Kitten update

The unnamed bunchkin | Canon 10D, 28-105mm It's been a sad week in kitty land. On Tuesday, we lost the little black kitty. Turns out he had a severely deformed face - only one nostril, one eye and a cleft palatte. He wasn't able to drink milk from the mom and he didn't want to take a bottle. Rather than let him die slowly from malnutrition and dehydration, MEOW asked us to take him to Rose Hill Animal Hospital to be put to sleep. I cried, even though we'd only had him for four days. On the upside, the one remaining kitten (pictured) seems really healthy. It is gaining weight steadily (it weighs 118 grams this morning!), and is very vocal. Its ears have started to come forward and he can crawl around with his belly off the ground - a big step in kitten development. We've installed a heating pad in the box, so the kitten can have somewhere warm to curl up when Jet is out of the box. It's not easy being a kitten without any friends.

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