance to introduce them to Gizmo and Moxie and to our surprise they couldn’t have really given less of a shit at all. Bailey is also super excited about them and just wants to play (ie most likely squish by accident) with them. We’re thinking of letting them out into the rest of the 2nd floor but we’ve got to be careful about spots where previous animals might have “marked” since the kittens don’t really know better quite yet.

Kitten update day 2

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Jun 262014

kittens
Howl on the left, Calcifer on the right (half manx)

Even though they’ve only been here less than 24 hours things are heading in the right direction. We isolated them to our master bathroom last night since we want to slowly introduce them to our other animals but brought them back out (to the master bedroom) this morning. They are warming up to us and our three very loud children and the children have been good about being gentle with them. The best thing is they are finally starting to eat food so that’s a big relief.

Two more cats? Yes we’re probably crazy. They came from a pregnant stray a friend rescued so before they got put into the foster system and possibly split up I thought maybe this would be a good change to give our kids a chance to learn how to care for younger animals and at least keep some of them together (hence the two). We will see what happens.