Eeeewwwww!

I heard something very funny! Really really very funny! Before my foster daddy went away, he and my foster mum went to a place called the Hervey's Range Heritage Tea Rooms. It is about an hours drive from where we are living. It's quite a pretty place.

This is my foster daddy making friends with their horse. He was an old boy, and very friendly.

But that's not the funny thing. Do you know what the Tea Room specialty is? It is a drink called
Kopi Luwak. See this animal? It is a Civet Cat.See this? It is a preserved Civet Cat poop.

Do you know what that is in the poop? Coffee beans!!!

Civet Cats eat coffee berries as part of their natural diet. The beans pass through their system undigested. These beans are then harvested, and made into coffee!! And it's expensive coffee, too. One cup at the Tea Rooms was AU$50 (US$32.83 as of Saturday night). It is thought that the digestive enzymes break down some of the proteins in the bean, making it less bitter. If you or your humans saw The Bucket List, you would have seen that they had trying a cup on their list of things to do.

Did you read that!? People pay to drink pooped out coffee beans! Humans are bananas, kitties. Bananas! The tea rooms sell 4 cups a week!

By the way, my foster mum had a strawberry milkshake, and my foster dad had a chocolate milkshake. They are not brave:)

My big ginger foster brother Odin has found his Forever Home!!!! He found his yesterday. Thor was held back last week, and will be desexed this Wednesday. Loki went back today, and will also be desexed on Wednesday. Hooray for the Big Litter Boys!:)

LOLed at you by Athena the pretty kitten (see how pretty I'm getting now that my face is filling out?).

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.

PAPARAZZI!

Hey there. How's it going?

Come here and give us smoochies!

You know you want to!

Guess what! We are about ready to go back for our hoohaectomies already! We are very big strong mancats-in-training.

Did you see our silly foster mum post Suey's PhotoHunt yesterday, instead of tomorrow? Crazy lady. MOL!

Love from Odin and Thor (the big strong ginger boys).

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!

We Have Names!

I am Cosmo!
I am Kramer! (can you tell what my foster parent's have been watching a bit of lately?!).
I am Willy Wagtail!

I am Odin!

I am Thor!

And I am pretty Freja!

It is nice to have names now:)

Fui is off back to the vet tomorrow. He is still squinty, and is quite puffy around his face. Mum is worried that they are going to have to put him under, so if you don't mind, we would really appreciate some purrs. It breaks Mum's heart to know that he is hurty.