I’ve been outside most of today, and am finally able to sit at the computer to blog.

Of course, I’ve been constantly interrupted by one thing or another, since I’ve come inside! 😄

Before I get into things, which will be in separate posts, I figured I should write about the important things.

Updates on kitties!

A daughter and I got eye baby’s eyes washed and treated.

Actually, we had to feed her first. When I woke her up by picking her up, she almost immediately went for my fingers. Once the modified kitten bottle was close to her mouth, she practically attacked it! She got a good feeding in, and then she was calm enough for us to do her eyes.

The one, less swollen eye is looking clearer, though we can still only open it half way. The other eye still looks rather horrific. She clearly can see something, though. After trying her off, I took her to the sun room and put her near a bowl of kibble. She ignored it and went right for a small carrier next to the cat cage and used it to climb up and through the cat cage wall to her favourite napping spot.

Where she found a cuddle buddy.

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I had been wondering how she got up to the second level of the cat cage! I didn’t think that she’s still small enough to fit through the wire on the second level.

I guess she wasn’t happy with her cuddle buddy up there, so she went to the bottom level to her other favourite napping spot.

There were two cuddle buddies in there. When she crawled in with them, one of them immediately started grooming her!

As I was going back and forth from the house while working in the garage today, I found her in different spots, including another spot that required climbing to get to. So she is managed remarkably well, considering the state of her eyes!

Then, as I was getting things together to go inside, I realized I couldn’t see her anywhere.

I had checked on the garden and the old kitchen garden was looking parched, so I decided to water it from the rain barrel while keeping an eye out for the baby.

I finally spotted her while refilling a watering can. Adam was lying in the grass with a whole bunch of kittens trying to nurse, and eye baby was trying to fight her way past bigger kittens to get some nip!

Adam didn’t like that I stopped to take a picture, though, so I caught her as she was standing up, with eye baby still half draped across her back!

As I finished the watering, I saw eye baby in the kibble house, searching through the kibble trays for something to eat. So I did the evening cat feeding, and she dove right in! She definitely has appetite!

Sadly, another sick kitty does not. I got messages from the Cat Lady about Button. He’s still sick, completely stuffed up and having to mouth breath. They’ve been having to force feed him. She was able to find the antibiotics, though, and he’s had his first doses, and she says he does already seem to be a bit better. Then, just a little while ago, she sent a photo of him, eating off of a plate! Hopefully, this means they don’t have to force feed him anymore.

I’m still amazed that he got so sick after they took him. The changes must have really stressed that tiny body out, and with him already having upper respiratory problems it just kicked right in.

She was able to get extra antibiotics, though, and I’m meeting her tomorrow afternoon to get some for eye baby. We’ll have to weigh her to confirm the dose. It’ll be once a day for 7 days. Between that and the eye drops, I hope that gives her the boost she needs to recover.

I’m honestly still amazed that we lost the orange and white kitten, but not eye baby. I still would not be surprised to find her gone, yet she does actually seem to be getting stronger!

We’ll keep on bringing her in for the night to treat her eyes and keep her in the carrier until the morning, then she’ll go back outside after treatment. This seems to be working out, and I think she’s getting used to this as a routine. The eye drops are supposed to be for 14 days, and now the oral antibiotics will be for 7 days, so we’ll be doing this for at least another 10 nights.

I’d better get busy with the other blog posts I need to write, because we’ll be bringing her inside again, in about an hour!

The Re-Farmer