Winter on the Wane

The last few days of February . . .   I like to think of them as the last few days of Winter.  There are some definitive signs of Spring showing up in my world.  The old-fashioned daffodils are in full bloom.  There’s just no turning back when Fairy Land lights up yellow.  The daffodils announce the end of Winter long before the official calendar does.  Also, we had a warm enough evening over the weekend that we opened the screened-in “catio” for a while.  By the next day, it was too chilly out there again.  But for that one evening, the cats were SO happy to be out there.

                                                                                         Fairy Land.






You know what else announces the end of Winter?  Kitten Season.  Which I have explained takes up THREE full regular seasons of the year - Spring, Summer, and Fall.  This year I’ve been exposed to the precursor of Kitten Season more than ever before.  That precursor?   Pregnant mom kitties.  You know we have Beatrice With Babies and Paris With Packages.  Our maternity ward is only growing larger.  Yesterday, four cats were surrendered to the shelter where Older Daughter works.  The family brought the cats because the owner has become ill and can no longer keep them.  Here is the problem.  Two of those cats are brother and sister AND father and mother to an unborn litter of kittens.  That’s right.  Brother and Sister were never neutered and spayed, and now Sister is pregnant.  The other two cats HAD been altered.  Brother is the only one who can be father.  Sister is now with us so that she can give birth in an environment of less chaos than the shelter can provide.  Sister’s name is Abbie.        Abbie With Accidents. 

I do not know for sure if the offspring of a brother and sister are more likely to have problems as a result.  I certainly hope this doesn’t assure us stillborn kittens, or kittens that are born alive but die shortly after birth.  Abbie is as greatly pregnant as are Beatrice and Paris.   All look as if they could give birth at any moment.                              The beginnings of Kitten Season . . .       Here we go.

                                                                        Abbie With Accidents.

Tomorrow is the last TWOsday in February.  One more push for somebody out there to adopt TWO together of our cathouse kitties before we start ending up with our OWN Kitten Season kitties.  The current three expectant mothers are registered with the shelter and we are only fostering them.  It is not my responsibility to find homes for them and their babies.  But it is only a matter of time until unspayed mom cats everywhere start delivering their packages - right in my path.  

Comments

[Nerissa's Life]

Oh, this yellow fairy land of yours looks simply divine. How I would love to romp and play amongst those daffy-down-dillies. Maybe ours will be blooming soon... what's that? Oh, the peep says not for another couple of months. Sigh.

[Random Felines]

LOVE Fairly Land....

Poor Abbie....(potential kitten name - Calamity Jane??) MOL Mom cracks herself up sometimes.

[ginny& the Fur Family]

Abbie with accidents looks ready to pop. If only people would neuter and spay their pets. I have had a big red bushy tom hanging around my porch cat Ms. Lilly but she is thankfully not his target. He is after Ivy boo,the kitten of a cat who came here and had her and now is gone only coming back occasionally to feed. I have tried to no avail to catch Ivy boo. I will keep trying. I do have so much sympathy for the poor female kitties who are with children and have no homes. Now Chystal has them so they have a chance. Please open your hearts to a new kitten from Chrystal's kennel / rescue Winnies Room - you will be getting quality kitties with knowledge of their back ground and habits. Chrystal does her very best to give you furries with good health and they will give you lots of love for a furry life time. The fairy land looks so inviting - I am sure leprechauns are hiding among the yellow fairy flowers and four leaf clovers....Adopt a St. Patricks day cat. Have a sunny good day - love the catio pictures. Ginny & The fur Family

[Connie]

While I hate to put in writing that inbreeding can be OK, (cause some people might think it is justification) my Ollie was the product of mother and son.. He was very healthy for his life until VAS took him when he was 11.

if this is the first generation of inbreeding, chances are everything will be OK, especially since they are moggies..

And I think it is absolutely delightful you are giving them middle and last names.. it makes me smile.

[Jan (Milo and Alfie's mom)]

Wishing the birthing mums love and luck. xx