So the situation is this!
KITTENS :D :D :D
Aight so, at my mum's office a little tortiseshell cat has been visiting, just to lie in the garden, and only recently have we found out that she's a mother! She showed up with her two little white kittens, one girl and one boy, and my mother's been putting out some food and water for the mum to eat. But the kittens have started exploring the food too, aha, putting their little paws in it and whatnot. Aw, bless!
We've called the mother cat Mim, and since one cat has a smudge on her head we've temporarily called her Smudge. The other cat, the boy, Rory has dubbed Hiro. Because it means "white" in Japanese, haha. Anyway, we went to see them today and oh my goodness so cute D:
I'd love to take the whole family home but it's highly impractical. We've got Ash to deal with, this is his home first and foremost, and paying for four cats can get crazy expensive. We're going to let the cats stay with their mother for a while longer, we don't know how old they are and they still seem to be suckling so we shouldn't separate them yet, buttt there has been talk of taking one home.
Smudge seems to be the favourite; she's very curious and friendly whereas Hiro is very skittish and easily frightened. Rory seems to like him, though, and it might be good for Smudge to have another cat her age around the house (Ash is nine, so). There's always the worry that the male cats might fight, BUT if everyone's neutered then there shouldn't be that much of a problem. I've been doing some reading and they say it comes down to the personality of the cat; Ash is docile by nature and little Hiro doesn't seem capable of fighting his own shadow let alone a fully-grown cat.
But even if we end up taking none of them home, we're still going to try to find them other homes. They definitely need a trip to the vet, the kittens have fleas and some kind of crusty nose thing going on, and it would be good to suss their ages. Once they've grown up a bit and we've got them vet-checked, we'll be taking them to the RSPCA. Maybe just Mim, maybe Mim and Hiro, or maybe all three; if we can't take them, we're going to put them somewhere where they get a chance at getting adopted by a loving family because they're all such lovely little cats.
ANYWAY so that's the scoop! Kittens on the horizon! ( Have-a some photos! )
KITTENS :D :D :D
Aight so, at my mum's office a little tortiseshell cat has been visiting, just to lie in the garden, and only recently have we found out that she's a mother! She showed up with her two little white kittens, one girl and one boy, and my mother's been putting out some food and water for the mum to eat. But the kittens have started exploring the food too, aha, putting their little paws in it and whatnot. Aw, bless!
We've called the mother cat Mim, and since one cat has a smudge on her head we've temporarily called her Smudge. The other cat, the boy, Rory has dubbed Hiro. Because it means "white" in Japanese, haha. Anyway, we went to see them today and oh my goodness so cute D:
I'd love to take the whole family home but it's highly impractical. We've got Ash to deal with, this is his home first and foremost, and paying for four cats can get crazy expensive. We're going to let the cats stay with their mother for a while longer, we don't know how old they are and they still seem to be suckling so we shouldn't separate them yet, buttt there has been talk of taking one home.
Smudge seems to be the favourite; she's very curious and friendly whereas Hiro is very skittish and easily frightened. Rory seems to like him, though, and it might be good for Smudge to have another cat her age around the house (Ash is nine, so). There's always the worry that the male cats might fight, BUT if everyone's neutered then there shouldn't be that much of a problem. I've been doing some reading and they say it comes down to the personality of the cat; Ash is docile by nature and little Hiro doesn't seem capable of fighting his own shadow let alone a fully-grown cat.
But even if we end up taking none of them home, we're still going to try to find them other homes. They definitely need a trip to the vet, the kittens have fleas and some kind of crusty nose thing going on, and it would be good to suss their ages. Once they've grown up a bit and we've got them vet-checked, we'll be taking them to the RSPCA. Maybe just Mim, maybe Mim and Hiro, or maybe all three; if we can't take them, we're going to put them somewhere where they get a chance at getting adopted by a loving family because they're all such lovely little cats.
ANYWAY so that's the scoop! Kittens on the horizon! ( Have-a some photos! )
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