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let’s hear
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 | breeding, vetmed | 2 Comments
Last friday we went to the university of veterinary medicine to have the hearing of our l-litter checked. The procedure is called brain-stem audiometry and takes just a tiny tiny narkosis an can be done on babies as young as ours. There are little needles (electrodes) placed under the skin of the head and a computer registers the conduction of certain acoustic signals inside the head.
White cats do inherit a higher risk of being deaf. It’s a defect and should not be bred from. Also cats who produce many deaf kittens aren’t meant to be contributing to the gene pool of any breed. So you can imagine I wasn’t completely calm while watching the procedure.
But you may also imagine how happy I felt when we found out all ears are hearing perfectly!
Like a lioness hunting for ants
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | breeding, kittens | No Comments
Or something like that. Just to discribe how it feels when you spent 48 hours non-stop feeding two little bodies drop per drop. 2 kittens that should better be still inside their mother instead of next to her.
But it’s also a question of where you draw the line. How to accept decisions that nature has made long before we know… most importantly how to realize these decisions and how long to stay fighting.
Karayaka weighted 68g this morning. Not very relieving as she still will only drink from the milk replacer and not from her mother but it’s better than nothing.
Kerry Hill still refuses to forcelessly take any drop offered. Not from his mommy, not from the milk replacer, not even from the glucosis solution. He was put on antibiotics just to be sure but would have 2 times drifted away already if the infrared bulb hadn’t kept him warm and we hadn’t subcutanously given some fluids to keep him hydrated. (big thanks to our vet) We’re fighting.
But can you honestly nurish little lions with ants?
PS: The other 4 babies are growing nicely.