Friday 22 May 2015
Day of DH 2015
I participated in the 2015 Day of DH and created a blog called DH from a Grad Student's Perspective. Feel free to check it out!
What the heck is a Pudge Blossom?
Tee hee!
Pudge Blossom is the nickname of one of six kittens I watched on a Livestream broadcast from Tiny Kittens. Tiny Kittens is run by a wonderful woman in Langley, British Columbia who fosters cats and kittens via the Langley Animal Protection Society (LAPS). For educational purposes, the Tiny Kittens webcams usually show pregnant momma cats before, during, and after they give birth. Yes - she shows the births live online. And it's not gross, it's rather interesting and emotional.
Several litters ago she had a momma cat names Dorothy who was abandoned by her owners after she got pregnant (although they'd never bothered to get her spayed). Her nice neighbours took her in as it had been their male cat who got her pregnant and they felt bad. However they weren't well off enough to take care of her and her kittens, so they turned her over to LAPS who then gave her to Tiny Kittens to foster. Poor Dorothy had parasites and other health problems due to her previous living conditions, but only some things could be treated before she stopped nursing. But she got what medications she could, and all the food she could eat, and eventually gave birth to six beautiful kittens - 2 all black kittens like her, and 4 floofy grey tabbys like her baby-daddy!
The kittens were named after Wizard of Oz characters - which is also how Dorothy got her name. They were: Henry, Toto, Ozzie, Munchkin, Marvel, and Nikko. Munchkin, aka. Munchie, was the only girl and the smallest out of the bunch. Henry and Toto were two boy tabbys, and Nikko and Ozzie were the two boy black kitties. Marvel was also a boy tabby, but he had a birth defect. He was born with a cleft lip and nose (thankfully not palette) and his nose looks like a butterfly! He had trouble nursing because he wasn't able to get suction around Dorothy's nipple AND fight off his siblings, so Shelly had to bottle feed him the whole time. He was so incredibly adorable - still is - and throughout all that he somehow got the nickname Pudge Blossom, or Blossom of Pudge! So I borrowed the name because it reminds me of an adorable kitten.
The photo below is Marvel, aka. Pudge Blossom, while he was still in foster care. He had his own custom-made football jersey for this photo shoot. This was right around Superbowl time.
Pudge Blossom is the nickname of one of six kittens I watched on a Livestream broadcast from Tiny Kittens. Tiny Kittens is run by a wonderful woman in Langley, British Columbia who fosters cats and kittens via the Langley Animal Protection Society (LAPS). For educational purposes, the Tiny Kittens webcams usually show pregnant momma cats before, during, and after they give birth. Yes - she shows the births live online. And it's not gross, it's rather interesting and emotional.
Several litters ago she had a momma cat names Dorothy who was abandoned by her owners after she got pregnant (although they'd never bothered to get her spayed). Her nice neighbours took her in as it had been their male cat who got her pregnant and they felt bad. However they weren't well off enough to take care of her and her kittens, so they turned her over to LAPS who then gave her to Tiny Kittens to foster. Poor Dorothy had parasites and other health problems due to her previous living conditions, but only some things could be treated before she stopped nursing. But she got what medications she could, and all the food she could eat, and eventually gave birth to six beautiful kittens - 2 all black kittens like her, and 4 floofy grey tabbys like her baby-daddy!
The kittens were named after Wizard of Oz characters - which is also how Dorothy got her name. They were: Henry, Toto, Ozzie, Munchkin, Marvel, and Nikko. Munchkin, aka. Munchie, was the only girl and the smallest out of the bunch. Henry and Toto were two boy tabbys, and Nikko and Ozzie were the two boy black kitties. Marvel was also a boy tabby, but he had a birth defect. He was born with a cleft lip and nose (thankfully not palette) and his nose looks like a butterfly! He had trouble nursing because he wasn't able to get suction around Dorothy's nipple AND fight off his siblings, so Shelly had to bottle feed him the whole time. He was so incredibly adorable - still is - and throughout all that he somehow got the nickname Pudge Blossom, or Blossom of Pudge! So I borrowed the name because it reminds me of an adorable kitten.
The photo below is Marvel, aka. Pudge Blossom, while he was still in foster care. He had his own custom-made football jersey for this photo shoot. This was right around Superbowl time.
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