HOLD EVERYTHING

[gayalondiel_bak]

Lucky, the cat we took in on Friday (that we thought was a neutered male), managed to escape. (We don't know how, she seems to be able to open doors. Like a velociraptor.)

Yesterday evening the neighbours found her again. Up a tree. With five kittens, we think about six weeks old.

So, neither neutered nor male, it seems.

All have been captured and the various neighbours involved are housing three kittens between them, which leaves Lucky plus two to come to me, at least temporarily. Now that we know she's a non-lactating young mother I am even more concerned to get her to a vet asap. The kittens all look terribly healthy. Apparently when the neighbours sent their son up the tree he found loads of sachets of food that she had been nicking from somewhere and ripping into to provide food for the little ones.

I have been out to buy kitten stuff and plan to spend the day building a barricade for the spare bedroom door...

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[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

It's like the plot of a historical novel! Fashionable young man about town, favourite of benevolent salon hostesses, is really single mother in garret...

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

First person to work that into a Holmes or AOS canon fic wins. If no-one does by the time we're all settled I'll add it to my bunny hutch...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

That is one determined kitty. And a most excellent momma, too.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

We think she's part Maine Coon, and Gothette has seen them open doors before, they've got a good jump on them. All the kittens are climbers (well, if you were born up a tree, you probably would be too).

Everything prepared, waiting anxiously for the call to go get them. And completely stuck on the sodding ww prompt today.

ETA: I take that back, I just got the most cracky idea. And you thought Narnia was bad...

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Hooray for crack! *dances*

[adaese.livejournal.com]

My mother acquired a ginger female in very similar circumstances, when I was about twelve or thirteen I think. The colleague who'd first found her had no trouble finding homes for the kittens, but people prepared to take in an adult were rather slower in forming an orderly queue.

The vet later suggested she might have been stolen (ginger females being apparently quite highly regarded by breeders), then run away.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I think we're going to try to keep Lucky, come what may - Navyboy was already reconciled to that (unless she's got an owner listed on the missing cats list with the CPL). The fate of the kittens rather rests on whether I can convince Navyboy that housing six cats is viable and affordable. Or five with Goth and Gothette taking one. I'm determined at least to give them a home for a few months until Lucky is stable and healthy. I fear very strongly that at this time of year the RSPCA would put her down and we know CPL can't take her.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

*boggles*

Wow. So that's where the kittens came from...

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm so impressed with Lucky for getting out and very, very glad she was spotted. All the kittens are safely housed.

We think the father might be the big ginger tom across the road. It's got to be a red cat, they're all red tabbies and some are shorthairs.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Wait...this cat can open locked doors, procure cat food and open the sachets?! Better make sure she doesn't appropriate your LJ account next!

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

Yeah... you've seen those ads for the milk with the freaky cats? I'm a little concerned.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Poor Lucky, trapped and unable to get to her kitties (albeit for the best of reasons).

And so smart!

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I'm so proud of her, she's been just a wonderful mother. And now everyone's safe and housed.

And going to be spayed. It wouldn't have been great to have 25 inbred stray red tabbies at the end of the road this time next year.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I think I know who it was, there's a great big ginger tom across the road that we call Fearless Cat, who is the only ginger on the street, and all the kittens are red so the father must be. I'm keeping my eye on him...

Also, awesome names!