I am so far behind on this blog!!! The last post I had was three weeks ago, and that was the day after we brought Coala home. She is such a doll, but more on her later! On Tuesday, May 1, Kitty had five kittens, two male and three female!
Kitty wanted in the house and wouldn't leave me alone around 2PM. I put her in her box she likes and whenever she moved around I could see wet spots on the towels. Her water had broke and I called my mom. My mom said it could takes hours for Kitty to deliver since this was her first litter. I left Kitty in the basement where she was purring contently and went outside to do some yard work. When I went down to the basement a couple of hours later to check on her, I heard little mews coming from somewhere. I started calling Kitty who had a very low, guttural growl. She came up behind me and started rubbing against my legs. She was a mess! She was soaked and looked completely disheveled. I followed the sounds of the mews and found three kittens back behind our hot water tank. Kitty wouldn't go to them, so all I could do was put her in her box and hope she would know to move them with her. I went back upstairs and my heart was pounding thinking Kitty was going to abandon the kittens. I went back down and Kitty was in her box without the kittens. I grabbed a towel and picked up the kittens and moved them into the box with Kitty. I pet Kitty and she purred then growled once and the next thing I knew, a little purplish red sac appeared. She licked the sac profusely and a baby black kitten fell out. I was in awe. Of course I was texting all of my friends that we now had four kittens! I sat with Kitty while she cleaned up the newest kitten and the others started nursing. Within fifteen minutes another sac appeared and Kitty began cleaning the last kitten off. Five kittens!!! Kitty cleaned all the kittens up and let them all begin nursing.
After about a week I began touching the kittens. Kitty let me hold them
without hesitation and I decided to name them after spices!
Jasmine is by far the smallest. All of the other kittens are crawling around and she doesn't yet. She also doesn't have a solid meow, it's more of a mew. All of the kittens have homes, except for the gray male Pepper. If anyone wants a kitten, let me know! There is no way we can keep him with Ryan's allergies. Kitty is bad enough!!
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| Jasmine- female (the runt) |
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| Pepper and Paprika, male and female |
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| Wasabi- Male |
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| Basil- Female |
As if things weren't crazy enough, a week ago my dad called and asked if I wanted a kitten. I thought he was surely joking, but he showed up holding a little male about 1 1/2 weeks older than Kitty's kittens. My parents were walking up to our house and heard something screaming in the field. My mom walked through the briars and about 10 feet off the road was a little kitten crying in a puddle of water. We decided to see if Kitty would accept him and she licked him off and laid down around him so he could nurse. So now we have six kittens!! I couldn't think of a name for him but when I saw him climbing the concrete wall in the basement trying to get out of the area we made for the kittens, it was clear. I told Ryan we should call him Spiderman and we named him Spidey.
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| Spidey- Male |
I am obsessed with Spidey. He is the sweetest kitten! I saw him using the litter box and he just bobbles around. He wants to be held a lot and he is eating wet kitten food. I think Spidey is extremely lucky to be here with us. He definitely wouldn't have survived out in the field by himself. My best friend is planning on giving Spidey a forever home :o)
As for my excuse for not updating recently...they say a picture is worth a thousand words...
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| How can I get work done with this?! |
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