Port Oranges and Catterns Updates!

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As you no doubt are aware, Port Oranges have been getting picked up by their adopters and as of this writing, only Bombay, Rotterdam, and Sydney remain. And Millet, of course. They will be picked up in due time:

  • Bombay - Friday July 9th

  • Syd and Millet - Saturday July 17th

  • Rotterdam - TBD, after neuter on the 12th

We would have liked to have done another studio photoshoot with the entire group but unfortunately, time did not allow. We did, however, catch a bunch of action shots with the oranges and the A-Door-Able bird toy. You’ll find some of those at the end of this post!

Meanwhile, we managed another brief shoot with the Catterns. We’ll split that up by kitten here as it’s still difficult to tell Chevron from Herringbone. The Catterns are finally eating well on their own and all seem very active and happy! There’s good evidence that the Calicivirus that Rotterdam had earlier has been picked up by some or all of the Catterns but they seem — like Rotterdam — as though they don’t even notice.

Paisley

Basketweave

Chevron

Herringbone

Argyle

Loom

Here’s a few extra of the Catterns

Here’s some photos of the Oranges at play!












Oranges! Photos! Updates!

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We’ve got updated photos of the Oranges for you below, but first, some news:

Port is scheduled for her spay on the 1st and will be eligible to go home with an adopter about two weeks later. All of the boys are scheduled for their neuters on the 22nd and will be eligible to go home pretty much the next day!

Relatedly, applications for the Oranges are now open! You can apply by clicking the application link in our menu above. The Danbury Animal Welfare Society manages processing of the applications and selection of applicants. They have informed us that prior applicants who weren’t able to get kittens in previous classes have accounted for several of the Oranges already having adopters, but Port and some of the kittens (we don’t know which) are still available. As always our suggestion is to go ahead and apply! If you don’t get the kitten you were hoping for, you’ll at least be in a good position for when the next right kitten comes along!

The big news, of course, is that Loom, our newest momcat, gave birth to five beautiful kittens yesterday. We had suspected there was a sixth pending, but we’ve since changed our opinion - seems like 5 is it! The kittens all seem quite healthy and Loom seems quite healthy and happy and they are all making the right motions, so it’s a bit of a mystery so far why the kittens don’t seem to be getting much milk from Loom. Until we’re able to solve the mystery, we’ll be tube-feeding the kittens on a rigorous schedule and we’re communicating with Dr. Katz. We’ll be able to discuss this in more depth in an upcoming post with their newborn photos!

Finally, quick update on Millet, who is doing wonderfully! We don’t yet know how effective the treatment has been but we should get our first update on that after his next visit to Dr. Lansdowne at the Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine in Guilford. That will be on Wednesday the 2nd.

Here’s individual photos of the oranges and then a bunch of everything all together!

Halifax - Male - White Collar

Bombay - Male - Black Collar

Puget - Male - Purple Collar

Rotterdam - Male - Checkered Collar

Antwerp - Male - Pink Collar

Sydney - Male - Blue Collar

Rio - Male - Red Collar

Port - Mom

Group Photos!

…and here’s the rest!

Introducing Port Oranges!

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DJ’s Cheat Sheet - Names by Marking Location

Port’s eight little kittens arrived without much fanfare a week and a half ago, on March 14th. The delivery was swift and professional; she’s surely done this before! Defying the odds, all eight are male orange tabbies with varying amounts of white, which makes them extremely difficult to tell apart at a glance.

We have used food coloring pens in the past, but they get cleaned off far too easily and quickly, so we tried shaving a spot on each kitten so we could tell them apart, and while it worked, it looked very odd. Now we’re marking each one with a dot of food coloring gel, which seems to work well enough. Each kitten has their dot in a different place, so you can tell them apart that way. This will continue until they are big enough to get collars - usually around 4-5 weeks.

Because they are so difficult to tell apart, we’ll post each one’s photos individually for future reference. The white backgrounds are from the 16th and the purple backgrounds are from the 24th.

Halifax - Mark on head

Dover - Mark on back

Bombay - Mark near tail

Puget - Mark on right shoulder

Rotterdam - Mark on left shoulder

Antwerp - Mark on right haunch

Sydney - Mark on left haunch

Rio - Mark on chest/belly

Port - Mom

Here’s some miscellaneous extra photos!

Bready Bunch , Port Oranges, and Smokey!

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Our latest update on Smokey isn’t great news. You can click the button below for that:



To hopefully give a little cheer, here’s a short set of candid photos of the Bready Bunch and the Port Oranges, who we’ll introduce in more depth in the next blog post.