Kitten Season!
The kittens are here! I thought I'd share our first babies of the year with you!
This is Venice. I named her something Italian after her beautiful marbling. She's a gorgeous classic tabby with tortie-red swirls. Her four babies are Rome (the tabby boy), Pisa, Naples and Florence. I went to animal control to pick up the next cat, who was very pregnant and they wanted to get into foster care before she delivered and I found Venice and her babies and couldn't leave them there. The babies are about 2 weeks old now and mama is very petite, sweet and friendly! All five should be easy to adopt out! She has 3 girls and a boy, 2 calicos, a tabby and a tabby with white. (don't forget that you can click on the pictures to make them bigger)
This is the calico that I went to get for one of our other foster moms. She's really pretty, her back is almost all orange and she is super friendly! We teased her foster mom that that gorgeous cat would have black babies (the hardest color to adopt) and she did! At least some have white feet which makes them easier. This mama had six babies, but one was extremely small and another one also didn't make it, so she's the proud and devoted mama to 4 of her own and she has accepted 3 orphans!
Things don't always go well with pregnancy and we've learned that this year in a big way. We were due to get 2 pregnant moms and the day before one went into labor and lost her whole litter. Yesterday her sister delivered kittens and cleaned them off, but refused to care for them. Those are the three that the calico mom is raising. There are 2 greys and a black in that bunch. We also took another pregnant cat that was in distress and she ended up needing an emergeny C-section, but the babies were too premature to survive. Mom also had an infection in her uterus and would have died without help. Further testing showed that she had toxoplasmosis and that's why things ended badly for her pregnancy.
But never fear, the crazy cat ladies are taking in another pregnant mother today and hoping for the best!
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