Here's a fun sentence: since i got laid off, i've been able to fulfill one of my longtime dreams. Fostering kittens! I've always wanted to, but (depending on age) they need to be weighed and fed like 4 times a day. So it can be challenging to foster if you have to go into an office, even one day a week like at my previous job. But now, between filling out job applications and going on interviews, i'm raising America's next generation of purrfect little fur beasts!
Say hello to the J28 litter! Meet (in alphabetical order) Jack, Jack O Lantern, Jackson, Jemima, Jerome, and Jezebel! This' only my second time fostering kittens, so the good people at Austin Pets Alive! only saddled me with two of these sweet baby angles--Jezebel (whom i'm calling Lil) and Jack O Lantern (whom i'm calling Loop).
These nicknames came about because i've named all my cats after sub shops: Blimpie, HoneyLightning ThunderCloud, and Tucci. Loop & Lil's is a pizzeria that my friend, Kasha recently took me to in Lockhart. They serve grinders and subs though, so it counts!
Loop and Lil were 7 weeks old when i picked them up, which means they need to be fed and weighed about 3 to 5 times daily. The shelter sent them home with Daily Care Sheets that had their weight log to date. I used this to make my own digital version!
Part of my goal when fostering is to get the kittens to gain 5% of their body weight each day, so i added a column for this. Once they've consecutively gained 5% body weight for 5 days, they can go down to being weighed just twice daily. So the violet-shaded gains are day 1 of hitting that goal.
I wanted to see how often the shelter had been weighing the kittens, so i used the following formula: (last weigh time - first weigh time) / (number of weighings - 1) = 6.72 hours between weighings. By iteratively adding that amount to the last weigh time, i can populate my chart with future weigh times.
When i got the kittens, they were on dosages of .05 and .08 cc's of doxy. Since their weight is steadily increasing, i've used the MAX() function to find their high weight out of each column, and multiply the ratio of that over the weight at which i picked them up to get their current dosages--.09 and .06 cc's.
It's suggested that i feed the kittens 5% of their body weight at each feeding. At 4 feedings a day, that's 20% of their body weight daily. I used the MAX() function again to calculate and add 20% of each of their body weights, then i divided that by the weight of a can of cat food to know how many cans i need to keep stocked in their room: currently 1.61 cans per day.
And now the fun part--the graph! They need to hit 2 pounds (907 grams) before they can be fixed. And i've to schedule the surgeries like as early as possible to reserve my spot. So i've made a li'l chart to predict their weights!
I added gridlines for each day, and now i can see roughly when they'll hit their surgery weight!
Say hello to the J28 litter! Meet (in alphabetical order) Jack, Jack O Lantern, Jackson, Jemima, Jerome, and Jezebel! This' only my second time fostering kittens, so the good people at Austin Pets Alive! only saddled me with two of these sweet baby angles--Jezebel (whom i'm calling Lil) and Jack O Lantern (whom i'm calling Loop).
These nicknames came about because i've named all my cats after sub shops: Blimpie, HoneyLightning ThunderCloud, and Tucci. Loop & Lil's is a pizzeria that my friend, Kasha recently took me to in Lockhart. They serve grinders and subs though, so it counts!
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| Lil! |
Loop and Lil were 7 weeks old when i picked them up, which means they need to be fed and weighed about 3 to 5 times daily. The shelter sent them home with Daily Care Sheets that had their weight log to date. I used this to make my own digital version!
Part of my goal when fostering is to get the kittens to gain 5% of their body weight each day, so i added a column for this. Once they've consecutively gained 5% body weight for 5 days, they can go down to being weighed just twice daily. So the violet-shaded gains are day 1 of hitting that goal.
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| Loop! |
I wanted to see how often the shelter had been weighing the kittens, so i used the following formula: (last weigh time - first weigh time) / (number of weighings - 1) = 6.72 hours between weighings. By iteratively adding that amount to the last weigh time, i can populate my chart with future weigh times.
Here we have the shelter's weigh-ins, mine, and a day's worth of future scheduled weight times. You'll also see the doxycyline dosing times. By using the TIMEVALUE() function, i can pull the time out of each dosage date and average these to come up with the suggested dosing time: 3:41 PM.
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| Sleepy babies have a heating pad in there! |
When i got the kittens, they were on dosages of .05 and .08 cc's of doxy. Since their weight is steadily increasing, i've used the MAX() function to find their high weight out of each column, and multiply the ratio of that over the weight at which i picked them up to get their current dosages--.09 and .06 cc's.
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| They like to climb around my face. |
It's suggested that i feed the kittens 5% of their body weight at each feeding. At 4 feedings a day, that's 20% of their body weight daily. I used the MAX() function again to calculate and add 20% of each of their body weights, then i divided that by the weight of a can of cat food to know how many cans i need to keep stocked in their room: currently 1.61 cans per day.
And now the fun part--the graph! They need to hit 2 pounds (907 grams) before they can be fixed. And i've to schedule the surgeries like as early as possible to reserve my spot. So i've made a li'l chart to predict their weights!
I added gridlines for each day, and now i can see roughly when they'll hit their surgery weight!
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