Bethany's Checkup

There's Bethany waiting patiently for the doctors up at CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital to come in and examine her. She was so good. As long as needles aren't involved, she's pretty reasonable (for a tortie - they have a reputation).

Everything went well. The pacemaker is looking good and we have to go back in another year to check battery life and its function. It has a "memory" and they can tell how hard it's been working. Basically, it's working 100% of the time! Which means, if it malfunctions, it's bye bye Bethany. Which is scary and amazing at the same time. Scary because I could walk in and find her dead any day it decides to stop working, and amazing because the thing is keeping her alive and her own heart just doesn't work at all. That's insane to me!

But she should have 3 years left on the battery life and so I hopefully won't have to worry anytime soon.

Foster Babies!

Here are the 2 new foster kittens. I decided to name them after CO Avalanche players to commemorate us making it to the playoffs (although today they didn't do so well). So the boy is named Marek (after M. Svatos) and the girl is Milan (after M. Hejduk). They are about 6 weeks old and were hissy/spitty the first 2 days. Now they are playing and acting pretty good around me. They still hiss occasionally, but for the most part, they are used to me. This is such a fun thing to do. I just love watching them come out of their shells and watching them play. Kittens are hilarious. But I just don't know that I'll ever have one as my own. They are crazy and get into things way too much. I would have to unplug everything in my house if I had one of these roaming free. I'm always surprised that we don't see more electrocuted kittens at the hospital since my fosters always seem to chew on the cords in that room (hence why I have nothing electric in there).

I am also dog sitting for a friend, so my house is pretty crazy right now! Luckily everyone is easy. The dog (Zoe) fits in really well to the routine and the kittens basically just need to be fed and held throughout the day. Eventually I'll try to get them used to the dogs. Pacey is scared of kittens because they hiss at him and then he runs away! Greta loves them. Sometimes I worry since she loves to chase squirrels, but she's usually pretty good. She let some of them try to nurse on her in the past! She just looked at me like, "what the heck are they doing to me, Mom?"

Time to catch up on my tv shows I've been taping throughout the week. There's just not enough time for me to keep up!

Things have been good lately. I went up to Vail for their closing weekend. They had a lot going on and a few friends of mine stayed up there. I stayed in Frisco so I could bring some of the animals, but it was only a half hour away. On Saturday night, Ben Harper played in an outdoor concert! Luckily it wasn't too cold and huddling in a crowd of people kept us all warm! Then on Sunday we went snowboarding and even though I wore sunscreen, I still got burned on my nose. That's high altitude for you. It was a beautiful day.

I get 2 new wild foster kittens today. They arrived at the hospital last night but we didn't have time to examine them. But they are cute little fluff-balls! I can't wait to turn these ones around too. It's a good feeling taking little hissing/spitting kittens and taming them, then seeing them go off to a good home. Very satisfying! My last ones all found homes really quickly.

Remember the whole Bethany fiasco? About a year ago she put me through a lot of stress and had to get a pacemaker? Well she goes back up to CSU for her 1 year checkup next Monday! I can't believe it's been a year, and I can't believe what a difference it's made! She's still acting like a kitten again. I will post about her visit next week. Hope everyone did something green yesterday!