Surprise House Guests

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Flag of Canada Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

As many of you know who have been following along with our blog, we lost our precious little girl - Cocoa - our four year old cat in Santa Fe, NM when she mysteriously disappeared. We believe that she got out of the dog door at our friend's house when the dogs were in their owners room in the evening. Cocoa and Gonzo were exploring the house and then she was just gone. We searched for a week to no avail. We still are continuing the search for her and hoping for a miracle.
We have been thinking about adopting another kitten. I recently went to a local vet office and asked where we should look at adopting if we were going to. They suggested to us that we contact Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue. When we read the literature we saw that fostering was an option, so we got in touch with them to let them know that we would like to be considered for fostering a kitten or two...well, they had an urgent need to have someone for some kittens flown in from Northern BC - Bella Bella area who needed some help

Five Little Kittens

. We had no idea how many kittens were involved but we decided to go check out the situation. Well, that is when we found out that there were five orphan kittens (the mommy could not be caught) - they are only 4 weeks old and a couple are a little sickly.�
We thought that we would meet the challenge and take the whole lot with us to nurse back to health and get them ready (lovable) for a good adoptive family. We may still decide to adopt one ourselves, but for now we are mostly concerned with getting them healthy. When we picked them up on Saturday night, one was not really eating and we tried to feed them using an oral syringe. Talk about a mess. They are so small and do not have the eating part down-pat just yet. We had help from Rachael and her friend Katie (Rachael's first visit to our place) on Sunday. On Monday my friend Arlene came out and gave us a hand all day. It was a huge help. We had no idea what was in store for us to feed 5 babies at one time...but oh, they are so cute.
On Monday night we finally got some bottles to feed them which has made it much easier for us to do the feeding. Steve and I were able to handle it on our own today. We took them to the vet today as well and they were given a new antibiotic as well as an eye cream for their eyes. All but one has�respiratory issues and eye infections.�

We are quite tired, but they are worth it.�
More adventures to come.