Happy Spring, Kitten Lovers!
With spring fully underway, it’s a great time to check on the progress of Tabby’s Place’s sweetest and most vulnerable members. There is some uplifting as well as sad news related to our kitten population.
You may remember a bit about Triceratops from last month. This sweet nugget was recovering from a wound on her leg and was responding well to treatment. She did a great job wrapping her staff foster mother’s heartstrings around her little paw because, after her spaying, Triceratops will be adopted by her. Apparently, the toils of healing did not diminish her adorability quotient one iota.
Luvs, the lovable tailless and incontinent girl with spina bifida, continues to be on a course of antibiotics to help her fully recover from the urinary tract infection. This is all too common when a cat is incontinent. She balances out her medical woes by being playful, vocal, and delightful.
Two of our other young ladies, Pickles and Bonifacia, are moving into the Community Room as a kind of halfway house to help them with socialization. Pickles is getting more comfortable with humans gradually and has befriended a fellow feline, Walker. They have become constant playmates and really seem to enjoy each other’s company. Bonifacia just returned from foster care and was spayed. We hope that Pickles and Walker will let her into their circle of friendship.
With the arrival of spring came the first orphaned babies of the season this month. Let’s start with Spork, who was brought into Tabby’s Place when he was a week old. He has been placed in a foster home and happily is doing very well.
The very first batch of kittens was a litter of five who were all named after cereal. They, too, were only a few days old when they arrived after being abandoned and needed to be bottle-fed. They went into foster care with two staff members and the initial news was good because they all took to the bottle right away.
Sadly, two of these wee ones (Cheerio and Captain Crunch) passed away within two days. The three others, Weetabix, Krispie, and Fruit Loop, are growing stronger and continuing to do well. Sometimes the smallest things take the most room in your heart.
Tabby’s Place is holding its first-ever Cherish the Kittens Fund Drive to focus specifically on the kittens: emergency and specialty medical care, life-saving nourishment, training for foster families, and the creation of an on-site kitten nursery, with incubators for orphans and specialized housing for nursing moms. Often the littlest and loneliest need so much of our intense care and love.
You already hold these precious ones deep in your heart, and we continue to be ever grateful for your loyalty and support of the smallest members of the Tabby’s Place family. Your commitment to the mission here makes so many wonderful things possible.
With much gratitude from your correspondent,
Karen