Here are some photos from Queen of America’s kittens she started fostering this past Sunday.
In case you missed QoA’s missive from yesterday, here it is repeated below:
“On Sunday, I went to see the 10 kittens Dr Susan has (the mama and babies Robyn had asked me about fostering). She had a person lined up to take her (before the babies were born) but on Saturday, 5 babies came. She was still going to take them until 5 more showed up. That’s a lot for a first-time foster mom so I totally understand her hesitation. Anyway, Dr S ran over and got them all. She called me to ask if I had 10 colors of yarn to distinguish them. I didn’t have any since I don’t knit or crochet. Then she asked if I had nail polish. YES! That I have. I picked 13 colors of regular polish and took them over to Dr Susan. We made a chart, weighed each baby and painted a few tiny toes. There are 5 black kittens and 5 solid grey ones. Five were 0.20 kilo and five were 0.26 kilo.” (BBC comment: For those not too familiar with metric weights, it works out to between 7.05 oz to 9.17 oz, about half of a small bottle of water).
The chart:
https://i.imgur.com/ShSJIVM.jpg
One of the wee ones (barely half-a-handful):
https://i.imgur.com/TvQen5l.jpg
Wee one on the scale (280 grams before the scale settled, and, oh, so small…):
https://i.imgur.com/t86O9El.jpg
Momma and the babies (they’re all there somewhere, chowing down…):
https://i.imgur.com/riYyr6c.jpg
Late development from QoA, with some sad news… One of the larger “grey’s” died, neither she nor Dr Susan know why.
Here are some photos from Queen of America’s kittens she started fostering this past Sunday.
In case you missed QoA’s missive from yesterday, here it is repeated below:
“On Sunday, I went to see the 10 kittens Dr Susan has (the mama and babies Robyn had asked me about fostering). She had a person lined up to take her (before the babies were born) but on Saturday, 5 babies came. She was still going to take them until 5 more showed up. That’s a lot for a first-time foster mom so I totally understand her hesitation. Anyway, Dr S ran over and got them all. She called me to ask if I had 10 colors of yarn to distinguish them. I didn’t have any since I don’t knit or crochet. Then she asked if I had nail polish. YES! That I have. I picked 13 colors of regular polish and took them over to Dr Susan. We made a chart, weighed each baby and painted a few tiny toes. There are 5 black kittens and 5 solid grey ones. Five were 0.20 kilo and five were 0.26 kilo.” (BBC comment: For those not too familiar with metric weights, it works out to between 7.05 oz to 9.17 oz, about half of a small bottle of water).
The chart:
https://i.imgur.com/ShSJIVM.jpg
One of the wee ones (barely half-a-handful):
https://i.imgur.com/TvQen5l.jpg
Wee one on the scale (280 grams before the scale settled, and, oh, so small…):
https://i.imgur.com/t86O9El.jpg
Momma and the babies (they’re all there somewhere, chowing down…):
https://i.imgur.com/riYyr6c.jpg
Late development from QoA, with some sad news… One of the larger “grey’s” died, neither she nor Dr Susan know why.