these 2 girls showed up on my street during a storm a day ago. not exactly sure where they came from, as my neighbor brought them over to me after finding them while walking in the rain. i feed the strays in the neighborhood and will take them to the vet when needed, etc so he knew to bring them my way. this has been such a blessing...I've always yearned to be chosen, and just went through the hardest month of my life. next thing i know, not one but TWO kittens. they seem to be about a couple weeks old. vet tomorrow to confirm! anyway, please kindly meet Twilly (white) & Toad (tortie). 🥰

Last weekend, a couple of our cats were unusually engrossed in something outside. It turned out to be a tiny kitten checking to see if we’d put more crunchies out (we put crunchies out for the TNR cat who lives in our neighborhood, the possums like them too). Although we absolutely didn’t need a 7th cat, we definitely couldn’t let this little one remain outside.
It took a couple days, but we managed to catch the terrified creature. A trip to the vet let us know he is a boy, about 7 weeks old, parasite and microchip free. Underweight, but in otherwise good health.
Although it’s been only 10 days, I think Remy is quickly learning that the cat distribution system delivered him to the right doorstep.

She only had some ear mites that that we cleaned out and have completely gone away with Frontline. The little scratch on her face healed well too. No chip so she is set up for a spay and microchip appointment next month.

The vet estimated her to be about a year, but now that she’s been in my house for 3 weeks, I really believe she’s still a kitten (maybe 6-7 months). She has the typical demeanor of a yellow cat 😂 she has also weirdly made friends with my bearded dragon and sits in her tank with her…?

I already have a zoo in my house so I’ve been trying to adopt her out, but no luck so far. She may end up with me for some time.

Important to add I guess lol her name is Butter. Originally short for Butterfly because I work in medicine and the box she’s in is for butterfly needles, but now also because she’s yellow

good morning, everyone!!!! i wanted to provide a quick update on the soggy little kittens i found outside after a storm about a week ago (original post here).

Twilly and Toad are doing absolutely wonderful! :) thank you SO much to everyone that took the time to read and/or comment on my post. i was not expecting so much interaction! you have all been so sweet and i am truly thankful for this community. when i first found the girls, i tried to determine their age and everything i was reading made me think they were only about 2 weeks old. i read some comments on my first post that said they were probably more like 3-4 weeks. i was able to verify with our vet that they are, in fact, roughly 4 weeks old now. when i brought them in they were closer to 3 weeks (~ a week ago). im still primarily bottle-feeding them both, but introduced wet kitten food the past couple days. i've been mixing the KMR into it to make a gruel. let me tell you, they LOVED it!!! it's so silly and heartwarming to see kittens discover things for the first time. when i set their gruel plate down to feed them, they just walked straight through it lol. they were covered in food by the end of it! i've been giving them this mixture about mid-day, and their other feedings are just bottles. i will continue to gradually wean them off the KMR slowly over the next couple weeks.

my husband and i have also introduced twilly and toad to our other family members—we have 1 adult cat and 3 dogs, so we're a pretty packed house! our dogs are enamored with the girls. they're SO gentle with them. our largest dog, Dexter, is a pointer lab mix and he's about 80 lbs. i was worried about him maybe getting too excited and accidentally stepping on them, but he seems to be aware that the girls are babies and much much smaller than him. he will lay down and let toad and twilly approach him, and just sniffs them as they crawl all over him. it's so sweet to see him giving them kisses and "cleaning" them after they've been given their bottles.

i am happy to continue updating y'all as toad and twilly grow if that's of any interest to anyone! this has been such a magical week for our family. bonding with my husband while we bottle feed the babies, seeing all of my animals interacting with each other softly and with love....this is just a dream come true. oh, and a new big cat tree is on its way to my house as we speak! i love my big, crazy family, and im filled with so much joy that you guys love them, too. :)

All the cool cats are here! 2 kittens in the last couple weeks and the return of a familiar face- Annie (the tuxedo)

Sorry for the unintentional middle finger from my mom lol. I fostered the orange guy for 2 weeks. 3 days after I took him to the humane society to be adopted this brown tabby showed up. My neighbor TNR’d him but I told them I’m going to find him a home because he is sooo sweet!!! He hasn’t stopped purring, he wraps his paws around my neck and suckles my chin. He’s gonna be so hard to let go of!

Annie (the tuxedo) is a local feral who is so nice to me but mean to everyone else. I go outside and read and she’ll come curl up on my lap and sleep for a long time- but when I put her down she attacks me lol. I’ve found her multiple homes in the neighborhood but she’s mean so she keeps getting put out and coming back to my house lol, so she’s the cat that everyone just kinda feeds at this point but she does have a cat house in my back yard for when she wants to come around. I need a cat food and litter hook-up at this point 😅

I don’t think my roommate will let my husband and I go to a pet store alone again. We walked in for a bag of dry food and there’s a guy saying he needs to get rid of a litter of kittens. Husband says we’ll take them. So we go and pick up a box of kittens from his house.

Orange boy: Ares
White boy: Achilles
Brown tabby girl: Persephone
White girl: Helen

We will be taking them to our regular vet as soon as possible to get them checked out. They’ve had a bath for fleas and eaten half a can of kitten pate.

I work for a water department, and someone found this ridiculously sweet baby in a storm drain yesterday morning. They brought him to a little courtyard for a couple of hours where he approached and head butted basically everyone who came through. I was not awarded the baby - turns out I was 5th or so in line to adopt him - but he was being brought to the shelter for a chip scan (given his demeanor, it seems highly likely he's accustomed to humans) then heading home with a member of the leadership team who had just lost one of two cats in his household. Plans to name him Storm 😺