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Last Updated: 4/6/08
Photos are listed from oldest to newest.
I took a lot of photos and one movie on the day we got Tinkie on 2/2/08. I was cleaning my
aquariums which is why there are hoses and light fixtures on the ground. The photos make her
look so big but she is tiny.
Tinkie - holding her up
Tinkie - looking upset for some reason (it
only lasted a second but the camera caught it)
Tinkie - looking at the camera
Tinkie - climbing the light fixture for the 50
gallon aquarium
Tinkie - looking at the cat fountain
Tinkie - standing on the hose
Tinkie - standing on the hose
Tinkie - sleeping
Tinkie - sleeping. She crawled up in to the
junk on the shelf and found the very first cat basket I ever had for my first cat Bootsy. The
blue pillow in the basket is newer than that but she decided to sleep there.
Here are three photos from 2/9/08:
Tinkie
Tinkie - playing with the plastic on the
paper towels
Tinkie - looking at the dirty aquarium water
in the bathtub (yes, she eventually jumped in for a swim!)
Tinkie with GK on the couch on
2/16/08.
Tinkie - close-up on 2/16/08.
Tinkie with GK on the couch asleep on
2/16/08.
These photos are from 3/8/08:
Tinkie - coming to get you!
Tinkie - "Hum, what's in there?"
Tinkie - "You are feeling sleepy."
Tinkie - grooming herself
Tinkie on 3/29/08.
Tinkie on 4/1/08.
Videos:
Video - 1759 KB, mpg file - Tinkie on 2/2/08.
On 2/2/08, my mother went to the pet store and adopted a kitten. We named her Tinkerbelle for a few reasons. My niece said a few weeks earlier that we should name a new kitten Tinkerbell. I added the e on the end so it spells "belle" which is French for beautiful (feminine). Her various knicknames might include Tinkie, Tinkus, Tinker, Tinkiebelle, and Belle.
I found her from this Pet Finder ad. Note that it is "Maine Coon" and not "Main Coon." There
was no photo with the ad which I found on Friday, 2/1/08.
"These are four beautiful girls who are part Main Coon. They are 9 weeks old and ready to go.
They were saved from the kill shelter in Baltimore and taken to foster care by a caring person.
They will be ready and available for adoption at [text omitted]. If you want one of these I
suggest you get there at high noon as they won't last long!!! They are beautiful, friendly and
ready to go."
By the time my mother got there are 12:30 pm, only one kitten was left. Tinkie was the runt. My mother saw two other of the kittens who were still there with their new caretakers. Those girls had white paws.
Tinkie looks to me like a silver tabby with medium length hair. The adoption woman insists that she is a brown tabby. Our second cat, Tootsy was a long haired silver tabby. The adoption woman says that Tinkie has been checked out by a vet for various things and is fine but I will get her to the vet early in the week to make sure.
They named this kitten "Hilda." She is super sweet as she was bottle fed and hand raised. She loves to purr, cuddle, and jump around like most kittens. They say her birth date is 11/27/07.
Tinkie is being kept in a bathroom for a week or two for a number of reasons. First, she learns where the litter pan and her stuff is. Second, it gives the other fours cats a chance to get used to her sounds and smells before even attempting to have them meet and hopefully get along. Gino (the only male) is dominant. If he accepts her, she will be fine. If not, ut oh. Time will tell. As I was finishing up this page, Gino saw Tinkie for the first time. His eyes went as big as saucers. He stared for about five minutes. Then, the biggest hiss ever came from him. So far, not so good. Later, all the cats would get a chance to hiss at her.
Tinkie had really runny, yellow diarrhea the first few days we had her. She finally got to the vet on 2/5/08. He looked in the fecal float for worms and cocciodiosis (a single celled protozoan that can cause diarrhea). He did not see any but decided since it would not do her any harm to give her de-wormer one more time (the rescuers did it twice before) and also put her on an anti- cocciodiosis medication. She is getting 0.45 mL once a day for 10 days of Albon liquid (not sure of the concentration). Tinkie weighs 1.8 pounds. She got a distemper shot (they gave her one a month before). The rescuers also had her tested for feline leukemia, feline AIDS, and ringworm which were all negative. Her ears are a little waxy but no ear mites.
The vet says she should be spayed in May when around 5 months old and also get a microchip then (so it does not hurt while she is under). Her first rabies shot will be at 4 months old. We go back in a month for another distemper shot.
By 2/7/08, Tinkie's diarrhea was not better. I think she may also have been vomiting. I did not see it but the yellow stuff all over the room looks like at least some of it might be vomit. I decided to try some supplements to get good bacteria and fiber into her gut. I mixed some Metamucil and Pro-Zyme into some plain yogurt. These were very small amounts in a few tablespoons of yogurt. She ate it but she was no better the next day. I called and talked to a different vet at the practice on 2/8/08. She said we could put her on Flagyl (metronidazole). It has the bonus of treating for giardia if she happens to have that. Along with worms and cocciodiosis, it can cause diarrhea in kittens. She got 0.2 mL (from a concentration of 125 mg/mL) once a day of that for a week. She hated it. It made her foam at the mouth immediately. But, it seemed to have worked at first. A day later, she made about three semi-formed feces. I disinfected the bathroom and things seemed cleaner. I let her out of the bathroom the next day. Within a few days, the diarrhea was back.
As of 2/17/08, Tinkie still has diarrhea. I am calling the vet tomorrow for an appointment. I have new knicknames for Tinkie: Tinkus, Tink-less, Tink-lees, Tink-ness.
On 2/16/08, I gave Tinkie some Bene-Bac (which I had been trying to get since I got her) which resulted in a high fever the day after when she just laid around all day. She also started sneezing. By that night, the diarrhea ended. So, when I took her to the vet on 2/18/08, he pronounced her perfectly healthy. Her fever had broken. As of 2/24/08, she has not had diarrhea again. In case it came back or her sneezing got worse, the vet gave me amoxicillin but I never used it. She was up to 2.2 pounds. The vet also gave me WD cans insisted the disgusting stuff would help her. She got better without it but still eats a lot of the dry WD that is out for Gino and Elvisina. I wish she ate the good stuff and not the mix of pig lard, by-products, and corn. When was the last time you saw a house cat hunt down and kill a pig and then eat its lard and then some corn? I so wish they made organic and/or all natural vet diets. Gino and Elvisina have only gotten fatter with duller hair since they went off organic natural food due to health problems.
Tinkie went to the vet on 3/4/08 for her next distemper shot. She was up to 3.1 pounds and is growing so fast.
Tinkie had her next distemper shot and her first rabies shot on 4/1/08. She was up to 4.2 pounds.
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