LAPS:
Rose HappyForest
Rose was returned to the feral colony today by Kayla and Chloe. She moved away from the carrier pretty quickly once she came out, but she explored the feeding station area fairly leisurely once she’d moved out of range. I think she’s probably pretty happy to be out of captivity. Hopefully, at some nebulous future date, Rose (like Torelius) will have cleared up her ringworm on her own and will be able to be re-socialized again and come inside. All the People For Happier Cats volunteers who man the feeding station will do their best to make the station as welcoming as possible for her so here’s hoping. ❤️
The Sugar Litter
Sweet Sue, Osgood, and Sugar Kane are five weeks old now.
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The Great Catsby Litter
Fay and Lindy Hop, two of the tabbies born to Zelda, already have their eyes open…at only a week old. Very precocious. Zelda is getting some sub Q fluids to help her out a bit (providing milkbar for 10 kittens takes a lot out of you); she’s been vomiting a bit and her stools are soft.
Sully (aka Sullivan)
Foster Mom Jules had a Periscope session with Sully today while waiting for the Cassidy news clip to start on the evening news.
The CallaLily Litter
Alicia held her daily Periscope session. Captain is getting very adventurous, though Calla tries to keep him in line. This weekend, it’s time for real food, floor time, and litter box training. Should be fun to watch. ❤️
TinyKittens HQ:
Cassidy
The Langley Advance posted an article today about Cassidy: Kitten lost legs, but kept fighting spirit. (This is the reporter who visited on Monday.)
It’s not 100% accurate — for example, Cassidy weighed 524 grams and Topper weighed 782 grams when they first arrived at TKHQ at nine weeks of age so Cassidy was not half the weight of Topper — but it’s a good article in general.- Shelly took Cassidy to Walnut Grove Secondary in Langley, where a couple of grade 12 students (Josh Messmer and Isaiah Walker) are designing a wheelchair for Cassidy using their 3D printer. CTV Vancouver News had a news item about it today on each of their evening broadcasts — each one is somewhat different from the others; the 11:30PM clip is significantly different from the 5PM and 6PM ones so I’d suggest watching them all.
***** I’ve uploaded each of the clips here onto this site below, but you can also watch them (and the entire news broadcast online on the CTV News Vancouver site).*****- News at Five: You can also watch this at http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=705025&binId=1.2120150&playlistPageNum=1 starting at 25:43 in
- News at Six: You can also watch this at http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=705027&binId=1.1184759&playlistPageNum=1 starting at 29:21 in
- News at 11:30: You can also watch this at http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=705004&binId=1.2120160&playlistPageNum=1 starting at 10:58 in
- News at Five: You can also watch this at http://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=705025&binId=1.2120150&playlistPageNum=1 starting at 25:43 in
- Shelly took Cassidy in to Mountain View Veterinary Hospital this afternoon. The growth plate in his left stump isn’t growing the way it should. They did some x-rays and there is definitely something not right with it. The right knee growth plate looks pretty normal so you can see that he can bend it and move it quite normally. His left stump has been changing and was starting to look hyperextended. They will see a specialist on Friday to get a better idea of what’s what and what courses of action will be available and/or advisable in the future. (The damage to the growth plate likely happened when the other damage occurred to his legs, but it is becoming more apparent now because he’s getting good nutrition now and thus is growing like a weed.) You can hear more on the video below that Little Darling uploaded (“Tiny Kittens Vet update Cassidys growth plate in left stump isn’t growing right but will be ok”) — that video also has some really good kitten play between Topper and Cassidy, with Shelly evening the field a little between them by holding down Topper’s back end. It’s obvious that Cassidy is feeling better and more like a kitten age should be feeling and acting.
People for Happier Cats/TNR site:
- No updates yet today except that, as noted above, Rose has been released back into the Happy Forest feral colony. Hopefully she’ll come back to visit with the humans periodically and will eventually be able to be brought back indoors.
Today’s video caps courtesy of Sara (Little Darling):
Tiny Kittens Shellys morning visit with Tip and kittens
Tiny Kittens Shellys morning visit with Cassidy and Topper then off to wheelchair fittings
Tiny Kittens Shellys visit with Cassidy after wheelchair fittings
Tiny Kittens Shellys brief visit with Tip and kittens between meetings
Tiny Kittens Vet update Cassidys growth plate in left stump isn’t growing right but will be ok
Tiny Kittens Shellys late night visit with Cassidy and Topper
[Page last updated: 2015/09/24 at 05:25 PDT]