It's Apollo!

Hi! Remember me? I'm Apollo!

This was me when you first met me. My foster mum said I was light as a feather!Did you know it has rained every day for 23 days straight?! Our foster mum said she is going to go troppo very soon. One of the roads to the shelter is washed away! It's not there anymore! We know we are lucky though, because our home and and the shelter are safe, and we are safe. We are sending our purrs and our prayers to our countrymen, women, kitties, woofies and everybody affected by the horrible fires and floods. We hope this cosmic joke will right itself soon, and our friends down south will get the water that they need.

The shelter vet couldn't get to the shelter for a few days because of the cyclone we had last week. Because of this, a lot of kitties are caught up in the desexing backlog. Thor and Loki are stuck there, but I was lucky to get through. Mum was going to bring them home yesterday until things settle back down, but the entire kittens were having a ball in their section, so she decided to leave them. Mum's friend at the shelter is going to keep a close eye on them, but she thinks they are continuing to thrive. If that changes, they'll come home with Mum.

This was me when she came to the shelter yesterday! I'm almost looking mancatly! I am up for adoption now at the shelter.

I am picking on kitties my own size now! My foster mum was giggling at how tough I was trying to be. Before I left, I was bashing my sisters, and they started to wee outside the box. Now things have settled down for them again, and I have other kitties happy to wrassle with me all day if I wanted!

Polly went home yesterday! My foster mum was shocked when she saw her. She is SO skinny. Foster mum could feel every individual bone in her spine and chest, and thought it was a little bit scary. Polly has also broken her tail. It's up at the tip though, so it wont bother her. It's been a bit of a struggle getting her to eat- she just doesn't want to. Foster mum has been forcing kitten formula into her, and late last night she got some Whiskas gravy into her. Today foster Mum learned that if she puts Polly infront of a dish with one of the other kittens, and Polly can watch the other kitten, Polly will start eating on her own! That makes it much easier than trying to force the food into her, especially because Polly might be very weak, but she is one fiesty little girl kitten! She has put on a little bit of weight today, and her eyes are brighter, so that is good. The other girls are cuddling with her, and being good big sisters.

Have a super week, dudes and dudettes!

I Can See You:)

Hello Everykitty!
Thankyou for your helpful advice yesterday. We were particularly appreciative to see that mum should not try to comfort us too much, or we would think something was wrong. We didn't know that. So she will do her best to try and keep things normal. Whicky, you are a very clever kitty:)



My friend Goldie asked how my eye is, and this is mum's report:
"Great! He is not blinking or squinting, and it all seems to have cleared up on it's own! The vet is mystified as to what went on, as are we. Looks like Fui is even weirder than we first thou-".

That's quite enough from you, thanks mum!
This morning mum and dad took Odin and Thor back for their hoohaectomies. They bought three little girl kittens home with them! They had horrible ears, so mum took them right back. They had one of the worst cases of ear mites the shelter people had seen, and spent aaaaaages getting all cleaned out. Hopefully they are more comfortable now, and can get forward with the business of being a kitten.

Without further ado, I would like to introduce:
Miss Polly Smitten-Kitten, a cute little floofball.
Miss Sally Smitten-Kitten, a lovely little tabby (like me, except I'm not little).

and Miss Penny Smitten-Kitten, a little tabby and white cutie pie.

The girls are about the same size as Freja, Apollo and Athena. Loki has taken on the role of kitten sitter, and seems to be really enjoying it.

Apollo is coming along in leaps and bounds. When they first came home, mum was a bit worried about him, as he was very lethargic, and not too interested in food. With some TLC, and some special attention from Loki (he is such a good kitten sibling!), he is now thriving. He is very funny, too. When the Smitten-Kittens first got here, they were pretty nervous and hissy. One of them was lying on the floor by Apollo, and she hissed at mum. Then Apollo looked at mum and gave a little half hearted hiss. Mum told him he was a silly billy, and reached forward to give him head rubs. At that point, he started purring his head off. He's a funny kitten head:)

I'm staying up tonight to watch the Inauguration with mum. We have to stay up till 3am before it starts! After seeing what I looked like in my Obamicon picture yesterday, I have Presidential aspirations.

(Fui, Australia doesn't have a President. We have a Prime Minister).

Yes but mum, I didn't want to leak my desire to be World Overlord too soon! So shush! Anyway, we hope everyone is having a happy week so far:)

We've Been Playing!

And having oodles of fun doing so! We've been biting toesies,


Bunnykicking heads,
Then bunnykicking other heads,Bopping each other on the noses,

Bobbing each other on the conks,

And playing Thundering Herds of Elephants all over the room!

It is such fun! We hope your weekend has been fun too, and you have an even funner week. It wont be too much fun for two ginger boys though, who are so ready for their hoohaectomies that they stand to lose half their body weight on Tuesday. MOL!!! (don't tell our foster mum we made that joke, we might get in trouble!).

By Athena and Apollo.

We Have Another Correction!

Hey there! Guess what! As is the tradition, not all of us had our genders correctly identified. I am a GIRL! And I am now known as Athena. This has meant a name change for my brother, too. We are no longer Cosmo and Kramer, we are now Apollo and Athena. Our cool tuxie friend formerly known as Willy Wagtail has jumped on the mythylogical name bandwagon, and now goes by Loki.

So, in our Little Litter, we are now Athena, Apollo and Freja. The Big Litter now go by Odin, Thor and Loki.

Goodness, all this confuzlement!

My foster mum reports that Fui was a very good boy at the vet. They put anaesthetic eye drops in and had a good look in under his third eyelid. There was no sign of any foreign object or trauma, and he has no clinical signs of anything viral. There is no discolouration to the eyeball, no discharge, and he allowed the vet to firmly palpate around the socket. So we are a bit stumped. The eye specialist will be up here in 6 weeks- the joy of living out of the way, I guess. For now, the humans are pretty stumped. There is a little bit or redness, and a little bit of swelling. The vet called his symptoms 'blephoraspasms', which is the squinting and excessive blinking from one eye.

I asked about whether it could be anything to do with his brain or nerves, and the vet said this was extremely unlikely, especially given he is not presenting with any other symptoms.

For now, we are taking a wait and see approach. Our vet believed it was likely there will be improvement naturally, without any intervention. If there is any worsening, we will have him back at the vet immediately. If the symptoms continue as is, there is really nothing we can do until the specialist comes up from Brisbane. For us to take him there would be a 2 hour flight (and he would have to travel cargo), otherwise it is approximately 20 hours in the car. Given that he sooks on the 10 minute trip to the vet, this would be good to avoid unless it is really necessary.

The vet recommended giving Fui a break from the eye ointment for the next 24 hours, incase that is causing additional irritation. So hopefully, that is the case and this time tomorrow he will be looking at us bright eyed and happy!