Butterscotch
I thought I would do a separate post for Butterscotch even though we got our new cat on the March Break. March 13th.
For the past 6 months we have missed our dear Tinkerbelle so much, so we decided that durning March Break we would get a new cat.
On the first weekend of the March Break we went to Listowel on the Sunday to celebrate Hadley's birthday with my dad. She was turning 10, and he will be 60 on April 6th. So with my sister's busy schedule we decided to celebrate them together. Then we slept over at Brian's mom's house, had a wee celebration for Hadley with gifts and singing and such only to head out to our friend Shawn's parents farm who a few weeks earlier we had made arrangements to get a barn cat from them.
She is perfect. Calm, cuddly, gives you space, and yet loves to be in the same room as you.
When we got her, we literally took her directly to the vet in Listowel to give her a once over. She was dewormed, de-flea'd, and... well that was it because the rest of her exam showed that she was in fact PREGNANT. To be honest we don't actually mind, but after this litter she will be chipped, spayed and get her shots. :)
I kinda love that the kids will get to experience this.
She doesn't really climb where she isn't supposed to but that could be because of the babies in her belly. She is approximately 3 years old and has had one litter before.
A cat's gestation period is just over 60 days, so without paying for an ultrasound, it meant that the vet was pretty sure she was more than halfway through her pregnancy since she could tell without such devices. :)
However, we were lucky enough to have a co-op student at the vets so they used the ultrasound on her anyway to check for heart beats, but they didn't give us any more information (how many etc) other than they seemed healthy at this point.
And once again, we are a cat family.