Simply (Kitten) Sunday Afternoon...

Not a lot new around the Furrydance household, but I did take some cute pix (click on them to biggify) and silly videos yesterday, so that's reason enough for a post, right?!



The kittens are now 5 weeks old, and are purrfecting their litterbox habits (after finding wee spots on the floor a couple of times and thinking it was water from the water dish), I moved one of the 2 litterboxes to that spot and they've been using it consistently now.



They are starting to eat canned food, with Spottie being more eager than Dottie about eating on her own. But if I 'finger feed' Dottie, she doesn't spit it out, hahameow. So, I have found one kitten poop in the litterbox so far and will take the next one in for testing this week. They are healthy--no eye or tummy issues, yay! Though food transition time can always be stressful in a way for them, I am happy to report they are doing great so far.



They now get time out in my bedroom 2-3 times a day (under supervision) and quickly learned when the bathroom door opens that playtime begins in the 'rumpus room'. They all love the new toys I got at the cat show last week, including Coco and there is lots of prey and pounce going on, as you can tell from these photos and movies...






I am on babywatch this weekend with Kiki, and so far, no sign of imminent labor. So I don't have to wake up every 2 hours during the night to check on her in the birthing tent in my bedroom, I have been sleeping with her and shutting the other cats out of the bedroom so it's just her and me in case she goes into labor. I still wake up and feel her abdomen and check her vulva for any discharge, but I don't have to actually get out of bed, hahameow!


If she hasn't had her baby by tomorrow, then I will take her in to work with me so I can monitor her closely and hope she goes into labor during the day so I can have a restful night. I can always sleep in on the weekend if a kitty keeps me up all night delivering kittens, but have to be up at 4:30am during the week for work but at least this time, once Kiki has delivered her one baby, and it has nursed, I could go back to sleep.

I'm still working on de-cluttering the basement, and next task today is cleaning out 2 more closets so I can put more stuff away, after weeding out what I don't need any longer and setting it aside for a donation pickup. The cats will be happy when they finally get their bird 'n squirrel watching station back, too. Here's some photos of what's on 'Cat TV' in the backyard today!





Brighton spent some time soaking up the 'rays' as it's sunny today and Disco...umm, he's put on 2 more ounces but we won't officially weigh in until tomorrow...



(enlarge this next photo at your own risk..)