A few folks have asked “what happened to the kittens from May?”
Well, I’m pleased to report that we got a call from HSSV (the shelter we took the kittens to) about a week ago, thanking us again for our rather generous donation and letting us know that all the kittens were doing well. They did have to go into foster care to be fully weaned and better socialized, but then at 10 weeks they were all put up for adoption. There were two boys and two girls.
I kept my eye on the website’s list of adoptable pets and caught the postings for three of them. It seems one of the boys was adopted quickly, as he didn’t get a listing, but I was able to deduce his ID number and managed to find his entry from that. I’m also pleased to note that their foster parents actually wrote individual bios for the little guys and girls. Instead of stock boilerplate stuff that usually accompanies a kitten listing, their personalities were mentioned and it was fun to read someone else’s summation of them to see if the things we saw held true later on.
The first picture below is my favorite picture of the kittens from when they were confined in the studio building. Each day I would have to coerce Momma into a trap so I could clean the kennel, which allowed the kittens some liberty. From left to right: Nanami, the tiny, shy, docile little female that was happy to be held and shown affection; Kuroo, the rambunctious boy that loves to climb anything and was adopted almost immediately; Mikasa, face first in the kitten food, the feistiest of the lot, having no qualms bossing others out of her way, the only one without any white patches and definitely Lucy’s little offspring; and finally Ciel, who was just a kitten with no remarkable traits to set him apart from his siblings–the typical middle child.
Below are screencaps of their adoption blurbs in order of the first image.
After writing this post on Friday and scheduling it for publishing Monday, Agent Smith and I ended up near the Petco, so we decided to check in on Ciel and Nanami since they were still listed as up for adoption. The kitten area at the adoption center is very nice, but the astonishing thing was that an older couple was in the middle of getting to know Ciel. We explained to them who we were and why we were there, and filled them in on how Momma patrolled our ranch and we ended up capturing her and the kittens in May, but due to allergies couldn’t keep the kittens. We then checked on Nanami, who was in a nearby kitten cage. She was very alert and playful. Neither she or Ciel had a clue who we were, which is just as well since that week in the studio was pretty traumatic for everyone. We stayed about 5 minutes in the kitten area, and when we walked out I explained to the volunteer manning the front desk who we were and showed her a picture of Momma. Just then the folks who’d been getting to know Ciel came out to sign his adoption papers, so I showed them the picture as well and explained what a bruiser Lucy was and how we caught him and Hank just this week and had them neutered.
It was certainly a high point of our week and to top it all off, I learned that Nanami had been adopted when I checked the site today to add Kuroo’s listing to this post. So all four kittens are out of the feral system and we are done with cats, at least for this week,.