Annie is still eating, sleeping, and using the litter box just fine. She likes to get out and explore and play a little, too, when she's awake. I am worried about her left eye. I don't think she has any sight in it, and it is cloudy in appearance. I think it must have been injured in some way before we got her, not just an eye infection. It is open now almost as wide as the right eye, but it doesn't look good to me. I'm still putting the ointment in it twice a day. I have the afternoon off work tomorrow, so I'll see if I can take her to the Vet. again tomorrow afternoon to have the eye checked now that it is open more. It wasn't open very much yet when we had her there on May 5th. I'm anxious to get another weight on her, too. I think she's almost doubled in size since we first brought her home!

My son and I have been gone all day today. He found an orphaned duckling in one of our city fishing ponds yesterday, and brought it home with him yesterday evening. I found a Wildlife Rescue Team in Lincoln, and called them up to see if anyone could take the little duckling and raise it until it's old enough to release into the wild. So we ended up driving to Lincoln today to give the little duck to someone there who will keep it and take care of it for now. She said she has two other little ducklings about the same size. The one my son found is only a couple of days old. It was swimming all alone on the pond where he was fishing, crying, but none of the other duck families there would claim it. So he caught it and brought it home and kept it here overnight, and we took it to Lincoln today.

The person who is going to care for it said she will release it when it is about 12-14 weeks old. She called me this evening to let me know that our little duckling settled in fine with the two others she is caring for that are similar in size and approximate age. She has four others that are slightly older, too. My husband stayed home and took care of Sandi and Oreo, Angel, Shadow, and little Annie. I took some pictures of the little duck, so when I get this roll developed I'll post them here, too. After all, it WAS little Annie's, and Shadow's, and Angel's, Oreo's, and Sandi's foster sibling for one night! And I WAS able to let this one go on to another home, so I FINALLY passed a fostering class!

OK, so it WASN'T a kitten fostering class, it was a duckling fostering class----but it WAS a VERY cute little duck, and it WAS hard to see it go, in a lot of ways, but we knew that it would be much better off where it is now than with us. How many cats do you know who will accept a little duckling for a sibling?!?!? Or dogs?!?!?

I guess that's about all for now. I'll post more tomorrow afternoon sometime, and will have PICTURES by Tuesday evening.......