Chin Chin & Friends

Chin Chin & Friends These five babies were born to a couple of lucky yard cats who were brought in last fall by an elderly gentleman who fed them all summer, then, when the weather turned cold, he brought them in to share his house with them. Unfortunately, he knew nothing of TNR, and, about a month ago these five little ones were born. Fortunately, his niece did some research and within the month his two house ferals will be spayed and neutered. These five little ones are in a wonderful foster home where they're getting lots of love, attention and therapy. They are special needs kitties. They have cerebellar hypoplasia. Amazingly enough, we've gotten 2 litters so far, both from different sources, both CH babies. So we've done some research talked to our vet, talked to Treehouse, who's had quite a few CH babies. Cerebellar hypoplasia causes jerky movements, tremors and generally uncoordinated movement . The animal often falls down and has trouble walking. Tremors increase when the animal is excited and subside when at ease.

The disease does not get better or worse with age, but the cat or dog can usually learn to somewhat compensate for it and should have a normal lifespan. Most afflicted animals can lead a fairly normal life if special considerations for the animal's disability are taken by the pet's owner. It's our understanding that they're more suseptible to infection like URI's and such so we're sure to give them our usual regiment of immune boosting supplements and good food to assure the best possible health now and long term.

We've listed the litter on petfinder.com, they aren't ready for adoption but we wanted to see what kind of response we might get and we've received several calls from people aware of CH and interested in adopting them. They won't be ready for adoption for about 6 week but it's nice to know there are people who care.

While our other babies act like they are walking over logs, these babies back legs splay out - especially Bunny, the one with orange and grey markings. They're all doing great. They play and run and climb - they don't know they're special needs!