This woman Amy called in about two female tiger kittens the other day through PetFinder? and Debbie told her that we have cute male and female set. She seemed interested so at the adoption event last night, Amy showed up with her daughter and snapped the two of them up. We’ve gotten an email saying that they are both doing fine. Snuggler is now Lollipop and Marcus is still Marcus.

All I can do now is hope they have a good life.

And, Paige’s adopter sent a beautiful set of photos of Paige happy as can be, so nice of them to do that. Yeah Paige or Daisy.

It’s Sunday and Paige got adopted today at the Petco adoption event. A mother and her older daughter who have an 8yr old cat at home. They were in the store and didn’t intend to adopt a kitten. They emailed a photo to her husband and he said yes, so off she went.

Meanwhile Snuggler and Marcus are still not very friendly when approached at these events. We have to continue to work with them to get them more accustomed to being held on-demand. When they want it’s no problem but when people want to hold them it’s another story and the plot’s bad and ending is worse.

Last night was the second adoption event for any of the four tigers and Milo got adopted, he’s be a little unwell but the woman adopter came specifically to adopt him. We told our sponsor at Merrimack Animal Rescue about him being sick and the adopter still was told, so off he goes. Barbara made it a point to explain the one month insurance benefit that the rescue organization affords adopters and I can only hope she uses it. Milo is a nice kitten, good looking and playful when he’s well. Even during this oncoming sickness he still played when he could.

We’ve been told the clues to real problems are when the animal stops eating and drinking. Milo has hung back when the other kittens are eating only to go and eat after they’ve pretty much finished. I sense he doesn’t want to be jostled and he hung back to accommodate him feeling unwell.

Snuggler, Paige and Marcus are all well. A little girl was holding onto Paige yesterday for dear life but her mother could not be persuaded to adopt lovely little Paige. Oh, Paige is the piggiest of the four tigers weighing in over three pounds. Still, a beautiful kitten.

Update on MrH – Mark brought him in yesterday to adoptions and he has grown as expected. He’s now a real armful, beautiful but still just tucks himself away in the cage as if trying to hide. I held him for a while and he didn’t seem to mind. In the cage wass MrH’s friend Billy Bob a somewhat larger black kitten. The two of them seem to get along just fine. Here’s hoping that MrH gets adopted soon too.

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.

On Sunday Barbara took Left, MrH and Bandita to the adoption event at Petco and after 4 or so hours while people looked and ultimately adopted two adult cats and two kittens our three did not fair well. MrH was curled up in a ball the whole time we suspect hoping to be ignored, Lefty was engaging but Bandita was just uncomfortable. She hissed and carried on so that Barbara had to take her out of the cage and put her in the carrier.

Is it that MrH and Bandita are still not domestic or are they very smart?

On another note MrH has been very friendly with Barbara to the point that she pets him and he responds just like we hoped he would. Barbara has made comments like “Look” and “it’s amazing” pointing to him as she pets him with wild abandon. He’s coming up to her on the couch and while she stands in the kitchen he nuzzles against her leg. What a change!

So the young woman who asked about Cali showed up at this, the 2nd adoption event since we’ve had this pack, and adopted her. She has another cat whom she adopted from a Rhode Island shelter but Barbara suspects this cat is going back due to being unfriendly. Friendly-ness is in the eye of the beholder but what are we going to do, she thinks the cat is unfriendly and that’s all there is to it.

That means Cali is going to be alone when the woman is gone. A home is a home but being home alone is not that same as having company.