Originally Posted by
Silverfoxkit
Thanks Akoue! I have to say after simon's post I was beginning to second guess myself. I didn't want Olly to bond to his brother instead of me. I'm already his favorite. He prefers to climb onto my chest to go to sleep and you can hear him purr half way across a room. I would like for him to sleep with us one day, but I fear he is still too small right now. Our bed is supported on a large wooden frame raised about 3 feet off of the ground and I don't want him to fall or jump off. There's no easy way up or down for him.
Headbutting is actually how Hefty suckered up in! We were at the humane society and I was looking at a pretty she-cat when my husband pointed out Hefty and said "Aw, look how fat he is." so we went to visit him and since they said it was okay we opened his cage door to pet him and he immediately headbutted me on the cheek and quickly won me over. He's lost some weight since we got him, now he's only 14 lbs, but he's still a big boy!
Olly is on canned food right now. He gets fed a small bit every 4-5 hours since he never eats much at one time, and Hefty gets any that leftover, which suits him just fine. Normally he wouldn't eat the flavors he has been (he doesn't like fish anything strangely, and hates tuna) but since it was someone else's I guess it makes the taste better. I've also been giving Olly a small portion of kitten milk a day, since if he was with mom he'd still be drinking a little. Since I started with that he seems to have more energy. Is that okay? I'm such a worry wart! I just don't want to do anything wrong! The last two time I've had kittens they were orphan litters and I bottled raised them but due to where I lived I couldn't keep them. I wasn't suppose to have them at all, but what am I suppose to do? Leave them in the cactus bush motherless to starve? Maybe be picked off by something else first? No way! I think the last litter was seven or eight years ago. Its amazing to see how big the little runt of that litter got! My aunt took him and wow! He makes Hefty look like Olly! Not only is he built bigger but he's 25 lbs!!!