Growing up Sable

Sable or Li’l Bits (his nickname) has been a part of my life for 2.5 weeks and has been growing by leaps and bounds. Over the past few days, he’s gone from a wobbly walker to a little sprinter. And he has started eating solid foods and started eliminating without any assistance!

From Walking to Climbing to Sprinting

On Thursday evening, he successfully climbed out of his nesting box that was in my bedroom, walked thru the partially-closed bedroom door to the living room where he scared the dickens out of me! Out of corner of my eye, I saw this brown fuzzy thing coming toward me and I almost jumped on the couch until I realized it was Sable. LOL I picked him up, hugged him to my shoulder and told him that he was such a big boy now.

He now follows me wherever I go, sometimes pausing to examine his shadow on the floor or taking a detour to sit between the fridge and the cabinet. There are times when he calls himself running but it actually looks like he’s a little bunny hopping around. It’s quite funny, except when I’m trying to catch him. LOL

Meal Time

Over the past week, Sable has become much more aggressive at formula feeding time, scratching my hands as he attempted to control his bottle. I introduced him to weaning formula, similar to cereal for babies. He refused to lap it up in a saucer, after many attempts but he drank it down when bottle fed.

Last night, I had it with his scratching while bottle feeding. His claws are so sharp, they broke skin. I poured some of his formula from the bottle onto a saucer but he wouldn’t touch it. Instead, he was scratching and hitting the bottle until I bit my lip and bottlefed him.
I woke up this morning, determined to get him to eat out of a saucer. I opened a can of Nature’s Choice chicken and lamb kitten food, put some on a saucer and placed him next to the saucer in a box lid. Sable sniffed it before he started nibbling on the food. I was amazed at how he quickly he took to the food. I put more on the saucer and he ate it up! He refused to drink his water though. I now think that the small bowl of water was too much for him.

This evening, he refused to eat his food, no matter how many times I kept putting him in the box lid in front of his saucer. Finally, I bottle fed him because many hours passed since he last ate and even more hours since his last formula.

Tomorrow I will serve his food in a saucer and place his water in a more shallow bowl. I do hope he takes to the food. I want to wean him from the bottle.

Litter Box Success

Sable has had a few “accidents”. Each time I wipe up his urine, I put the soaked item in his littler box, put him in it to sniff the pee and rub his forepaws in the litter. Instead of using the box for litter, the little dickens uses it to take kitty naps. LOL I tweeted about it tonight because I couldn’t understand it. Well shortly after his bottle, he was placed in his litter box where he scratched the litter before crouching down to pee. I had to keep from yelling “Good boy!” while he was doing the deed. LOL But after he attempted to cover it, I picked him up and praised him.

He’s such a big boy!