Having a mom with healthy kittens is a pretty easy foster. Sunshine is a good mom. She is feeding them well and keeping them clean. We just have to clean their cage and litter box daily, see that Sunshine has plenty of good food and water. We monitor the kitten’s health each day by weighing them and looking them over to ensure they are fit. We have trimmed their toe nails twice already as a favor to Sunshine. Those nails are like sharp needles and they use their feet when they nurse to help Sunshine let the milk down for them.
Sunshine prefers to spend most of her time with her kittens, but she does come out of the crate to stretch and explore the office a few times a day. Care gets trickier next week when we start offering them gruel (a soup made of cat/kitten food). They will still nurse, but they will also start lapping up and wearing the food (just like puppies). We are counting on Sunshine to clean the food off them after each feeding! By the time they return to the shelter at about 8 weeks, they will be able to eat dry kitten food.
The kittens haven’t shown a lot of personality yet, but they do accept handling. They will be a lot of fun when they are ready to play! That may be sometime next week.
