u/marietea22

Our babies' vet visit last night went great! Mama and babies are beautiful and healthy. Mama is only probably a couple years old and babies are about 3 weeks at this point.

Mom potentially has earmites so we're ordering her script for earmite meds today and getting more wet food for her and some kibble to transition to.

I'm not sure if she's ever had kibble, honestly. She loves lunch meat and cheese though 😁 I think that's what people were offering her in the neighborhood she was living in.

I was told that everything I'm doing for them and how I'm going about it is perfect and that we're hitting every milestone we need to be.

Everyone is constantly toddling around when they're awake and we have all but one with eyes and ears fully open. We've had a couple feeble attempts at playtime, as well.

Their little needle teeth are just starting to peek through their gums, which means weaning them off of milk and onto kitten wet food begins tomorrow.

Today I'm going to start slow introductions starting with one baby at a time in our bathroom. It's just going to be me, mom, and the babies at home during the day again, so the perfect opportunity to go at her pace, have some bonding with her, and allow for some bonding between her and babies.

My partner was able to put his hand in the live trap with Mama to pull her food bowl out to give her breakfast. She hissed and moved to the back of the trap, but didn't swat at him. I have a feeling all will be well once I get her out of the live trap and closer to the babies.

She felt comfortable enough during the babies' late night feeding last night to groom herself in front of me, and I was able to get a good look at her teats, and she is definitely our mama.

The receptionist/techs/vet were pleasantly surprised at the amount of detailed notes I've been taking and we were repeatedly praised on how well we're caring for them.

The tech told mama that she hit the jackpot with who found her and her babies, but truthfully I was at a point where I really needed some babies to fall into my lap, so it worked out for everyone.

We've been socializing them and I massage their toe beans and their ears and tails to get them used to being handled for future vet visits and regular care.

I will continue making posts as they grow and their individual personalities start showing, so stay tuned! 🐱

(*All of these pictures are from yesterday afternoon and this morning*)

I'm pretty certain it's mama in the trap. We didn't physically put them together because I want to make sure she doesn't have any fleas before babies are all over her.

I have a large cat carrier from my 14.5 lb cat that passed away in January of this year (RIP Vic 🐱) and I put babies in there and faced them towards mama in her live trap.

She's nibbled at some wet food, but she's a big fan of a little bit of cheese and some lunch meat since that's what people were feeding her in the neighborhood she was in. She started drinking water, as well.

She's made a couple feeble attempts to halfway roll over to expose her belly to the babies, but still seems nervous about it. She also appears to have something potentially neurological going on, but I don't want to speak on that more until she's been to the vet.

When I feed the babies, I make sure to do so in front of her so she doesn't get upset with not being able to see them but hearing them cry. She actually fell asleep during the midnight feeding last night (the last 3 pictures).

I'm gonna do some bonding with her as much as I can today and when my partner gets home from work this evening we're going to the vet for a checkup (would've went last night but have to be able to pay for it lol)

She's taken lunch meat and cheese from my hand and even licked my fingers, so I'm hoping it being me, her, and the babies for the day will give us some time to become buddies.

Babies are waking up as I'm typing this, so it's time to get more food in their bellies :)

My partner found some kittens in an unsafe spot at his work 3 days ago, so I'm enjoying my first experience bottle feeding babies!