Farmwell Feline Fosters

26/05/2022

Look at our sweet Gumdrop (now Hazelnut) who got adopted by our amazing vet at Pinnacle back in December. She has the most beautiful colors! And her brother is very handsome too!

Ripken has officially shown Hazelnut how to cat and now she’s a professional! The cutest sibling duo🥹💕😻

12/05/2022

Baseball is one of the ”big kids” now! Shortly, our box babies will also be migrating downstairs and then he’ll have friends his own size! Cats learn so much from other cats. The value of that from a social perspective cannot be overstated. Baseball will grow into a much more well-rounded kitty with the help of these interactions and relationships!! The dog world spends a lot of time focusing on socialization. The same care and intention poured into cats is just as valuable!

09/05/2022

With humans parents, the saying goes, “the days are long but the years are short.” With kittens, the hours are long but the weeks are short! These babies are wormed, officially using a litter box (hallelujah), and 6 of the 9 have a full set of teeth, which means they’ve (excitedly) started weaning to wet food! I will not miss the 45 minute 4am feedings. But it’s all worth it for these babies!! Happy and healthy and growing, as they should be!!

05/05/2022

Baseball spam. Our mighty survivor boy is 4.5 weeks old!! He’s on par, weight wise (😅) but definitely has some minor delays in his physical development due to his recovery! He’s making up ground quickly though and he doesn’t know any differently! We adore him. He’s flawless.

04/05/2022

Our little Fireball has been special from the beginning. When I picked the babies up, I noticed him immediately because he looked a lot like Theodore, our keeper from the candy litter. Once I got the box of kittens into the car, he was the one who immediately set about plotting his escape. He’s the most active kitten in this batch! But as you can see from the video, he’s not ”normal”. This is totally fine with us! But he needs a specialist to determine the “why” so we can make sure he lives his best life. We started a fundraiser which I’ll link in the comments! Please consider donating or sharing! We are a very small organization so every little bit helps!

02/05/2022

The milk bar is still open for business a couple times a day around here! These guys are all getting fixed on Thursday and then they’ll be up for adoption through Nova Pets Alive! Treble (the solid grey) and Coda (orange) are hopefully going to the same home together but if you’re interested in a kitten (or in mama!) let us know! 🙂

02/05/2022

Cosmo

02/05/2022

28/04/2022

So, uh, remember how we were on a break? Well. We were tentatively seeking a couple of bottle babies because, once Baseball gets a little older, having some siblings will be hugely helpful for his development and socialization. Singleton kittens are known for developing problem behaviors as they age. But life laughed, as it usually does, and we ended up with more than a couple of extra babies.

A rescuer down in Southern VA took an emergency placement of 22 (no, that’s not a typo) neonatal kittens. So we all jumped into action figuring out how to care for these babies. I made the drive down to Charlottesville and met a very dedicated ACO who brought me a box of 9 tiny babies. So here they are, our “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere” litter…because the little grey and white one immediately earned the name “Fireball”. So, in no particular order because telling them apart to get good pictures of everyone is hard 😅 Fireball, Cosmo, Julep, Bacardi, Mojito, Rosé, Bellini, Captain, and Morgan.

They arrived on Tuesday and are doing amazingly well!! All gained an absurd amount of weight (we had three put on 50 grams in 24 hours…the average is 10 😮😮😮). Everyone is being treated for yucky eyes (already vastly improved) and mild URIs, but otherwise they are thriving!

Huge thanks to Finish Line Farm Cat Rescue for taking care of 22 babies while finding them all safe places to land! No small feat.

24/04/2022

I think we are officially out of the woods, as far as panleuk goes. There are dozens more things that could pop up at anytime, but the older this bean gets, the more likely he is to stay alive. Three weeks old today! At this age (and his relative size, which is small for his age), we look for 10 grams of weight gain daily. Since Easter, we’ve been lucky to see 2-3 grams a day. Until Thursday when this dude’s appetite finally returned. But the last two days, holy moly. He’s doing 20+ grams a day with no signs of slowing down. Which means his digestive tract is healing and he’s able to process more nutrients! This also means his tiny poops aren’t grass green anymore. All good things! Baseball has certainly been through the ringer but he’s still got some sass in him and we love it!