Well, only about a month after 3 kittens showed up and started eating at our house, courtesy of their stray mother who doesn't seem to like us humans much yet continues to eat our expensive cat food as though she were entitled to it, another litter arrived via yet another stray who won't let us touch her but eats at our house. There were 4 of these, 3 born in the Igloo pet house under our deck, and the runt born on the other side of the deck and for unknown reasons left there until my father found him and returned him to his mother.
Long story short, I have become a mother. The newest litter's mother is herself only about 6 months old and seems completely bewildered as to how this happened and why those large male cats were chasing her around in the first place. She abandoned two of the kittens, leaving them in the Igloo and moving the other two maybe 20 feet away. My mother and I watched for a while, and when it became clear that she was determined to no longer take care of them, I kidnapped them and have now become their full-time mom. Believe it or not, I am bottle-feeding them kitten formula every 3 hours, even in the middle of the night, soothing their upset stomachs, and letting them poop and pee on me without getting mad. Who would've known motherhood can change you so much?
It's one boy and one girl, both now 4 days old, and I haven't named them yet, as I haven't come up with anything I really like. Right now Flower and Thumper are my best choices, but I figure I have until they're at least a week old to think of something. And even though I don't really enjoy waking myself up to heat a bottle, it's really not as bad as I would have anticipated.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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