Captured a Mommy Cat and her Kittens!
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On Tuesday night, I took Loki for his first walk since I broke my leg. We went outside and he of course immediately peed on the driveway and his own feet, then we turned and walked into our back yard. While he was sniffing around, I heard a faint meowing and thought it might be Ivan, the cat that magically escaped from our house. I took the dog further back, at which point he decided to make a dook while I listened and tried to figure out which direction the meowing was coming from. I started carefully tromping through the woods in our back yard (remember, I broke my leg!), but about half way there I realized it was the cry of a kitten, not a full grown cat. Eventually I came out in our neighbor’s back yard and on their back porch was a cute little black fuzzball. I went around front, rung their doorbell and asked if it was their kitten and it wasn’t, so I took it home. While Mary Ann cleaned it up (it was covered in fleas), I went to Wal-Mart and got some kitten milk to tide it over. It woke us up in the middle of the night for some more food, but other than that she was fine.
The next morning, I again took the dog out to do his business and what do I see? A black cat, hanging around in our driveway who upon spotting us heads for the neighbors across the street. She squeezes into their garage through a crack that I would never believe a cat could have gone through and is gone. I tell Mary Ann, since I suspect this is the mother. When Mary Ann leaves to go get some more kitten food, she sees the same black cat with a kitten in her mouth duck into the garage! We found her, and the rest of her kittens! Later that day, the neighbors let Mary Ann in and she captured them all. There are 4 kittens, 3 of them black and 1 gray tabby. The mother looks a lot like Mippi, but with a tail and uterus.
Let me tell you, after raising 4 other kittens from a very young age… capturing the mother is the way to go. The babies are quiet all night long and it is just so much easier to feed the mother and let her deal with the kittens. The mother is actually very sweet, we were worried she was a mean feral cat.