The Brooklyn bottle babies: Riles and Cecilia

"They're both growing up nicely and have adjusted well to their new home. They have seemingly boundless energy and have become quite adept at jumping onto legs, laps, tables, etc..."

Isabella (aka Columbiana) and Gordi

Angie, The girlies are doing well. They just got spayed on tuesday, so they're still recovering. Other than that they're healthy and happy. Isabella (aka columbiana)is big and tough, and gordi is super affectionate and spastically hyperactive. I'll send you a picture, although they're much cuter in real life. Thanks, christine

Sleep deprived

Carol and John Henry require a lot of love, and playing! Also, both Mary and I are somewhat sleep deprived because John Henry requires a lot of love at 4 am each morning when he pads back and forth between as we try to sleep. We actually look forward to that every night though! Mary and I are absolutely besotted with them both. They're just the greatest little cats - and getting quite a bit bigger. Carol has the shoulders of a linebacker now; John Henry is smaller but can really push her around in their morning play-fights (that start at about 6 am). The apartment is a mess of cardboard boxes stacked into towers, with holes cut into them, and every kind of toy, scraps of slightly chewed wheatgrass, and their favorite blankets.

....and BIGGER (Bunk & McNulty)

These guys are getting big!‏ (Bunk & McNulty)

They're also supervising my work now, apparently.

Rachel.

New family cats!

Here they are!!! Emillio and Ashley!!! They arrived on Sunday night. Ashley just permitted me to pat her for the first time this morning! She's still a hidey-cat, but she's starting to get her courage up. As you can see, she meows for attention -- but then she runs away when I reach out to her -- but not all the time anymore. Emillio loves being pat, but only since a couple of days ago. He follows me around constantly -- and she does too, but from a distance, at least sometimes. They are still adjusting to their new home. They are only 10 months old. Teenagers. Lovely soft sweet kitties. Half siamese apparently and half tabby -- gorgeous striped racoon tails. Both have 4 white paws. Now that she has appeared enough to see (ahem) I can tell that she has 4 white legs. He has two white rear legs. She has a pink nose and he has a brown spot on his nose. They both have soft white bellies and golden brown furry spots in between the tabby stripes and the white areas. Lovely lovely. I hope you all get to meet them soon. They lived in Cat Rescue homes before -- apartments with about 15 cats together, so they are just learning what it means to be truly In Charge. They still don't really know... We should have lots of fun... Come visit! This was my first chance to get pictures!

The big neuter... (special needs little big Nicholas)

Dear D'Arcy,

Little Nicholas pulled through his big neuter swimmingly! The vet loved him - she did a bunch of little neuro tests on him during his pre-surgery check-up - she thinks he may have a very mild case of cerebellar hypoplasia (I think he may just be "floppy"), but thinks he is otherwise perfect! And here is how he responded to the post-op restrictions:

What the vet says: no food or drink for a couple of hours after we get home, no baths for 10 days, no running, jumping, or rough-housing for 10 days

What Nicholas does as soon as we get home: runs to Kisa and bumps up all over her, goes out of his mind crazy looking for food (including dragging his placemat across the kitchen and burying his head in a tupperware container), scarfs down the food that I feed him ("illegally") to avoid him getting hurt, and then procedes to run across the kitchen at full speed, fly up onto the counter, attempt to leap up on top of the refridgerator, misses and falls into the sink with all of the soapy dishes, leaps out of the sink and flies through the air, crashing into one of the chairs...boy oh boy!!!! But he's still alive and going strong and it's post-op day 7 - so far so good!

I have started locking him up in the bedroom while I prepare his meals so that he isn't leaping and jumping everywhere - he sits by the door and paws underneath it and cries and cries. Then when I open it he prances out and when he turns the corner near the refridgerator to head towards his food bowl he kicks up it into high gear with his little feet slipping all over the place as he charges towards his food. I've also started locking Kisa up in the second bedroom when I feed her to give her a good half hour to enjoy her food before letting Nicholas have free range.

Huge milestone tonight though - Nicholas is finally full! My sister and I were both not going to be home until late tonight, but I managed to sneak home after work to feed the kitties. When my sister got home she fed them too, and Nicholas only picked at the food! Ah, finally!!! She thought something was wrong with him and got worried, but he is finally satisfied.

Come visit soon! - Wait until you see him - he is getting so big and starting to act like a big kitty! What a mush!!!
Nancy

Bunk & McNulty

Darwin (I call him Bunk) couldn't be happier -- he's a scrappy little guy for a runt! Energy like I've never seen. Josh (I call him McNulty) is starting to come around. He's very playful and comfortable in the apartment now, hiding less, coming closer and closer to me at intervals -- still testing his boundaries but definitely making a little bit of progress each day.So far so good!