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Naked Sphynx Cat Hampshire is a TICA
Before I get started & forget, here are the links that will take you directly to my Facebook Page and also my You Tube Channels where you’ll find video clips from the past & present for you to enjoy……
Yesterday, I promised you kitten weight updates, but just as I was at the births, I’m unhappy about the reliability & accuracy of my.scales.
At their births on Thursday, I kept achieving different weights for them which made me very mistrustful and suspicious of the truth of it.
Today, I set up the scales on the floor, a hard, level and flat surface but as I placed the first kitten on to weigh there was a really unexpected result, I didn’t think it was right at all so lifted him, re-tared to set back to zero and soon after read off other different result! They are not drastically different but the results are untrustworthy and that bothers me. Clearly, though not old this digital scale is not reliable & so I’m looking to replace them (again!) ASAP.
Feeding is going really well, I fed them 5ml at several feeds, again stopping them drinking more than this quota but, at the feed at 6pm I decided to let them eat their fill. They managed around 32ml between them and were milk-drunk however, some 90 minutes later, I became aware that the suckling busily again! Their tummies are gently rounded when suckling from mum so clearly she’s producing milk for them.
They’re looking like little sausages in a freshly opened package in these photos here don’t you think?
What lovely boys these are. Here they are in footage taken during the Euro 2020 final coverage on TV.
As I supplement feed them I’m able to get a few moments close up with them & marvel that, though very tiny, they have such different faces. I’ll no doubt get to recognise them one from the other as we get better aquatinted & their little individual personalities make themselves known.
All 4 are very accepting of the Miracle Nipple and I’ve continued today, as yesterday by feeding each kitten. I am giving each one 5ml of Royal Canin kitten milk replacer at each feed opportunity. The feeding guide says in the first week each feed should be 1-4ml & given 7 x daily (which works out to every 3 hours & 40 minutes), but I’m not their soul food source & the kittens are feeding from mum on and off throughout the day & night. When allowing them a fill of 5ml each time, and they definitely would take more, I’m being careful to stop so to leave them wanting more. As I put them back with their mothers they’ll continue to make demands on her milk supply before nodding off milk-drunk. They then settle like contented little kittens with their round ball-like full tummies.
I’ll weigh them tomorrow & will keep an eye on their bellies to make sure that they are always getting a good fill of mother’s milk & be ready to step up the quota I give as & when they need it.
Prune is much more settled now that I’m keeping her closed in and, consequently Floozy out. The little monkey is just as relentless and will cunningly try to creep in while I’m taking kittens in & out to feed them Mind you, she’s just started to cotton on that by staying out and “helping” me rather than Prune she can also surreptitiously lick the kittens at the head as I feed and that since my hands are so occupied she might even benefit from an occasional cheeky taste of the milk too. She gets right in the way though !
I caught up on lost sleep today (finally) but it’s now 5:51 am & I’m still awake listening to suckling and snuffling with my alarm set for 8am. This is because this week & next I’m going to help by acting as chauffeur to collect & drop my grandson off at his nursery and return his heavily pregnant mum home to get on with the work day. She’s about to do the last 4 days before beginning her maternity leave, something she never got to last time since H came early.
I reckon this baby will come early too, but for now with COVID numbers rising it’s important to protect them as much as is possible without H missing out on Nursety and childminding, since he has missed so much education & social time throughout lockdowns while his mum worked from home while attempting to mother him!
I took a couple of videos today as well as uploading the birthing footage to my You Tube Channel.
My current YouTube Channel is “Sphynx Cat Cam” though I have another with Pregnancy & kitten footage under Naked Sphynx Cat Hampshire too.
The footage I’m taking is still unfortunately not able to be well lit or set up due to the placement of the crate/nest and the coverings over it to keep them snug. It’s also awkward and moves a bit as I try not to let Floozy get in or block the view, but hopefully my efforts do at least allow you early viewers to see & enjoy the tiny little chaps for a few moments! Videos will get much better as they get bigger & stronger & don’t need the amount of protection they currently do.
It’s now the beginning of day 4 - I’ll be back later with their weights & today’s storytelling! Thank you for spending time with us, don’t forget to contact me if you’d like to ask questions or have interest in these kittens!
It’s my 55th birthday today & I spent the night supporting Prune. She wants to keep her babies for herself, & whilst she is being kind to Floozy, Floozy is such a determined little so&so & will not stop trying to be centre stage.
I’m continuing to supplement feed, and the kittens are certainly very happy to receive milk from the Miracle Nipple (the best but ohh-so expensive!). It’s just soooo cute when they are sucking the treat so eagerly and their muscles are moving their still turned down ears back & forth. With some syringes the plunger will glide down by itself moved by the force of the vacuum.
I’m making 20mls of milk replacer & then, pulling the entire 20mls into a syringe, then divide this evenly between each kitten. 5 ml each already is awesome l, they’re going to grow big & strong with appetites like this.
In fact, they would happily take more but I’m not filling them right up, gently removing the teat so that they will continue to seek sustenance from their mum thus encouraging her milk flow.
I’ve managed a couple of short videos today. Not great camera work but given that Im one handed while trying to keep Floozy from muscling in. She is absolutely relentless & determined.
Interestingly Prune grumbled at one of them earlier. I’m thinking likely in response to overzealous feeding or claw scrambling.
I’m laying here just listening to the dolphin sounding chatter that kittens often make - honestly if you heard it you’d totally get the dolphins sound reference! It seems to be a contended conversation and I wonder if they found this pitch perfect for communicating and I wonder if they conversed this way while in the womb? It’s always before they settle.…
I last topped them up at about 4:40pm & do I’ll give them a feed a bit later on to give them milk in their tummies so that hopefully I can get a few hours of sleep in. That’s if Prune will stay settled with them tonight rather than wanting to go in and out constantly.
