I've avoided using their shelter names because I don't like them, but I'd better from now on. So....

The kittens are ten weeks old and their mom is a feral. They were taken from her at about 8 weeks and the foster coordinator worked with them for a while, then they came to me.

The peeing on the sofa is, I believe, because Elliot has a UTI. He's at the vet today being tested and treated.

I think the pooping on the sofa was my fault, in part. I moved Felix and Ashley from their smaller bedroom to a larger one when it looked like Ashley, who may have C.H., had learned to use newspaper for her litter box functions. (No matter how low I made a box lid for her to use, or even poured litter on a plastic sheet on the floor, her instability made her prefer the carpet.) Anyway, I didn't take Felix into the bathroom to show him where the litter boxes were and he hadn't investigated that far himself, and so he used a blanket. The second poop was done by Ashley. I put down more sheets of plastic and newspaper around the room and taped a strip of carpet onto the linoleum by the door of the bathroom so she has traction there and she hasn't used the carpet since.

Ashley nearly had me in tears last night because she was trying to get up the climber and sit in the open (screened) window with her brothers. She managed to get about a third of the way up before falling on her back - fortunately her special bed was where she landed. She's having a wonderful time in the larger room, racing round and round and trying to jump on her brothers. I think she is stronger now because I've been feeding her kitten food that she can manage. The Iams kitten food that came with her was too large for her and she spent most of the time at the food bowl picking up pieces and dropping them again. As you can see from the photo, Ashley is much smaller than her brother.