JR back home and normal

I knew JR was back to normal when he helped Her eat her cereal this morning. Since he was old enough to climb to her desk he has always had firsties at Her cereal and milk. When he swallowed the needle he stopped that habit but today he was waiting for her to bring her bowl of cereal and he ate 3 pieces and drank milk too! I figured how to shoot video with the camera so I videoed him sharing Her breakfast and posted it on YouTube! Don't tell Her that I did this...I don't think She would be very happy about it!

Anyway the babies all have their eyes open and they are beginning to move around so it won't be long now before they learn how to escape the nursery and start causing havoc all over the house. And once the barrier becomes redundant it will disappear and we will all have access to that room again. JR isn't happy that his nubbies are gone because Daddy and I have laughed a little about that but She pets him and tells him it will be ok that ours will be gone too very soon. Now What Does She Mean By That?!?

JRs back to Normal

JR Back Home!

These are JR's x-rays and you can see the needle poking out at the jaw line. We were so lucky that it stayed there rather than going down. He came home this afternoon but he obviously isn't feeling very well. She has to put this icky stuff in his mouth 2 times a day and then he will go back in 10 days to get his staples out. Now She just has to figure out how to pay the rest of the bill!

This is Her hugging and kissing on JR when he got home. He looks funny because he doesn't have his testicles anymore and he isn't happy about that either.

This is JR cuddled with Her hair bow. He needed assurance that he was home and was going to stay home for good now. The girls at the vet clinic all wanted to take him home and commented on how sweet and lovable he is. She told them there is a new batch that will be ready for homes in about 6 weeks.

And this is yours truly begging for a belly rub. I love belly rubs...I live for belly rubs...I think I will go see if I can get a belly rub right now!

JR's Troubles

Well JR is at the hospital for thee night. The lump on his neck was even bigger than yesterday so She got him to a vet. They took and x-ray and sure enough there is a needle in his throat. As painful as that must be we are lucky it got wedged in his throat and didn't end up in his intestines! He will have surgery first thing this morning and then She will go get him in the afternoon. They kept him over night so that they could give him antibiotics by IV to bring the fever down before they operate. And She has taken away all threads and needles and they are locked up when She isn't using them.

These first pictures are of the newbies in the cup.

These next Ones are the newbies with all eyes open and me trying to steal a drink from Momma! It's been a real busy day so I will sign off for now and I will post more pictures of all the kitties later after JR returns.

JR in Trouble

I haven't posted for a few days because we have all been worried sick about JR. JR has a thing about string and threads and the other day he chewed the thread right off the sewing She had been working on before going to bed. When he started to gag and choke She came and pulled the string out of his mouth but She did not know where the string came from. Later She sat down to watch TV and She picked up her sewing and realized the thread she pulled out of JR's mouth was from her sewing and the needle was still missing!

She is very upset because JR is having problems eating, swallowing, and drinking and She only has a very limited budget each month to live off of and we are stretching it with all the food we eat and all the litter we use. Now She needs to take JR to a vet to have him x-rayed to see if the needle is inside him. She has spent the last 3 days moving furniture and crawling around and vacuuming to try to find the missing needle but She has had no luck. JR is doing a little better health wise today but now he has a really big lump on his neck so She has been crying a lot because She can't afford to get him to a vet right now! We are all upset that She is so upset and we don't want to loose our brother that way. She has been looking for a good home for us Since the young ones are so many but I don't think She really wants to give us up.

I have been busy with the camera and will post photos at the bottom of my post. Maybe you readers could tell your friends about our blog sight and someone will see it that wants an indoor kitten that is litter box trained and have lots of energy. Our only bad habit is sneaking on the computer to blog once in awhile. Sissy is the prettiest softest black cat you ever saw. Even her whiskers are black! And she has golden eyes that make her look evil but she is so sweet and lovable and playful that you see right away that she is not evil at all. We have all been trained to respond to a spray bottle of water when we are doing something that could hurt us so we are very good at obeying and listening to the word NO. But we are kittens and will get into mischief by nature.

Well here are the pictures I promised. The first 3 pictures are the new babies playing in a big coffee cup. # was just too many to fit in the cup!

The next 3 are Sissy waking up Stripes and helping Momma give bathes!

And Lastly is Momma feeding the babies and Me(LB) on watch from the red chair on the left. Well I think She is waking up and I don't want to be caught on the computer but I will post more pictures later when She is asleep.

LB

Mischief Managed

Since the room is now blocked off Sissy hasn't stolen babies again but now that she isn't stealing babies Momma is letting her baby sit when she wants to leave the room. I guess Sissy wants to mother the babies too and Momma doesn't mind. But She is saying things like "it's time to neuter all the males so that we don't end up with another batch of kittens". I tried to Google neuter but She couldn't mean THAT! She must know of another meaning that Google doesn't.

She hasn't done well all weekend! She has a bone out in her back and all the construction vibrations are making it hurt worse than normal. She can usually sleep for a while and the bone goes back in by itself but it isn't working with all the noise and vibration. The vibration is driving us nuts too! When they start early in the morning we start ricocheting off the walls and that's partly what has caused her bones to go out. We haven't learned not to jump from the headboard bookcase on her bed onto her stomach. When we do it she jerks so bad she knocks bones out of place.

When the noise dies down in the evening we collapse into the chair and sleep until it starts again in the morning. I will try to get a picture of Sissy with the babies but she seems camera shy right now. I did get a picture of me and JR snuggling up to sleep off the noise. The camera has a timer you can set and forget and it takes the photo while you are doing other things!

Sissy's Mischief

Yesterday She took the babies out of the bin they had been in and she made an enclosure for Momma and the babies. She lined it with soft blankies and Momma is much happier now that she has so much more space. Momma hasn't laid down on one of the babies yet in the new area. But Sissy is driving our poor human crazy! Sissy keeps sneaking into the nursery and stealing one of the babies and taking it to the hall or the living room! She realizes one is missing and goes looking for it and can't figure out how the babies that don't even have their eyes open and can't walk are managing to climb out of the enclosure that is 12 inches high! We are all rolling on the floor laughing because they aren't doing it by themselves. But She doesn't know that Sissy is the culprit. I don't know if Sissy is doing it as a joke or if she thinks Momma has so many this time that she can spare one for Sissy to mother. Either way it has come to a stop because the door is now blocked so Sissy can't get into where the babies are now. But its been great fun watching Her try to figure out how the babies are getting out!