wow.. I never got to sleep at all this morning! *yawns*....up, rest, up, rest, up every one or other hour .. I don't like naps but I now understand why I had one last night.
oh YES...absolutely. this is why it was hard to feed the boy - everytime he bawls his lungs out (way much more than the girl), zephyra runs up, frantically pawing and trying to scruff-rescue it from my hands...has zephyra shown any signs of wanting to mother and cuddle them?there was at one point where I'd let her take him because I wanted to see where she'd put it.. she ran back upstairs (to my room where she came through the attic) and running around to and from every corner to other in a loop thrice, didn't really know where to put him down
then onto my bed! layers of quilts, right by the pillow and flopped down, started licking, cuddling trying to nurse...I feel so bad. so I had to bottle-feed them IN bathroom! and finish.. poor my girl.
zephyra and two other cats sticked by the door all night...aww. she won't and didn't sleep with me last night as usual, I miss her! but now they're right next to me, I've found a bigger box so they all could cuddle in! and purring up a storm. better than the ziplocks, right?
nope, not at all and in fact, they have two mommies, one uncle and an aunt.there's no way they could be zephyra's kittens, could they?
moosmom, there's no electricity up here so I've had ziplocks re-filled with warm water every 3 - 4 hours as keeping them warm is critical. we don't want any FKS. (fatal kitten sydrome - undeveloped organs from coldness). there's also a fuzzy stuffed animal in the box when needed, a fuzzy froggy (only one I have that has leggies!) crayola's willing to share.
ok, more details on them - I assume they are about 7-9 days old as they're THIS small.. eyes and ears still closed, no teeth yet. the girl's bellybutton is still harden and the boy had a little umbilical cord left.
the girl LOVES to eat...seems to be a bit bigger than her brother and they both've been suckling well and grunted their littlest logs out.(stimulated with warm moisty cottonballs). I can't get over how little their (plastic) claws are .. I am used to clip 188 large crunchy claws biweekly!
anyway, while you wait for pictures, I'll try my best describing them.. sorry.
the girl .... totally all smoky black. she was infected with fleas.
the boy .... overall black, has a white river starting from his forehead? muzzle? all way down to tummy, has white paws in front but white legs in back. oh! he also has a little spockle on his right nose. no patterns.
oh yeah and, the girl has black paws, the boy has white (pinky) paws.
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