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LadyEllen -> Kittens! (3/13/2008 9:30:12 PM)
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Well, I got back from my meeting in Birmingham at around 5pm this evening, to be greeted by my two pregnant cats as usual. I fed them both and sat down to relax a while, whereupon Pepper (the Lassie of felines - always telling me something) started miaowing even more than usual. She climbed into the kittening nest I'd built for her sister (whose offspring I expected first) and started yowling. Her sister, who had been watching until this point, and heavily pregnant herself, got spooked and ran to hide!
Just before 7pm came the first kitten! A grey coloured baby of the exact same colour and patterning as the suspected father (a pedigree blue shorthair or some such). The kids dashed over, my friends dashed over. Then nothing. Everyone left.
Then just after 10pm - and quite unexpectedly came the second! Pepper is black and white like the Felix cat, and this kitten was just like her, except grey and white.
And then at half past eleven the third - black all over. Where that colouring came from I dont know - somewhere far back in the mists of genetic history presumably.
Mom and babies doing OK, but frustrating and hilarious to watch the kittens trying to find a teat! Still they latched on in the end and had a feed. And Pepper has eaten a double helping of supper and drank some water - which she never normally does.
And here I am, whilst theyre all sleeping, still awake just in case. And Auntie Tess is most unimpressed - I wonder if she understands that she has the same thing coming in a day or so?
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