Barb's Cats and Quilts

[...] spoken for. Then, Sunday, one of John's patients brought over a stray cat they found a couple weeks ago.  It was very friendly and got along with her dog and other cat and slept with her [...]

[...] . I am so fed up with Blogger!!!  They did a "new and improved" version a couple weeks ago.  Since then, I can't always put text next to the photo.  It's under the picture [...]

[...] Foster mom, Jen, took in a pregnant cat from a shelter a couple weeks ago.  An x-ray showed possibly eight kittens, probably within two or three days.  She looked [...]

[...] This little 9- to 10-week-old boy is Simba, and he'll be my new foster kitten in a couple weeks, after his second surgery.  We think he was hit by a car.  He had two broken legs when he was [...]

[...] , she started labor last Sunday night.  Five kittens were born between 12:30 and 3:00 am Monday morning.  I was with her every minute and managed to physically put her in the box many times.  [...]

[...] - thick and half cooked. No dry, cakey brownies for me.  I took half the pan to the vet techs Monday morning when I took little Crystal in for her spay/shot package. Monday we went to Lowe's for a [...]

[...] a message on our regular vet's phone on Sunday afternoon that I'd be bringing him in Monday morning.  I took his food away at midnight hoping they could squeeze him in and do the surgery [...]

[...] the bed. Instead of the normal cardboard box I used for the birthing box, I tried putting the heating pad and towel in a plastic tub, then covering part of it with a quilt to keep some heat in.  She [...]

[...] surgery three days before, Barb drove and took us back to my house from the clinic.  I put a heating pad under a towel in a small crate.  Simba was dehydrated and very hungry.  He ate half a can of [...]

[...] , two girls and one boy, Abby, Ziva, and Gibbs (NCIS).  Abby is the calico in back, Gibbs is the gray tabby in front, and Ziva is the tortie on the right. Jane and Hetty. Abby being her cute adorable [...]

[...] 2 weeks old. These are of the kittens about 5 days later at 3 weeks old.  Three girls - a gray tabby, a black & white without a blaze, and a calico that looks just like mom.  Two boys [...]

[...] who didn't have their eyes open yet, I couldn't say no - especially when she told me mom was a gray tabby and the babies were white. Well, according to my cat ID book, mom is a silver classic tabby ( [...]

[...] is all 10 kittens, but it's hard to tell the individuals.  All are black, white and gray. The vet techs shaved Hope's tummy when she had her x-ray.  It helps the babies find the nipples easier. Jen [...]

[...] just had kittens three days earlier, so I took her.  Crystal is named after one of the vet techs at Pet Docs in O'Fallon.  Sasha accepted Crystal immediately and treats her like her own.  [...]

This is an exerpt from an email I sent another foster  mom when I got home from the vets on Tuesday afternoon.  I saw no reason to retype everything [...]

[...] don't all eat at the same time, anyway. Last week I agreed to take a mom and her three newborn kittens from the Warrenton Animal Control.  I've taken quite a few of their animals and they' [...]

[...] couple, so Ben was the only one in the office.  I moved him to my room, and the Warrenton mom, Brenna, went into the nursery.  There will be a test later. Mom is showing the kittens [...]

[...] More mushrooms today, but of the edible variety, this time.  I was hungry for sauted mushrooms ever since I found the giant ones growing in our yard last week.  And, yes, they were [...]