love_casper
Well-Known Member
Thought you'd like to see our ADORABLE new barn kitties!!! First, a story I think is pretty cool about the Mama cat.
So a little over 2 months ago, this gray and white cat starts hanging around my barn. We board, she's one of the resident cats, but she decided that she wanted to be in our little barn rather than any of the other larger 3. She'd come in every night while I was feeding the minis. I'd shoo her out, she'd run out a stall, and then come back in through the top door while my back was turned! Eventually she started following me around each time she saw I was about to close the barn up, and she'd stay in every night.
I didn't think a whole lot of it until I noticed she was getting incredibly fat. Someone thought she was getting into my grain bins. I said unless she got opposable thumbs and figured out how to open tupperware I think not!!! Then she got pretty big and round, we all decided she was probably pregnant. (No duh, I say now... there are 8 adult cats that I know of, 3 are females, NONE are fixed!!!
I went to go get a bridle from my tackroom, my friend and I looked at each other and almost simultaneously said "Why are the walls meowing!!??!?!"
She'd had the kittens in my tackroom!!!
She left them in this hole in the wall of my tackroom until one of the cowboys that both Mama cat and I don't like found them, so she had to relocate. She then put them in the hay barn behind my pens, and I didn't see them until a few days ago when...
I went looking for them because the barn owner offered me pick of hte litter (and if they stay here they will breed their father and produce more inbred little kitties!) so I tried to find them. I shine a flash light on Mama once I find her behind some pallets, she comes out, leads the kittens out one by one, waits until they are all to me, one is in my lap, then leaves!!!! Like "Whoo my babysitter showed up, now I can go!" They were almost 5 weeks old then. Mama cat is so cool, I think we've really bonded. I'll be sad to leave her when we move in to our place.
So here's the precious ones at almost 6 weeks.
These are the two I'm taking home: The gray is Piper, and calico Pumpkin.
Pumpkin
Piper!!!!
THis one we call Tater Tot because she's so fat she gets stuck in the boards of the pallet.
Another female, very precious.
This little dude, we may also be taking home. My friend fell in love with him and if she pays to get him fixed, then she gets to keep him on our new place too. This is Pipsqueak - otherwise known as "squeaker" cuz when you cuddle him he squeaks. He's always the first one out to crawl on our laps.
Thanks for lettin me share!
