This past summer, we noticed a stray cat helping herself to the cat food left on our porch for my mom's cat, Gus. The stray was a young black and white,skinny, but friendy female, who made herself at home. My brother, Phil, who lived up the road, had just had is dog of 14 years put down, decided to adopt the stray and named her Tina.
As soon as Phil moved Tina up to his place, he started to notice a slight change, Tina seemed to be getting fatter. Yes, Tina was "with kittens!" Too late to spay, Phil let nature take it's course and low and behold, Tina delivered six kittens. There were two black and white, two grey tiger, and two white with grey stripes, three males and three felmales. We went up to his place to see them and take pictures. How cute they were.
As they grew, they started to get restless in their box, soon they were eveverywhere, climbing up the couch, running through the house and quite wild.
I told Phil that they needed socialization, so he started dropping them off ant my moms house before he went to work in the morning. They had a ball outside on the porch. A lot more place to hide and a lot more adventures, as they could explore the yard, as well. To tell you the truth, they were quite entertaining to watch.
I printed several advertisements with the kittens' pictures and hung them up at work and at several public areas around the lake. My neice, Lauren visited over the weekend and the kittens kept her busy for two whole days. What an opportunity to see kittens at play. It might be the last time we experience that joy. It is hard to get rid of them once they're here, you just have to check out the newspaper, "free kittens."
