Slightly less good news: Albus had blood in his pee again, AND he peed on my blanket. Sigh. Neither of those things is a good sign. Peeing outside of the box means he is associating the litter box with pain. I'm hoping the blood just means the medication needs more time to do its job. He's still eating and drinking and fighting with his brothers and bein' cute, so we'll see how things are tomorrow.

I'm more worried about his health than my blanket, of course, but he needs to learn to only go in the litter box. I tried to put him in the cage until he went in the box, but he just looked SO SAD at being alone in there that I took pity and let him out. :( (He was like "Don't... don't you like me??" *HUGE KITTEN EYES* *tiny, pitiful mew* and I was like I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON.)

I feel silly now for getting my hopes up that he was completely fine. But we'll see what happens tomorrow. In retrospect I'm glad these kids weren't my first litter--I don't know how well I would have coped. Oliver and Ramona just had colds, and the worst health problem I had to deal with was when Ramona got diarrhea from the antibiotics.

Sometimes, though, I think about how sick Oliver was on the first day I got him, how he had sounds of congestion in his lungs when he breathed, how tiny he was, and how long it took him to recover, and I wonder if he was maybe closer to the edge than I realized. Their little bodies are so fragile. I'm so glad he got healthy, because he is the sweetest kitten ever, and is probably making some family very happy right now.

These kitties are so sweet, they're so easy to take care of besides the health problems. They're not very bitey or scratchy to people and they don't want to chew on cords as much as Oliver & Ramona did. They mostly wrestle each other and then they want to come sleep on me. I took a nap while I was in their room and I woke up with a line of three kittens snuggled up against me. ♥.

By the way, if you have kittens? I bought one of these pop-up play cubes for them, and they LOVE IT. It's not very structurally sound--it keeps threatening to collapse on itself--but the kittens don't care, they are ALL OVER that thing. Even when it's all squashed and misshapen, they love it. Sometimes they even sleep in it.

I want to get a cat tree for them, since there aren't a lot of good climbing opportunities in my room besides my bed (which they are still kind of daunted by, especially the "climbing down" part), but they're so expensive, even the simple ones. I want one with multiple "shelves" so that multiple kittens can be on it at once, but I'm so broke right now. *opens wallet* *moths fly out*

I tried to rig up some kind of hammock inside their cage using a pillow case and lots of string, but it ended up being more of a canopy above their sleeping-place. I need something sturdier that will take their weight. I hate that Midwest, the maker of the cage, doesn't sell cat shelves individually anymore.

Thanks for everybody's comments about Zippy and about the other kitties. They do help. *hugs all*