Mama Cat’s Kittens

Mama Cat is about to give birth any day now, if she hasn’t already. I haven’t seen her in a couple of days and I suspect it’s because she’s hiding somewhere with her newborns. But who knows, maybe I’ll see her tomorrow morning, still very pregnant. The plan is that after she weans this new litter, I’m going to get her fixed in order to break the cycle of pregnancy after pregnancy. She’s a tiny little cat. I’m sure she started breeding too early in life and never got a chance to finish growing up. She has rather large ears for her body size—perhaps she never quite grew into them.

In the meantime, however, I need to finish “taming” the litter that she had back in March, who are almost 5 months old. I have only one more to make contact with, and after that I can try to give them away. I’m a little afraid of giving the others away before I make contact with that fourth kitten. I feel that if she sees that I’m taking away her siblings, she might never trust me. I need her to trust me as much as the others do. Her siblings let me not only pet them, but also pick them up and play with them. They also enjoy pouncing on my fingers and toes, and often rub against me. The shy kitten has been coming a lot closer to me in the past couple of days, but I have yet to touch her. I think I’m making progress, though.

The kittens are very cute and they are especially adorable when they wrestle with each other. They are so close to one another that I really wish I didn’t have to separate them. It would be ideal if I could find two people both interested in taking two kittens, so at least they would have one of their siblings to continue to grow up with. That would also ensure that they always had a playmate, even when their owners were out of the house. But I don’t know what the likelihood is of finding people who want two new cats. I can always try.

I finally took some pictures of the kittens the other day and wanted to share them. It was hard to get good shots of them because, being kittens, they couldn’t sit still for more than a few seconds here and there. But I did somehow manage to get a few good ones, and I've spread them out throughout this post. I'm going to miss these kittens when I find homes for them, but I will also be relieved to know that they will have better homes than I can provide for them out in the parking lot.