Kitten Fix

We finally have kittens in our foster room again, after a long drought. The last two occupants of our foster room were chubby stray female cats with no spay scar. The humane society we foster for has to consider such an animal pregnant. In both these cases, they were not. So no kittens.

Of course it never rains but it pours. Someone brought in two pregnant cats and one with four 2-day old kittens. In the same week my shelter received two more pregnant cats and two pregnant dogs. We'll have a baby boom in no time!

The picture is one of the four, born March 18. The mom cat, I named her Bonnie Doone, is a little shy, loves to be combed, and an excellent mother. Three kittens look like this one, brown tabby, and I think longhairs. The only boy is a buff, probably shorthair.

Every day now they get cuter. Today at 2 weeks, eyes are open and vision is improving; ears are unfolding and hearing is improving; mobility is improving and they stagger around unsteadily. In about 2 weeks, they will be eating on their own and using the litter box.

I love being a foster mom cat.