As has been usual for the past few days, we planned to bring eye baby in for the night, along with the orange and white kitten that she’s been cuddling with so often.

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When I walked into the sunroom, much to my shock, I spotted eye baby – on top of the table saw! I have no idea how she managed to climb up there. Thankfully, I was able to grab her before she walked off the edge!

I’d already prepared her very own cat soup in a bottle to feed her with, and had the bathroom ready to wash the eyes of both kittens. After carefully washing her eyes – gosh, they look so awful, and are still swollen shut – I held her while my daughter added the eye drops. Then I went and got the bottle to try and feed her.

She was very hungry! She kept trying to eat the top of the bottle while I was trying to be gentle about squeezing food into her mouth. I think she even bit the tip off the nipple, and almost pulled it out of the cap a couple of times! It all got very messy. After a while, my husband came out to hold her while I tried to feed her some more.

If she gets hungry later, all she’ll need to do is groom herself! 😄

My husband was going to put her into the carrier to give her a chance to settle before we brought in the orange and white kitten, and then added the food and water bowls. If the bowls are already in the carrier before she is, she ends up walking through them and knocking them over. He ended up settling in my desk chair, just holding her, while I put what was left of the bottle in with the rest of the prepared food, then washed up before heading out to bring in the orange and white kitten.

Instead, I found myself burying him under the honeysuckle and rose bushes, with the many other kittens we’ve buried under there this year.

Between the two of them, I honestly did not expect to be burying him, first.

Earlier this evening, I got messages from the Cat Lady. Because the clinic had been so busy when she brought Button in, she ended up not getting any antibiotics for him right away. Well, all the changes happening to him right now are pretty rough on that tiny body, and today his upper respiratory issues kicked into high gear. He’s so stuffed up, he’s mouth breathing. She called the clinic and they’ll have antibiotics ready for her when she’s back in the city. I told her that eye ball kitten and the orange and white kitten seemed to be getting worse, not better, and she told me she would have extra antibiotics that she can pass on for them, too.

Well, it’s going to be just for one kitten, now.

I’ve since messaged her to tell her about the orange and white kitten.

Eye ball kitten, meanwhile, may be essentially blind right now, but feisty as heck! For the first time, as I was washing her eyes and before I started feeding her, she was fussing to get free and actually started to bite at me! Once in the carrier, she started clawing to get out. I ended up taking her out to cuddle her for a bit, but she wanted down – something we can’t allow her to do – and she tried to bite me again! So, back into the carrier she went! I’ve got purring cat sounds playing again, and she settled soon after. She may not have her orange and white friend to cuddle tonight, but she does have her plushy, so she will at least have something soft and fluffy to sleep against.

What a way to end the day.

It was most definitely not the good bye I was expecting to make.

The Re-Farmer