Kitten #3 Goes To Foster Home

     A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a couple of beautiful little tuxedo kittens, about five weeks old, that I trapped over in Arroyo Grande at a house on Halcyon. I said at the time they were two little girls. It turns out, they're a girl and a boy, and over the weekend they got a surprise--their sibling, a solid black kitty that I trapped on Friday night, came to live with them.

      This little guy (I'll call him a 'he' though I don't really know what he is; hard to tell when they're so little) was one of the feistiest kittens I've ever seen. He hissed, he spit, he ran around his cage and climbed the bars trying to find a way out. Then when that didn't work, he cried for mom. When that didn't work either, he finally let me pick him up and hold him, but he wiggled and squirmed the entire time, just waiting for a chance to jump free and go racing off into another zip code. It's really difficult on young kittens being alone and this guy was really missing mom, so on Sunday he went off to join his brother and sister at their foster home in San Luis, becoming socialized and getting big enough to be spay/neutered and go on to the Adopt-A-Pet and, hopefully, their forever homes.

       The priority now is to trap mom before she has a chance to get pregnant again and start the whole cycle over.

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     Update on the Little Dude: The Dude is doing great now that his calcium numbers are within normal range. Last night, I was eating edamame, those wonderful Japanese green beans, out of a bowl and the Dude came to check out what I had, as he always does (he is a foodie, no question about it). Suddenly he dipped his little head into the  bowl, grabbed an edamame and ran off with it like he'd just committed grand theft! He seemed so pleased with himself and spent the next hour batting that green bean around the living room floor, having more fun than I've ever seen him have with a PetCo or PetSmart bought cat toy.

     And this morning, I found him sitting on a chair in the dining room, a spot that previously would have been completely beyond his ability to reach. I'm amazed and thrilled that he's able to jump that high! His progress is truly remarkable. In the meantime, I'm going to the store to replenish our stock of edamame.