Not mine! Our sweet Ms. Butterfly's - she had 5 beautiful little kittens today. The kids love having kittens ( I do too, however, my dh is another story, can you say "not a cat lover??" ) We got to encourage her in between deliveries, making bets about how many kittens there would be. The kids would get a little cautious when Ms Butterfly would start meowing signaling the coming of a little one. My youngest thought that Ms Butterfly was meowing too loudly and hurting his ears so he didn't get to close. None of the kids actually saw the birth, they would just check on her here and there. It was nice excitement, especially with the passing of our dear Mr. Sue, (see previous post). It is so funny, growing up on a farm, I never worried about where and when our cats would deliver. We just thought it was great fun to try and find out where they hid them. Then we would bother them mercilessly. Now, Ms Butterfly will lay down outside our shed door and give birth right there if I don't let her in. I worry about letting her out, stay up odd hours to apease her etc. I always say I will make her find someplace else, but I just can't do it. Although she will be moving to a different place later this week as we are leaving for a few days and I can't leave her in my shed for the weekend. Listen to me ramble about my cat... I think they snuck their way into my heart... :)
(anyone want a kitten ?) :P
2 comments:
this is so sweet! i completely understand.. living on the farm now.. the cats just go about having kittens wherever.. my kids are always so worried about them being ok.. but those moms are sneaky and move them around. we just found a batch (5) last week and before they could get them up to the garage in a box, the mother had moved them.. needless to say there was much disappointment! but the kids found them yesterday and are now going about the task of 'taming them up!' :)
That's ADORABLE! Baby kittens are so cute. I went over to a friend's house a few years back and I'm somewhat allergic to cats (which is a shame because I really like them) and her cat had kittens and they were adorable! There was one, in particular, that was so cute and I didn't want to give it back :) I wanted to keep it! They are so cute. You should have considered making some actual birth announcements (they've got some really cute ones at photoaffections.com) and passing them on to friends. Maybe that way they would have been interested in having one of your kittens? If I were you, though, I'd keep them all :) Hehe.
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