Last kitten update

 We had an appointment for Saturday at 11 to bring Stripe and Scamper to the adoption assessment person.

I mistakenly scheduled the groceries to be delivered at the same time.  When I realized it, and tried to change the time, I discovered that the time CAN'T be changed, once scheduled.  

I can modify anything else about my order, for several hours after I click "submit," just not the delivery time.

On the night before their appointment, I sat outside with them for quite a while. Stripe kept getting into my lap, and Scamper looked like she was thinking about it, but never quite accomplished the feat. 

In the morning, I helped capture the kittens. In fact, I picked Scamper up, for the first time, to put her into the carrier.  She was totally calm about that process.

We had to wrangle them a bit earlier than we wanted to, though (because they were wandering), so they had to sit in the carrier for about 45 minutes. 

Scamper was fine with it, but I was afraid Stripe would hurt herself in her panic to get out, so I sat outside with them.

That kept them calm, and they appeared to be listening to me.

I cried when Dave left with them.

All went well at the assessment, until it was time for Scamper to get her microchip implant.  

This was done outside of Dave's view, and Stripe did just fine, but Scamper, afraid of the tech she had never met before, attacked the tech when she tried to get Scamper out of the carrier.

There was blood on Scamper's chest.... 

SO.... she was rejected from the program at the last moment.  

After months of our diligent care and socializing, one moment of fear has ruined her chance of being adopted.

(you may recall, gentle readers, that this was the ONLY program we could find that was even able to consider taking any of the kittens)

Scamper is back in our yard, with Sammie.  

Annabel will just have to continue to deal with them being out there all the time.  We've requested an increase in her anti anxiety medication.

Our long worked-for hopes to help her anxiety, by removing the stimuli, have been thwarted. 

Our hearts are broken, as we spent a lot of energy on the hope that ALL of the surviving Kittenea Kittens would find forever homes --SOMEWHERE ELSE!  

It was also to be hoped that Sammie, on her own again, would start to spend some of her time elsewhere, as she did before.

Looks like they're both here to stay, and Annabel will continue to be mostly bald, unless the increased dosage starts to help her stop over grooming.

The great news is that Stripe was easily accepted, and we will go visit her today at the adoption center.

Oh, AND Joe was adopted a couple of days ago!!  Success!

There's not much else to report.  We might get some rain, or light snow, this coming week.  The rain we were supposed to get last week never really materialized.

It rained lightly for about an hour.... but the forecast was that it was to rain all day.  We got about a tenth of an inch, instead of the inch and a half that was predicted.

My supervisor is on vacation, so I can look forward to lots of phone calls and distractions to keep the work week interesting.  When people have questions, and she's not there, they turn to me.

Including the director!

I know NO job is secure, but this does help me to feel a bit more at ease.

Next weekend is a three day weekend, so that will be nice.  I'm hoping to make pork adovada for my friend who was raised in New Mexico, and see how she likes my version.

Have a good week!