Rocco Misses His Two Copycats

Rocco is pretty bummed this morning.  I think he misses Malcolm and Tobias.  Every morning they would run and pounce and wrestle and engage in general mischief-making.  Bodhi doesn’t play like that with Rocco.

Also, the Short Rounds looked up to Rocco.  If Rocco ran down the hall there would be two tabbies hot on his trail.  If he climbed a cabin door there would be a tabby right behind him.  He even taught them how to get on top of the kitty camper.  Yep, he passed along all his naughty tricks to Malcolm and Tobias.  They thought big brother Rocco was the coolest, and he totally ate it up.

So now Rocco is napping in my lap.  He’s probably wondering when his forever home will come along.

Congratulations to Tobias & Malcolm

Tobias and Malcolm left for their forever home yesterday.  I’m absolutely thrilled that they were adopted together.  Their new family is going to have so much fun bonding with them and watching them grow.   Congrats boys!

Trouble With a Capital T

The capital “T” in this case stands for Tobias.  The short and round one has emerged as the naughty kitty.  He likes to chew hair and climb legs.  The latter usually startles unsuspecting customers.  He once hurled himself from a cat tree onto a customer’s back.  He means no harm, though.  All he wants is to snuggle.  There isn’t anything snugglier than a chubby kitty!

Short Rounds Group Pics

These boys know how to take a group photo.  Check out this one I took the second week they were at Camp Kitty:

I’ll miss seeing the tabbies in a big cuddle puddle.

The Short Rounds Go To The Vet

I have dubbed the kitties from Paulding County “The Short Rounds” because, well, they’re short and round.   And, they’re fluffy n’ chubby and all around friggin’ adorable!

Yesterday I took them to Wellpet Humane for a wellness exam, their FVRCP vaccine, and a deworming.  I  have to say the problem with taking little kittens to the vet is that you never get out quickly.  Every staff member wants to come in to see them and hold them and love on them.  I was there for about 90 minutes.

The Short Rounds did great with the exception of Tobias who snapped at the vet who fished him out of the trash can he knocked over onto himself.  Crabby tabby indeed.  Malcolm was the first to come out of the carrier.  He weighed in at 2.8 lbs.  Next was Tobias who held his own at 2.4 lbs.  Last was Rooney. When he slowly peeked his head out of the carrier the vet tech exclaimed, “Oh you are the cutest and my favorite!”  Rooney was placed on the scale and proved that he really was all fluff by barely making it over 2 lbs.

All the little guys had fun running all over the exam room and climbing over objects on the exam table.  Malcolm stepped on the phone and ended up dialing a number.  Not sure who he called. 

In the end, the boys did not get their FVRCP vaccination.  Instead they got clavamox to clear up their upper respiratory infection.  Bummer.  It’s another two weeks of quarantine for them. 

If you want to see more photos of them at the vet check out our Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Camp-Kitty/104276016920

Dude, I Thought Kitten Season Was Winding Down

If you thought that then you’d be wrong.  Kitten season in Georgia is a nine month long event.  So, here we are creeping up on September and guess what?  Camp Kitty has another litter of kittens available for adoption.

I told myself that I wouldn’t take anymore felines in until Duck and Fiona were fully recovered and Rocco got adopted.  I guess I lied to myself.  Well, I’d like to think I was swayed and it was this photo from the Paulding County Animal Control Facebook photo album that did it:

And, a not-so-fun fact to go with that adorable photo:  Paulding County Animal Control euthanized 253 out of 348 of the animals they processed in July.  Less than 100 animals made it out of there alive last month.

Back to the kitties…the first photo I saw was of the domestic medium-haired (DMH) orange kitty.  Ever since I purchased the book “Dewey” and had a DMH named Paco board at the camp I’ve been wanting a fuzzy orange fella.  I told AARF that I’d foster him.  And, then I did something shouldn’t have, I decided to look at all the photos in the photo album and that’s when I came across this:

How could I not take the crabby tabbies, too?  The one on the right is giving Nip a run for his money in the side-eye department.   I told AARF if they have the funds I could take all the felines in the photo.  But, wait there’s more!  When Renee, AARF’s resident super hero (aka Animal Services Director), arrived at animal control to pull the kitties it turned out there were five total kitties in the litter.  She certainly couldn’t leave two behind.  The staff and volunteers at Paulding County AC were so desperate to get the litter out that they donated money to the rescue effort. 

Yesterday a bundle of kitty joy arrived at Camp Kitty. 

Nip cannot believe what he's seeing.

There are three male and two female DMH felines.  I was told that they were surrendered by their owner on August 18th at 6-weeks of age.  So, they’re 8-weeks-old this week.    The three boys will be living at Camp Kitty and the two girls will be calling AARF Pet Central their foster home.  Introducing…

Rooney

Tobias (aka Nip Jr)

Malcolm

And, here are the girls who don’t yet have names

I don’t yet know the details of their individual personalities, but they are cute and playful.  If you are interested in adopting them or any other AARF cat you can submit an application (http://www.aarfatlanta.org/adoptionapp2006.html).