Adorable! I love the little milk covered face!
Ahh…I want a kitten. Until I think of climbing my legs, and scratching and trying to suck on my earlobes at night. Then I’m happy with my four cats.
PapSett - Have you had Macee to the vet yet? What’s the vet say?
StG
Is that what’s going on in the first link? LittleFighter being born? :eek:
Awwwww … she’s a cutie-bug. 
Yes, that was taken right after she was born - Maddie popped that little one out (on my bed!) so quickly and quietly that I never even realized she was in labor - and I thought I was keeping a close eye on her for signs!
I wish the rest of her labor had been so quick and easy, but it was not to be… 
But at least her legacy lives on!
i think banshee is a great name. they are amazingly loud when they are very wee and hungry.
i’m so glad to hear she is doing so very well.
Just wait til she’s on solids.
I want those things (well, at least the leg climbing and earlobe suckling). But then I think of how Luna would react to another cat being brought into her well-ordered domain, probably by peeing on our stuff, and I realize I can’t have another cat.
Look at that fat little tummy!
Banshee sounds like a good name for her.
So cute! What a fuzzy little sweetheart she is!
I also liked the picture of Maddie with her baby - what a pretty cat she was! She had a very friendly and sweet face. Banshee looks like she might take after her mom in looks, too.
Glad to hear that she’s doing so well. I read somewhere that the first kitten that gets born in a litter is often the biggest and healthiest one, due to the placement of the placenta (more bloodflow) and I wonder if that played in Banshee’s favor.
Iz kitteh!!! Winz!
little Banshee is almost 3 and a half weeks old now. My sleep schedule is almost back to normal! She sleeps longer, and has gone as long as 7 hours between feedings. She eats faster now and fills her little belly up quicker - more awake time is spent crawling about on the floor and exploring…every once in a while she manages to lift her little butt and her little milk belly up and actually take some steps on her back feet instead of her elbows! 
I have already made her a little litterbox, a lid from a cardboard box filled with plain clay litter. I didn’t expect her to use it yet, but wanted to get her to associate the litter with elimination, so I would put her in it, while wiping her little bottom to encourage her to pee. Much to my surprise, she finds it fascinating and the day after I started to doing that, she went into the box on her own and promptly produced a little poop! I thought it was just a fluke but she has done it a couple of times since - I am encouraged!
I have heard that bottle fed kittens can be weaned earlier than their mothered counterparts, so today I mixed up some canned Wellness kitten food with her KMR to make a little gruel. She has no interest in it yet (other than to walk through it!), but I now dip the bottle nipple into this gruel before feeding her, so she will start to recognize it as food. At least now, when she does take an interest, the taste and smell will mean ‘food’ to her!
Thanks again to all of you for all the ‘good vibes’ you have been sending out to the little scrap! I will upload a few more photos of her with her eyes open as soon as I can…
Thank you so much for the progress reports - it makes my day to hear how she’s doing.
Aww, so happy to hear the continued good news! Can’t wait to see the pics.
Me, too. At first I’d open the thread with trepidation when it bubbled back up after an update, but now, it’s pretty much sure to make my day. Sounds like OP has a new best friend. . .
How about “Bansheeofthefields”?
So glad to hear she’s continuing to do well!
Ditto! So glad she is doing well :)
yeah, this pretty much reflects my own feeling every day - I would wake up and think, ‘is she still alive? is she okay?’ and every day, she would wake up squalling! So…now, I’ve become a little more confident! sure hope this continues…
My kids have been funny. My daughter has told me from day one - ‘you’re keeping her - if she survives, you have to keep her!’ I tell her, ‘I dunno…I really can’t afford another pet…I may have to find her a home…’ And my son (who brought me Maddie when she herself was just a kitten - and is now serving in Afghanistan) says ‘I’ll take her! I don’t care if (GF) is allergic! She can take a pill - I want kitty!’ My son has always been a ‘cat person’ - I even have a pic of him at nine months old, sharing a bagel that he’d been teething on, with a kitten. Actually both my kids have always been more oriented to cats than dogs, although I have had both.
So…I have an old dog crate in the garage, a big one since I used to have a boxer! I have been thinking that I should dig this out, wash it and use this for the ‘kitty containment center’. That way, I can put her litter box in with her and she will be safe enough that I can let my dog back into my room again, without worrying that the dog may be too rough with her. My dog has been very despondent, since he has not been allowed into my room since kitty was born, and he used to be with me always! Now, he just lays in the hall outside the closed door to my room, all mournful and depressed…
You may have to wait until she’s a bit bigger to use the crate; she probably could go right between the wires of a crate right now. And if she can, she WILL…
Aww, poor poochie. We did something very similar with a dog crate - even poked two holes in an old Tupperware container so we could clip it to the site for a water bowl (cuts down on spills/tracked litter). It works very well, but be sure Banshee is big enough so she can’t get her head stuck.
I’d be happy to donate towards her spay fund for when she’s old enough.
StG