Our homestead extended by four more furry members around twenty days ago, there has been no update since then. They primarily only slept, and Tziki would only come out of the shelter if she was hungry, then she would go back as fast as possible and stay with her kittens until the next meal.
After a week in the basket I had provided for her, she made the decision to find a safer spot for her babies, found her in the midst of the transfer one morning.
Hilariously funny scene, while the three kittens were already settled in a place unknown to me (until I discovered it), there was one left, the fattest of them all, sitting and meowing (if I can call that meow at all, it sounded more like squeaking) in the basket, she struggled to wrap her teeth around his neck, as cats usually do with their kittens, a few steps away and then she would drop it.
This is the fatty guy, two weeks ago, I helped her with.
(photos are made today, they finally saw the light of day)
In the meantime, I was away for the whole week, and just the day before I left for the trip, something happened that really shook me - Tziki injured her eye.
Hordeum murinum somehow managed to stick in her left eye, at first I thought she got herself into fight with males, as we saw few scenarios of her furiously chasing them away. The poor thing obviously looked disoriented as she walked.
My heart broke and I felt seriously worried, vet unfortunately wasn't an option (our car is dead, we have no box for transport to use public transportation, I had to travel tomorrow morning).
Mom advice was to try out with tweezers because you could see it sticking out in the corner of eye, she would never let me do that nor stay calm as she even avoided to allow that side to be petted.
Then my mother comforted me that it would be fixed, in time the foreign body would be expelled through the discharge.
Of course, I was still usurped by the very fact that it happened. I remember when we had a Cocker Spaniel, as soon as this grass season started, it would regularly have them stuck all over her stomach.
(it was much easier to remove and disinfect then this case)
blue-eyed shaggy fur - the loudest of them all and most courageous.
I left her in a very bad mood, she didn't cuddle, she hardly went out to get food, she spent almost all her time lying in the box with the babies and I cried, all time I spent away.
Dear darling was updating me on daily base, telling that she is trying to scratch it out with her paw, she started eating more and getting out lazying on the sun.
By the time I got back, her eye was open with visible traces of roughness, the redness is noticeable, but the reflexes are working fine, the eye moves - huh, what a relief, nothing is damaged. She is happy, jumping and chasing herself around the yard as she did before an accident.
Kittens are safe and sound, much bigger than when I saw them last time, they started playing and nibbling each other, they are the cutest when they stretch and yawn. Their muzzles are mostly dirty from sniffing around in the box, which I had to clean over time, because there were all kinds of godknowswhat things inside.
Didn't want to bother them nor her a lot with camera, as they are real squeaking alarm and she is still seriously caring mom who runs asap to check on what is happening.
Take care of your loved pets, especially during summer time, lot's of nasty dry weeds are lurking around looking for their next victim.