Campus Kittens

As I am going to start back to school shortly I don't have a foster group at the moment but we do have kittens we trapped the other day! We caught 5 kittens total.

We caught this group with two females (the calico and the one with the black spot) and two males (the orange and white and the tuxedo). They are with one of our other foster homes and doing very well.

We also caught this beauty. As you can see her eyes are clouded over and her third eyelid is covering a good part of her eye. This seems to be because she is blind. Otherwise when trapped she seemed very healthy. She was immediately adopted by a student that had expressed a desire to help disabled animals. Quickest trap to adoption period ever!

All adopted

Tyrion was adopted by a nice lady and rode very politely in the car to meet her. He did hide under her truck seat though and we had to get him out so we could have him ride safely home with her. She reports that he is doing very well and exploring his new home and making friends with her other cats. She calls him Ty for short.

Bran and Rickon were adopted together, which is awesome. They will be companions for an elderly lady who had recently lost her inside cat due to old age. They have the run of a screened in porch and the house and are already being big snuggle bugs. She named them Moe and Jojo. 

All boys!

Now that Arya has been adopted it's an all boy group. Since it's been several weeks since I took the good camera out I decided to get some more recent pictures of the boys. Here they are in all their handsome glory!

Tyiron

Bran and Rickon

Bran

Rickon

Tyrion

Rickon

Bran

Arya has been chosen!

Arya has been adopted, but her new people are moving so she'll be with me for a little bit longer while they get settled into her new home. They've been visiting her often though, I'm very happy they were able to adopt this brave little girl! 

My oldest calico Cali has been in full foster mommy mode. It so sweet to see her with the babies. She's very patient with them but doesn't hesitate to teach them manners either. She's a great help in teaching them all the cat things they need to know that I can't teach.

She brought them her favorite toy too! Inside cat hunting lessons.

Then we have this cat bed which is apparently good for nursing on. They were weaned a bit suddenly because of the trapping so it's normal behavior and comforting for them.

Cute Overload

Everyone is doing so well, it won't be long now before they leave me and head to their forever homes. They really rank high on the cuteness factor, wow, these guys are so cute! Arya has really been investigating the cat door now, but luckily hasn't figured out how to escape into the main house. They all have also started to wear collars, just one less thing for their forever homes to have to worry about.

More cute kitten pictures

Everybody was waiting on me to get them their food this morning! Hungry littles were very vocal about it too. Rickon even made a break trying to get into the main house, silly boy that's not even where I keep the food. Still getting lots of purrs from Rickon and Arya, Arya even gave my husband a purr, though Bran hissed at him. Still they all let him pet them, even if they gave him an opinion about it afterwards.

Rickon

Arya

Bran

Rickon

Arya

Arya

Bran

Bran

Tyrion

Tyrion

Rickon

Rickon

So many good pictures today!

The kittens have come such a long way in a week. While they still have skittish moments I was able to get purrs from Rickon and Arya and I can sit out there with them with no problems and they've had other visitors and done very well, still walking around and playing and generally ignoring other humans which is part of the process. Rickon went from being the most defensive to being the first to seek out attention now, just showing that you never can tell with kittens who is going to warm up first. Tyrion is still decently skittish, and so is Bran but not so much that they swat or bite. They all also know I have the food and now let me know in no uncertain terms when they want dinner.

Since they've warmed up so much I got so many awesome pictures, I don't want to overload you so I'll share part of them now and part in a few days. Here's my favorites, though it was really hard to pick!

Pretty babies

Thanks to a Facebook survey my kittens all have names. I decided on Game of Thrones names for them since they were captured the night before this past weeks big episode. So in no particular order here they are!

Bran

Rickon

Arya

And Tyrion!

I broke with the Stark trend because well I like Tyrion as a character and he looks so different from his siblings that people are always asking if he is from the same litter. They're doing much better. I can pick them up and move them around without the leather gloves and Rickon even accepted petting and gave me a few curious sniffs today. They've been allowed to play in the cat room a good bit, which they like a whole lot better of course. They're still pretty wary though and won't play with my two calicos yet, despite Theresa really really wanting to play with them. For a week they've made really good progress.