It's kitten season in Las Vegas again. My first set of fosters this year have been settled in for almost two weeks now. I'm just now getting around to putting up a blog post for them.
Jack, Patches, and Cody were probably about six weeks old when I brought them home on May 16th. Jack is named for Jack Sparrow of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. With his little patch of black over one eye, my sister thought he looked like a pirate. Cody is also named for a movie character--Cody Maverick from the animated film Surf's Up. Patches got her name for her little calico "patches.
Jack, Patches, and Cody got off to a bit of a rough start with the litterbox when they first arrived. It seems perhaps they had never seen one before and didn't know what to do with it! The first couple of days, I woke up to three piles of poop and three puddles of pee, mostly on the carpet of course (Ewww!). On the third day, though, Jack finally figured out what that big box of sand was for, and the others soon followed. We've been accident-free for several days now.
As is typical when I have a litter of three, there's usually one that's noticeably braver than the other two. Jack is the brave one in this bunch. He's even reasonably brave around strangers, or at least he was today when I had people over to work on my house. Maybe he just appreciated the solar screen being installed on the window to their room--it should be much cooler in there for them now!
Patches and Cody are more shy. Patches in particular is still fearful of hands. She'll walk right up to me like she's dying to be petted, but can't quite muster up the courage yet to avoid jumping out of the way when I reach for her. However, when I can catch her off guard and pet her anyway, she really seems to enjoy it. Cody is a little hand-shy too still, however, he's also the most jealous of the three. Once you stop petting him he'll make the most pathetic little cries to get your attention again!
The kittens should be due their first set of shots immediately after the three-day weekend. Time is really flying by this time.
