Month: October 2011

Three weeks ago Merrimack gave us four very cute tigers aged about 8 weeks old. Three are normal size for their age and one is runty at this point. Of course the runty one is very friendly and snuggles with Barbara easily. The others are comfortable being approach however the only one with a little red in its coat is just a tad standoffish.

What a change from the last litter. They were much more work and even now one, MrH, has not been adopted. Then again, he hasn’t been brought to adoption since his foster parent has deemed it in appropriate to take him in.

Snuggler, the runty one, and Page, the other female with the white nose have both had respiratory problems. We’ve given all four a multi-day course of liquid anti-biotic (?name?) and yesterday Snuggler received a shot of Penicillin. All four are on a multi-day course of (?name?).

Last night was the 4th adoption event for this pack with the remaining three kittens. We had no expectation of any adoptions since no one has expressed interest through Pet Finder.

A family of four who had recently lost their 16 year old cat were looking for a new adult as their pet. Since the Merrimack Rescue was willing to do a two for one deal with our kittens, the family walked out with Lefty and Bandita for the price of one. You could knock me down with a feather now that there is just MrH to adopt out.

Today he is friendlier than ever which is saying quite a bit. I played with him with a teaser toy and he responded very well. Still doesn’t want to be picked up but he’ll let me pet him more. He’s about 12 weeks old and we’ve seem him though the worst of it.

We went away for a week and gave MrH to a fellow foster family headed by Mark B who has 13 cats (most if not all are fosters). MrH appears to be doing well there so with agreement with Mark, he’ll remain because… we were asked to foster 4 new tiger kittens appearing now to be approximately 6 weeks old. They were trapped at two weeks and their mother nursed them for a week and gave up so they’ve been bottle fed ever since.

These are the friendlies kitties we’ve ever had and I look forward to more time with them.