Eat, Sleep and Poop

Basil at 2 weeks old.  She is very happy in her child tent home.

Exhaustion has truly set in, but only another week or so to go and I will get more than 3 hours of sleep at a time.  It brings back the days of having a newborn, and reminds me that I can be finished with that phase of my life.  Thankfully my sleep deprivation will only last a couple of weeks, not months on end.  In the mean time, I sleep as often as I can when the babies are sleeping....sound familiar.  The rest of my focus is on the next feeding and who has pooped.  Yes, this is huge.  A kitten that doesn't poop will get very very sick.  Basil, the one pictured here, is doing great in that department.  But, Tarragon and Rosemary are having some troubles.  Adding pumpkin, a pro-biotic and olive oil to the milk re-placer usually helps.  A warm cloth and gentle tummy massages are also useful.  Hoping for the best, we need a good poop today.  The last one was on Saturday and it is Monday morning.

This is the kittens' home, inside a child tent.  For now each has their own crate for sleeping.  The separation was necessary to stop them from helping each other go to the bathroom. Each crate is lined with lambs wool, and a towel.  There is a heating pad set on low at the back end of the crates.  It is important for the kittens' health and digestion to stay warm.  It is also important that they can move away from the heat, so the front end of the crate has extra air circulation and no heating pad near it.

This little tent has housed many a kittens and is not long for use.  I'm on the look out for another used child tent or 2 man tent.  Small tears are not a problem, but when the zipper goes it will be less useful to me.