Still Here - Part Four

Well the other fosters we had for 2010 were many and varied. They came and went because many of them were sick and I can only handle just so much at one time. Two that did stay with me their entire foster time and go up for adoption were Zinni and Char.

Zinni and Char were surrendered along with their sister Savvi the night of a wine tasting fundraiser at the shelter. They were from a litter of six, but the litter somehow ended up in some one's garage and three of the litter did not survive the cold night. The person rushed the three remaining kittens to us as soon as they discovered this. The three remaining kittens spent the day in our incubator and I took over their care, syringe feeding them every hour or so, trying to help them pull through.

Since we had quiet a few visitors in for the wine tasting event, many people stopped by the office door to watch me care for these little guys and we had a lot of volunteers asking about them after I took them home that night. They became known as my wine tasting kittens.

In honor of the event, I named them after wines. Zinfandel (Zinni), Chardonnay (Char) and Savignoun (Savvi). Sadly Savvi only made it a few days before she passed away quiet suddenly and dramatically. We think she may have had a twisted intestine which puts means that if you feed them it can kill them, but if you do not feed them they will starve. So there was really not much that can be done about a birth defect about this. Her sisters Zinni and Char had a difficult road and grew much slower that normal kittens, but finally at about 5 months of age they were big enough to put up for adoption and are both in homes that are great for them.

I also had some additional feral fosters that went up for adoption including a sweet girl named Gwen and a half blind long haired cutie named Merlin who was afraid to be picked up. They both found people willing to work with their personalities and give them the home they needed.