Well all of Buttons are okay, now, and Bitsy [Skeezic's abandoned one] is doing well with Buttons for a Mom. Her little three colored baby is small and was not thriving, and I've been giving her antibiotics, and she seems to be beginning to do better. I got some KMR and have been offering the kittens some. Buttons was getting sick and was not milking well for about a week and after antibiotics for her she is now doing well too. I'm giving her the KMR that the kittens don't drink, twice a day and she is improving and being a good mom. Her two boys are getting big. The yellow one is probably going to be long haired, too.
Three days ago, late at night, when I got home from work, a single little grey kitten was crying just outside of my shed and where it was at, was near a big fire ant mound, so I brought it in and looked at it and its eyes were all infected, so I cleaned him up and offered it some kmr and it seemed to be full so I put it back out in my shed in hopes the mother, who I presumed was Sheba, would find it and hide it again. Next AM, it was cold and stuck in some wire, no mom, so here I go again, brought it in and warmed it up and tried to feed it and cleaned it up, and put it back in the shed in the hay, where the Mom, would hopefully take it back. It still seemed to have been nursing, because it wasn't starving, but didn't really want to eat, or poop, and cried a lot. Long story short, I put it back out last night, and it was almost dead this AM. It was so cold because it had finally peed and gotten itself wet just under the edge of the tarp and was so cold that it could not even cry. I thought he was a goner, but I guess he has nine lives, because I finally got him thawed out by bathing him in warm water, and then blow dried him and tried to feed him, but he was not trying to eat, and I was afraid I would get milk in his lungs. I heated a cold pack in the microwave, and put him in a box with a towel over him in the window in the sun. He is now eating and did poop and this morning I started him on antibiotic, and I hope it works. Like I need another cat! I think I'm missing one of my black sisters outside, and that maybe why this kitten was starving and abandoned. I know Sheba is still here, but I think she would have taken this kitten if it was hers. I didn't know that one of them had had one, tho.
I'll have to take him with me to church, because I'll have to be there all day, and maybe I can give him away. He is going to be long haired, like Andy. A brown Tabby with a beautiful face.
I don't want to be another ones Mama!!!!!
I'm still battling fleas and I hope I can get them whipped. It's tough! Grrrr.
Friday, November 6, 2009
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