I got my motorcycle endorsement on my drivers license last Friday, so I've been racking up the miles right in my neighborhood to learn how to ride without being out in traffic. Wednesday night I was just around the corner from my house, there is an abandoned house, the owner passed away about a month ago and evidently she was a cat lady. As I approached the house I saw that there were kittens everywhere.
I cut my ride short and went home and got some food and headed back over. This is the first pic, at one point I counted 13 kittens, and I'm sure there were more.
I have 4 cats already, two bonded pairs, one pair I rescued about 9 years ago, and a pair of littermates I rescued about 7 years ago. Now I have 6 cats, hopefully 3 bonded pairs!
The first one came running right up to me crying, I would say maybe 8 weeks old, that's the dark one in the picture, this one came home Thursday afternoon, and just thrives on attention, purrs up a storm and just can't get enough loving. It's been my experience you don't adopt 1 cat, you get them in pairs so they will bond. So I fell right in love with the white one in the pic, obviously some seal point siamese in the mix, this one came home today. This one is little more aloof, maybe 2-3 weeks older but already seems to be settling in nicely after only a few hours. I have them quarantined in a big dog crate in my living room until I can get them to a shelter, checked out and officially adopted. Right now they're both curled up in a cardboardbox I put in the crate so thing are looking good with the bonding.
I got the word out, and a neighbor caught 2 last night and took them home, another neighbor took 2 this morning and took the home. When I was over there this afternoon the local animal control person was trapping them and rounding them up and taking them to local shelters, (no kill shelters).
So, I'm in the midst of getting ready for a cross country move, and now I will have 6 cats to move instead of 4! I couldn't just walk away.
Sorry for the sideways pics, I couldn't figure out how to rotate them.
I cut my ride short and went home and got some food and headed back over. This is the first pic, at one point I counted 13 kittens, and I'm sure there were more.
I have 4 cats already, two bonded pairs, one pair I rescued about 9 years ago, and a pair of littermates I rescued about 7 years ago. Now I have 6 cats, hopefully 3 bonded pairs!
The first one came running right up to me crying, I would say maybe 8 weeks old, that's the dark one in the picture, this one came home Thursday afternoon, and just thrives on attention, purrs up a storm and just can't get enough loving. It's been my experience you don't adopt 1 cat, you get them in pairs so they will bond. So I fell right in love with the white one in the pic, obviously some seal point siamese in the mix, this one came home today. This one is little more aloof, maybe 2-3 weeks older but already seems to be settling in nicely after only a few hours. I have them quarantined in a big dog crate in my living room until I can get them to a shelter, checked out and officially adopted. Right now they're both curled up in a cardboardbox I put in the crate so thing are looking good with the bonding.
I got the word out, and a neighbor caught 2 last night and took them home, another neighbor took 2 this morning and took the home. When I was over there this afternoon the local animal control person was trapping them and rounding them up and taking them to local shelters, (no kill shelters).
So, I'm in the midst of getting ready for a cross country move, and now I will have 6 cats to move instead of 4! I couldn't just walk away.
Sorry for the sideways pics, I couldn't figure out how to rotate them.
