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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[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.