Quintcy is on antibiotics and will be spending the weekend at the vet's under supervision. He should be OK, they're just making sure. Poor little dude!
Quagmire and the girls are doing OK, although Quagmire is lonely because we have to keep him separated from the possibly still too sucky QD, and we want to keep [...]
Poor Quintcy was at the vet overnight. He may have a bladder infection, I'll know more this morning sometime, I hope.
Quagmire is eating well. We gave him a bath today and dried him off really well. He wasn’t that thrilled with the process, but now he looks and smells a lot better. It is important to keep kittens clean so that they keep themselves clean later, especially when there’s no mom to show them.
Quintcy, on [...]
Quagmire is eating well and gained weight today, so yay!
Of course something else had to happen… we discovered that QD is harassing Quintcy’s private parts. She blindly roots around for something to suck on, and what do you know. The poor boy was rather raw looking, so we put some special aloe/comfrey gel [...]
This morning everyone was eating very well. We are now on Nutrience canned kitten food, partly because the babies seem to like it best, but mostly because it may help the babies' poo get firmer. My personal theory, which may have more anecdata added to it in the next day or so, is that byproducts [...]
In all the excitement and worry about Quagmire, poor little QD (Cutie) has been patiently waiting for her introduction!
QD is a calico, but instead of dark and orange patches she has brown tabby and orange tabby patches! Isn't that cool?
QD has also had problems gaining weight, but she is eating and gaining. She [...]
Here's baby Quagmire! The vets at the Small Animal Clinic at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine were able to get an IV into a bone in his back leg, and he has perked up amazingly! He has been eating soft food quite happily. I was so thrilled to see him, and he [...]
Little Quagmire is in the hands of the vet, and they have managed to put an IV into him. He is eating some soft food, which is great news. He had a couple of tests for feline distemper, which is what a lot of sick kittens suffer from, but they were negative so [...]
I’ve been a bit behind in introducing the last two members of Team Q because the other little boy, Quagmire, has not been doing that well. We have switched all the kittens to a special canned food that is especially easy on their tummies. As of tonight Quagmire has lost a bit of [...]
This morning the kittens seemed to be mewing louder than normal. Sure enough, we get down there and there’s a real mess. One of them must have discovered that dry kibble is food, and they ate until they threw up. These things happen when you’re little, but it happened and then everyone [...]