by polliwog » Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:36 pm
There's a very friendly stray cat currently raising a litter in my laundry room.
We've known for a while we'd have to take her and the babies to the shelter, because as affectionate as she is with us, she's pretty vicious to our cats, and we can't afford to care for the kittens.
Today we finally made the call, and found out we actually have to keep them, for a little while, 'cause the shelter will happily take them all but not until they weigh a pound each - or, preferably, once they're weaned.
So it ended up being an emotional roller-coaster of 'they have to leave' followed by 'they get to stay for now' which is fun.
(They're two weeks and two days old today! There's five of them. Three look like mama, one's a mix, and one's like dad.)