Oy vey, just once I'd like to come home from a hard day at the office and just be able to relax. Not so likely with a house full of cats, which I guess is at least partially my fault, so maybe I can't complain. But we're into the trying times of kitten rearing, they're all eating solid food and lots of it, and that means: kitten poop!
We just realized they've been pooping under our bed, so I've been relocating said poop to their litterbox in the hopes they'll make the connection. The ginger cat with the little face knows how to use it, and has been observed twice now properly disposing in the box. Meanwhile, the other kittens are pooping all over the place. I caught the other ginger cat trying to make under the bed, so I placed him in the box. But he didn't get it. So I'm cleaning up when the black kitten starts up under the night stand. Again, placing her in the box didn't seem to get the message through. I guess this is what happens, but it irks me, since one of the kittens knows where to go already. I'm sure they see him in there, where's that aha! moment?
Anyway, I still managed to get some new photos of the now 5.5 week old kittens in between these mildly disgusting episodes. These pix start here. They're getting big, I didn't even realize, they're twice the size they were just a couple of weeks back, and more or less acting like full-grown cats. I haven't seen them nurse for the past couple of days, I thought there would be a longer weaning period but I guess like all modern kids they're in a hurry to grow up. Next thing you know, they'll be wearing high-heels and smoking cigars.
Can you tell if Lucy's milk is drying up yet? I felt so bad when that happened to Stumpy - she had a few days there where it was like she had a sheet of drywall inside her belly. She was miserable. :(
oh jeez, i didn't know it was like that! she's fulla milk right now, i hope somebody nurses on her soon, but i guess there's no getting around it when it happens. how long was it between farming out the kittens to getting StumpyJune fixed? i wanna get Lucy spayed as soon as possible afterwards.
Her milk started drying up a couple of days after the kittens were adopted out. Our friend at BARC told us that it would take about a week for it to dry up entirely, and to keep a close eye on her for any oozing or inflammation. Cats can sometimes get mastitis which requires treatment with antibiotics. Luckily that didn't happen here... and I think it was a month or so before we could get her spayed? I know that once the babies are eating on their own, though, you can go ahead and take care of mama - so you can probably get Lucy in any time now.
Can you tell if Lucy's milk is drying up yet? I felt so bad when that happened to Stumpy - she had a few days there where it was like she had a sheet of drywall inside her belly. She was miserable. :(