It is so amazing to think these guys will be going out into the big wide world (well hopefully just a big wide house!) and hopefully finding a loving family where Cara can have a friend to run and play crazily with, Pearl can have a lap to cuddle up on, and Teddy can have someone he can dote on and be their little shadow. At the moment it is very sad to think of them leaving us, partly because it's really the first I've thought about it properly and it takes a while to get used to the idea, and partly because of the sad reality that this may be our last foster batch for a while.
Unfortunately, we are running into behavioural issues with our own cats. It is a very frustrating situation as it's only when they reach that 6 week plus mark when our own cats start seeing it as a territory invasion. Before that, they are just babies and the adult cats know there is no threat. To have to give up fostering because of the final 2 or 3 weeks of the process is sooooooooooooooooo annoying!!!
Of course, we will try everything we can before we make any big decisions. We have a Feliway diffuser installed which seems to work well, but we are just waiting for our refill to arrive as it has run out, and are doing everything else we can to sort out the issue.
Fingers crossed we can find a solution and keep on fostering. The winters are real winters here (unlike Queensland), and I doubt we will have a long breeding season so it will probably only be one more litter for the season anyway, but one more litter is more innocent animals saved. Even if it's a litter of 3, you save 3 animals per foster (one that can be fostered by someone else, one that can use the space in the shelter, and the one you're fostering) so that's 9 lives saved.
It's something I am passionate about and what on earth else would I have to blog about?! Let's face it, there are many more interesting fashion and graphic design blogs around, and I would have privacy concerns around blogging about my piano teaching. Besides these guys are just soooooooo cute and lots of people are telling us they love reading about them.
Keep your fingers, toes and eyes crossed everyone, and just hope my Addy boy can keep a lid on the soiling for a change!
As for the little ones, they are being vaccinated tomorrow (bit overdue, oops!) and then they should be ready for desexing when I get back from Queensland on Monday. I leave on Thursday and the other human half of the Bailment Kittens team will be looking after them, so hopefully he'll have some stuff to share over the weekend. We hope to do their goodbye shoot tonight so some cute pics will be on their way!
Cara chewing my foot
Pearl in her favourite place - human lap
Teddy Cuddles
NB - This post has been edited by request. I do not enjoy being censored, but can't really argue in this case. xx
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