Boris Wants You to Win

Boris just entered to win a gift certificate at CatToys.com and he wanted you all to try and win it too [he want mind as long as he never sees it he won't know he is missing anything]. :)

Boris Recommends These Treats …

Are you looking for some good treats that your cat will love and that you know are safe from contaminants? Look no further Boris is here to help. This is a list of his favorite treats. Most of which are made in the USA or have been proven safe:

Whole Life Treats – Made in the USA of only one ingredient. Freeze dried Salmon, Chicken, Turkey, Liver etc. Boris loves Salmon the best [see the video below].

Catswell Vitakitty – chicken jerky treats that are both tasty and proven safe. These are from China but they are made under strict conditions, proven safe and the chickens are humanely [cage free] treated. He loves the taste of these almost as much as his Whole Life treats. Also available in a Happy Hips formula for older cats.

Feline Greenies – yummy treat also made here in the good ole USofA. Five tasty flavors [Chicken, Beef, Ocean Fish, Salmon and Tuna] designed to help clean kitty teeth and freshen kitty breath.

Zukes - Natural Purrz treats are packed with all the essential vitamins and minerals cats need to stay healthy and happy plus they are made in the USA. He really loves the salmon. There is also a chicken flavor. His older sisters are getting the Hip Action treats and they all just love those.

He has also just tried a freeze dried mouse treat and really loves it, but I need to get more information on them before we tell the world about them.

Boris Gets His Treats

Boris will work for his foods! His favorite treat is the freeze dried salmon from Whole Life, we get it at CatToys.com. As you can tell by the video he loves him his salmon treats!

Boris and the Fling-ama-String

This is Boris' first look at this odd new thing in his house. What is it and what do I do with it?



Once he got the hang of this thing he really loved it. I turned it off and he still wanted it running. He laid there staring at it until I turned it back on. Then when I turned it off again he kept playing with it and checking the other side of the door to see if the string was wrapping around that side too. He is a silly boy!

Boris in a Big Box

Here is our "little" guy in the box his new SmartScoop litter box came in. If you saw the size of the litterbox you'd know how big this guy is!

Floating Cat

Boris decided he was going to take over my new photo background.

Bad Boy Like Bags

It is hard to keep him out of plastic bags he loves them especially zip lock bags.

Loves Getting into Trouble

We have to double check now every time we open and close the fridge cause bad boy sneaks inside!

How's This Thing Work?

Finally he gets it and he loves it too.

Bonnie New Bed

Boris in his comfy new bed.

Weening is no fun!

Trying to get him off the bottle.

Who Wouldn't Want This?

This sleepy little guy did this himself. He crawled under the balnket and fell asleep. And somewhere along the way rolled over. Just had to take a picture!

Boy He Has Grown....

I know he is still a littl guy but since we have gotten him he has grown quite a bit. Now that he is getting around better [no more falling on his face with every shakey step], he has become quite the little killer!

He loves that mouse! Carries it around by the tail [and it gets under his feet and trips him up].

The two people who were thinking of taking him have since backed out now that his is getting closer to a time when he could leave us.

Isn't he a cutey?

He is so little and so cute....I am afraid we are falling in love with little Boris [as in Karloff....but sometimes as in Badenov ....you know from Bullwinkle ....and cause he is a sometime BAD-E-NUF!] Yes something that little and adorable can still be bad :)

He Wants Out!

We are keeping Boris away from the other cats [and they don't like being penned out of THEIR living room [we have 3 other cats all around 12 years old --- they do not much like a newbie in the house!]

We are keeping them separate until he is old enough for his first vet visit, shots and blood work. We don't want to give the old ones anything.

He is still sleeping in his crate and we watch him closely in the living room, but have needed to block it off from the rest of the house.

Babies First Pictures

We have made the mistake of naming him --- Boris.
Here are a few pictures of him [he hated the grass so we had to put a towel down...

He was so little there that hardly any sound would come out when he mewed.

How old?

We needed to figure out how old he was. According to the references I was using he would have been around 4 weeks old [he was close to a pound when we weighed him], but I think it was more like three weeks old [he was just so tiny and still needed us to help with everything! --- I do mean everything.]

He is doing great. Eating off the bottle just fine. He actually seems to enjoy the KMR. Luckily I have a roommate who is off work and can take care of him and make sure he gets his regular feedings. [Although I don't think work would mind him in his crate.]

What Now?

The biggest challenge was knowing what to do next. I turned to a yahoo group called Cats and Kittens Discussion Group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catsandkittens/

They pointed me to a great reference on kitten rescue

http://www.kittenrescue.org/

At least now I knew what to feed the little guy [they also helped with sexxing the kitten so I now know it is a boy].

We have called the rescue groups in the are and they are all full. So it is up to us to take care of him until he can be adopted [two people have shown interest].

New Kitten Arrives

My neighbor scooped up a ktten from a house he was cleaning out. He's girlfriend's family would not keep it [their rottweiler wanted to eat it and their granddaughter is too young to understand how to be nice to a kitty].

He was going to take it to the Humane Society, I feared for the kitten at the Humane Society since I knew it would require hand feeding and other special needs until it it old enough to adopt. And I knew they would just put it down.

So we took it in.