a few new pictures have been uploaded to to the kitten directory. Including a number of photos of Kodi toward the end. He looks very good, except you can clearly see the problems he had with his eyes.

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 3:20 PM ~

Stolen from the Readers Digest.

Meow If You Hate Smoke
Smokers and nonsmokers alike have had their consciousness raised about the effects of second hand smoke on humans. But, until now, no one had considered the kitty. A recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that cats living with a smoker are twice as likely to develop lymphoma, the most common cancer in cats, as those in smoke-free homes. Felines living with two smokers face four times the risk. Cats may be particularly affected by household smoke (including fireplace smoke) because they spend so much time indoors, and because, when grooming, the ingest particles that have fallen on their fur. Aside from quitting, smokers can minimize risk to their cats by keeping them out of rooms where people light up. Brushing or bathing the cats may also help
~Judy Dutton

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:02 AM ~

Hubby let jack out of confinement.. he figured it was close enough, and he saw how much his howling was hurting me. :) he's running around exploring everything, with periodical stops to walk over me.. *giggle* Em is currently sitting on my leg, Muffin and Eli are hanging out, and ollie is being a general PITA.. I just want to grab jack and hug him.. but he's wired.. and he smells a bit like the musty room he was in..

*throws confetti around*

JACK ATTACK!

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 11:41 PM ~

I had some treats downstairs with jack last night. Decided to leave the package down there with him.
Bad move.

I brought down some wet food for him.. he was torn between eating it and getting some attention from me. He was running back and forth. the static down in that room is horrid. Im surprised im not eletricuting the poor thing...

who btw is down there howling at me..
*wimper*

Muffin was nice and clingy this morning. It was so cute. I put her up on the bathroom counter while I did my morning stuff. two girls hanging out in the bathroom. she got bored quickly though and left, but a moment later wanted to come back and tried to jump up on the counter and couldn't make it.

right now she's running around with her leg through her collar.. MUFFIN! come here let me fix that for you.. Silly kitty.. collars aren't for legs..

We went and got everyone their own tooth brush tonight. dental care starts tomorrow.. you can just feel the anticipation in the air.. NOT. this is not going to be fun... but it is necessary. Em has some pretty bad tarter built up.. and if your going to do one, you might as well do them all. I'll let you know how it goes.

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 10:01 PM ~

arrrgh.. this is the third time I have to type out this stupid post..
the first time blogger went down, the second time for some reason IE crashed when I went to spell check the stupid post.. grrrrr.

anyway..

Jack has now been confined for two days. He's breaking my heart sitting down there and crying and howling to get attention. The vet recommends he stay down there for a week while everyone else builds up their antibodies. I don't know if I can last that long. Every time I go down there he's dying for attention. totally hurts to leave.

Was able to get into the Mann clinic yesterday. Everyone is now protected. they will get their booster when they go back for their retest in five weeks. Do you have any idea how hard it is to transport four kitties to the vet? almost as painful as it was to transport five.. lol. Ive decided Im never going back to my old vet, in fact Im going to write a nice little letter to the state vet association letting them know what happened. Technically I believe they are responsible for jack becoming positive for leukemia. I told them I was fostering kitties for the shelter. I assumed that he had been vaccinated for it. I suppose I should have been a bit more cautious in it, but they should have at least mentioned it.. which they didn't.

Muffin got herself locked out on the sun porch a little while ago. I heard her scraping at the door so I let her in. She followed me back to the chair and crawled up into my lap and got all purry and cuddly. She really is a very cute kitty. Not only in appearance, but also in attitude. Granted, she's got a stubborn streak a mile and a half wide.. but she just raises the bar for cuteness to almost unobtainable levels. and I can say this even after having fostered 100 kittens in the past year. I should thank linda for "convincing" me to keep her.

She just got up and ran away with my bottle cap. She loves those things.

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 12:38 PM ~

apparently none of my kitties have been vaccinated against leukemia. The vet said we refused it because they don't go outside. Now.. this MIGHT be true for Ollie, but neither my hubby or I remember being asked for either jack or the three pack we most recently adopted. The vet can't get them in till wednesday. They also recommened we isolate jack. which we did, and it is TOTALLY breaking my heart. Im so incredibly pissed off at them that we are going to call the mann clinic in the morning and see if they can get us in any earlier.

I can't imagine I would turn down such a vaccination knowing that I am fostering kittens.

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 8:01 PM ~

just went in the kitten room to look for a clipper for the kitties claws (I swear I own 6 of those things, and can never find one when I need one.. they must hide them)

I broke down in tears.

I miss him so much..

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 8:41 PM ~

its been pretty subdued here. there have been the chases and the fights, but it all seems to be slightly more mellow. Maybe Im just reading it that way..

There were a few highlights..

Muffin was cuddling with me, and washing her foot when there was a noise in the house. She immediatly stopped to pay more attention to the noise. This left her little pink tongue hanging out .. quite far.. she looked like gene simons from kiss. Muffin has also learned to play fetch. yup. she runs after it, and then brings it back. there are usually a few pit stops along the way, but in the end the little pom pom ball I found in a craft section finds its way back to me. It was soooo cute.. till Eli got in the way and took the ball and ran off with it.. No idea where it went last night, but poof.. its back today. Also, I was sitting cross legged on the recliner (which is leather) cuddling eli.. Eli ran away, and I dropped one of my legs back toward the floor. It swiped the leather making a weird noise. Muffin who was sitting by the base of the chair heard the noise and it freaked her out so much she sprang upright, and jumped back. I didn't even see her move.. it was like some force picked her up and moved her about three feet away.

Eli was playing with the doorway toy the other day. its a fur mouse hanging by an elastic type rope attached to the door frame. he'd grab it, and bring it to the floor. it would bounce out of his grasp, and he would jump up after it. for a while he looked and acted like a mexican jumping bean.

Jack has been acting jealous of Muffin. She is so in his face.. no matter what he's doing, she's there as if to say "anything you can do I can do better".. so if he's looking for some attention she's right there purring and looking cute. He usually just walks away.. giving up. Ive had to make a point of spending time with him. I hope its just jealousy and not a prelude to depression and lethargy which are two warning signs of FIP and FIV.

posted by ~*Connie*~ at 12:33 PM ~