Shedding Tears

First about the trio. All three of them now have watery eyes, Chase' look the worst, red rims and his white hair just looks awful when wet. Wilson and Kutner are sneezing, I've yet to hear anything from Chase but then Wilson just started so he'll probably get it too. I've got to bring them in to get looked at, I'm thinking URTI. Their adoptive momma, Reyna now also has one watery eye that as green gunk coming out, great. So to the vet they go, possibly tonight I'm not sure. otherwise they have been great, Chase is by far the biggest now, Kutner looks big but its all floof, though he's not badly sized and then there is Wilson. The poor bugger is skin and bones, I don't think Chase is letting him near the food, and now that Kutner isn't so tiny and weak anymore he's now become Chase's sidekick. So I'll have to step in about that, though he's not acting tired or sick. Hard keeper? They'll get their first shots soon, but they are up for adoption now, just not ready to leave so if anyone is interested in them drop me a line.

Cought two more small kittens, one was covered in burrs and had to be shaved as she was longhair and the other was a cute little tortie about the size of the trio. We've called them Patience and Posey. I'll add some pictures of Patience but didn't get any of Posey, sorry. I'll get some today. As well as an older kitten who gave me a good aprting gift and once again my hand is wrapped up.

Patience after just coming in. She had burrs stuck to her everywhere, can't seem them very well in the picture as they were so far into her hair they were covered up and into her skin so badly we thought we were going to have to do surgery.

Stuck between her hind legs. This was a bad one to get out, several layers of burrs, feathers, and other objects plus all that hair matted into a ball and into her skin. There were several others spots too that were bad but this was the worst.

Patience after her haircut and a bath. She was such a good girl through it all, a few complaints and some squirming but nothing horrible. She's an angel even with her haircut.

The kitten adopt-a-thon was a great success! Might do another this weekend.

More watery eyes, but this time they belong to us. Two of the cats we trapped have died this week during their spays. One looked very similar to Chase, and we assume she was their mama. We though she had had a litter as she had a belly for the first few weeks and then she didn't. Turns out she hadn't had a litter recently, it was all fluid in her organs. She died during surgery. The other was an older kitten, tabby with white that we were putting back outside as she was too feral. The same one who ripped my hand open a few weeks back. They aren't sure what went wrong, she was fine during surgery but when they put her back in her compartment to wake up she died. They think it was a heart attack. I feel awful for the poor creatures, but in a way I'm happy for them, those two won't have to endure the winter, won't have to deal with disease or the every day hardships of a feral cat in the city. But then I feel like I've killed them, stolen their lives.