Kitty Pourin’
When it rains it pours and this week our back yard was pouring kitties. Both Marmalade and her 1 year old, who I will call unsub, have had successful litters. We didn’t know how successful until yesterday and it presents us with a problem.
About 2 weeks ago Marmalade ‘s new litter showed up at our back door. There were 3 kittens only 2 of them healthy. Those 2 are growing and we only see them sporadically
Then on Tuesday morning unsub was lying outside our backdoor nursing a little seal point kitten. This was the first we knew that she had a litter and now we were looking at 3 new cats in the yard. That evening there was a little flame point kitten looking in at us. It dashed away and I followed it outside only to find 2 little flame points running across the yard. Now we knew unsub had 3 kittens and we were looking at 5 new cats.
To my surprise this morning (Thursday) unsub and 4 kittens are outside the door. The new kitten is all black.. Now the count is at 5 new kittens. I sure hope that’s the last. (If my Dad were with us this would remind him of the joke that has the punch line “Do you think it’s the light that’s attracting them doctor?”)
My automatic feeder obviously has made the cats too comfortable. We are presented with the dilemma of what to do. We can’t afford to have them all fixed - assuming I could catch them. We can’t stop feeding, can we? If I can catch them and bring them to Gainesville we could get them fixed for free – or basically travel expense and imposition on Christy.
So we mull over our options.
When it rains it pours and this week our back yard was pouring kitties. Both Marmalade and her 1 year old, who I will call unsub, have had successful litters. We didn’t know how successful until yesterday and it presents us with a problem.
About 2 weeks ago Marmalade ‘s new litter showed up at our back door. There were 3 kittens only 2 of them healthy. Those 2 are growing and we only see them sporadically
Then on Tuesday morning unsub was lying outside our backdoor nursing a little seal point kitten. This was the first we knew that she had a litter and now we were looking at 3 new cats in the yard. That evening there was a little flame point kitten looking in at us. It dashed away and I followed it outside only to find 2 little flame points running across the yard. Now we knew unsub had 3 kittens and we were looking at 5 new cats.
To my surprise this morning (Thursday) unsub and 4 kittens are outside the door. The new kitten is all black.. Now the count is at 5 new kittens. I sure hope that’s the last. (If my Dad were with us this would remind him of the joke that has the punch line “Do you think it’s the light that’s attracting them doctor?”)
My automatic feeder obviously has made the cats too comfortable. We are presented with the dilemma of what to do. We can’t afford to have them all fixed - assuming I could catch them. We can’t stop feeding, can we? If I can catch them and bring them to Gainesville we could get them fixed for free – or basically travel expense and imposition on Christy.
So we mull over our options.
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