Inara Adopted!

Our sweet #SpaceKitten lit up like a Firefly when she met her new mom at Petco. Inara strutted her stuff, showed that she would be a great companion, and boarded a new ship to a home planet with a slightly older kitty brother who looks like Stormy. Mom will hopefully keep the kitten cam chat crew posted on her progress. Congrats pretty baby! Don't forget to watch the remaining Space Kittens on ustream!   http://www.ustream.tv/ASecondChanceRescue

Milo's Monday Update

Update from Milo, copied from Facebook:


Hello everyone  It's Milo here, I had a really good last couple of weeks and everyone seems pretty hopeful that I'm finally on the right track to being healthy! It's been a long 3 months and I'm not there yet......BUT from where my journey began (starved to 5.6lbs and near death) to now (just over 9lbs and responding to insulin injections) I'm doing well  I want to send big Milo hugs to Rocco (http://www.asecondchancerescue.org/animals/detail?AnimalID=5917212), hang in there buddy I know how you feel and I know you are in good hands!!! As always I can always use your support and donations to keep me on the right food and for my medications. Sponsor Me Here.  . Thank you all so much, until next time,
Whiskers and Purrs,
Milo

A SECOND CHANCE RESCUE-SPACE KITTENS 

SPACE– KIT-TAIN’S LOG

(as written by Communications Officer  Skwitty)

Star Date 7-22-2014

 It’s been some time since our last posting, and our rigorous training at space camp is almost complete.We have mastered the ‘mad dance’ moves of Kitty Disco.

We conquered the Battle of the Ringworm.  Not as fierce as the battle for the “Ring”  and just a little more irritating than the “Ringo” battles experienced by our ground crew.

Our base camp expanded from the mesh dome to a much larger facility.  We believe the mesh dome was a test of our ability to locate escape routes (thanks, Zoe).

Over the last couple of weeks, all of us have been to the medic for what we’ve heard referred to as “the procedure” or “snips”.  Not entirely unpleasant, but it seems something(s) missing.Thank you to the pharmaceutical team, very mellow.

Today we are missing our sister, but we did get to meet her new crew.  It seems our lunar trips served us well as she was actually 30,000’ above the planet on her journey home.

We think we’ll all be getting relocation orders – some of us may get to travel together, others may go off on our own.

We know we’ll be thriving little kit-dets wherever we end up in this great galaxy.  Our training with the commander they call KR and her First Officer KS equipped us well.

Scotty got quite attached to KS – he didn’t learn that we aren’t supposed to be so demonstrative in our affection for the bi-peds

Soon we’ll say good-bye to base camp, the training facilities and our space toys – and to you, dear readers.If you’ve smiled and laughed, good.  But we’re cats.  So we don’t really care :-)   Until we meet again.

The next momma

Picture of the Pirate Kitten's momma.  She is likely to give birth soon so keep checking back for updates

Flashback: Princess Rue



Rue, also known to the kitten cam world as Princess Rue, was part of a litter of 3 screaming kittens abandoned by their mother under a local Delray Beach private school/artist studio.  Little Rue and her sister Effie and her brother Gale, were found at the right time, as a mother cat named Jessica was just getting the hang of being a mom of two and could accept a couple more, or so I thought. 

 

The screaming banshees, as I called them, were a bit too much for Jessica to handle, so I had to assist in bottle feeding.  My dog at the time, Stella, was happy to help be mother and took care of a lot of the less glamorous parenting duties.  For a few days, two other orphan kittens, Peeta and Katniss, also joined my "Hunger Games" litter and Stella helped them all.

 

 Jessica got better at motherhood and I decided to fire up the kitten cam again.  I put Jessica, her 2 babies, Haymitch and Cinna, and my three orphans together on camera.

 

Weaning Rue was a chore.  When she discovered wet food, she always threw her entire body into the wet food, requiring baths multiple times a day. Stella enjoyed the first phase of bath, licking off much of the formula and wet food, but I would usually have to bathe her entirely.  Here is a pic of Rue after swimming in her food/formula mix and screaming at me to stay with her.

My kitten cam cast grew again with the arrival of Rainbow and her brood of 5.   Jessica went to another foster home and the kitten cam crew got bigger. 

Rue had problems growing, so she took a while to grow up.  While other litters came and went, she was still on the kitten cam.  She was always the star. And just got feistier though didn't grow much for a while.  When she was added to the Finding Nemo litter, she was smaller but 2 months older, and DEFINITELY the boss.

Rue eventually grew up, and I was too smitten with her to give her up.  Now when I am not at home she is allowed to go visit the kittens and the kitten cam, always wanting to be the star :)