My first day went well! I got a tour of the shelter, and I saw the room with all the adoptable kitties, I went through the kennels where all the adoptable dogs were, then they took me through another door where the young and/or sick kitties were. They were so precious! There was a lovely flame point siamese momma cat that was acting as surrogate mom to 5 kittens that weren't even hers. 3 of them were doing well, but 2 of them were not. One of them was so tiny. It had to have been only about 3 inches long! OMG! I tried to get that one to eat with a dropper. I sure hope that little one makes it...
There was also a litter of feral kittens that I started working with. They are about 6 weeks old, so I thought if I got them out for a few minutes each day, they will come around. There were 3 of them in a cage together. 2 of them did pretty well. They hissed, but that was about it. Once I got them out and held them, they seemed ok, but the 3rd one really did a number on my arm and leg! He will need a little more work I think.

I also got to medicate a few of the sick little ones. Several had drippy eyes, so I got to put ointment in their drippy eyes. Some of the others I had to give antibiotics.
I took out each kitten and wiped them down and played a little bit with each one.
After that, I went into the puppy area and took 4 puppies out into one of the back yards to play for awhile, so I got a dose of puppy breath too!! It was such a great day! I felt so good when I left. I'm planning on going for a few hours each day!! Gosh, I can already tell it's going to be hard for me to resist bringing some of them home with me!

**hugs**