Two of the outdoor farmcats showed up pregnant. As I know someone who may be in the market for a kitten, and as I’m a schmuck with a soft spot for cats, I brought them into my basement a week or so ago. The two sisters are overall black, but very different in size; one is quite small. And by last night she looked like a furry bowling ball with legs. This morning she started birthin’ the babies… six (I coulda swore I initially counted seven… maybe my public school edumacation caught up with me) completely black, apparently healthy kittens. Holy crapola does that basement room stink! Cat piss, catcrap, blood, Odin knows what all fluids spilled forth and turned the place into one hell of a toxic waste dump. But the neat thing is that the still pregnant sister seemed to take over the bulk of the nursing duties. Whether that was due to that sister being the more “motherly,” or due to the new mommacat being simply wore the hell out and the sister picking up the slack, I can’t say. Well, hopefully soon the second litter will come along, and then I’ll see how the division of labor works *then.*
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Cute little critters!
I’ve “midwived” three litters (fetched by the mama for the first one). It’s messy but usually not as bad to clean up as first appears.
Two litters at once can be amusing; the next two here were sisters, within a week or one another, and they were fairly secretive about the birth and promptly relocated to a nearly inaccessible local for nearly three weeks. Total of eight kittens. Their moms shared the workload indiscriminately. A big batch of kittens like that is a treat to watch and play with!
You know, if the area really does smell that bad, you probably want to take a hose and a lot of soap in there and clean the whole works out for the sake of both your and the cat’s health.
Alternately, since you seem to have already established the “Lowther Unwed Cat Birth Hospital & Homeless Cat Food Bank”* you may want to build a dedicated structure for doing this that is easy to clean, and outside the house entirly.
*What’s really hilarious about this is that if PETA or Sarah McLachlen and the ASPCA ever heard about what you’ve done, they would no doubt consider you a real hero in the battle for animal rights due to your caring and sensitive heart toward all living beings.
There’s a whole South Park episode involving Cartman right there. 😀