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I've been busy, but I wanted to update... Mama is successfully raising the remaining six kittens. One is smaller than the rest, but he's hanging in there. Every so often, I grab the three largest for some socializing while the three smallest nurse. Their eyes started to open three-four days...

So far, so good... A couple are definitely pulling away from the others in weight gain, but everyone is doing well. Mama is comfortable around our older kitten and let him come in and see the babies. He's six months old and bigger than Mama. Anyway, he started helping her clean them and was a...

She keeps scattering them randomly around the room. I'll hear one crying loudly and go in, and she's tucked one under the dresser, or on the bed, under the desk, and once, in a toy bus. It's starting to be amusing, but I have to check really often to make sure no one is forgotten. All the babes...

I was being a little tongue-in-cheek about the little mutt cats remark. Sorry that didn't seem to come through. This little guy is unlike any cat I've had, and I'd be surprised if he weren't...something different. I guess we just wondered if that were true, how he and his sister would end up...

Are there ever kittens born to breeders that aren't a good enough example of their breed, and so get sort of quietly passed off as little mutt cats? I ask because a friend of my husband's owns a pet store, and a few months ago, he had two kittens dropped off. Both were very unique in body...

We still have six! I'm finally relaxing enough to get a good look at them (other than weights and health), and geez, they are cute! All little tabbies, two marbeled, and right now, they are really high contrast, black blacks and white whites. I'll get some pictures tonite. Now I just have to...

This morning, she'd moved three onto the bed and was feeding them, and three were still in the box, but everyone is warm and apparently healthy. One and Three were the ones I'd worried about since the first day, so I shouldn't be surprised that we lost them, I guess. I am weighing them, but my...

We lost another one. I'm really surprised because it was the first born largest kitten that appeared fine this morning. It was also, IMO, one of the prettiest, the white one with the grey mask. I don't know if Mama pushed her away or if she crawled away, but I found her under a towel on the far...

Three died last night. My son brought me a kitten he found on his bed, and at first I thought it was Three, so I kept him warm until morning...but by first light, it wasn't Three. I found Three dead in the kitten pile. I guess maybe she was right that there was something wrong with him. He...

I came home from the hospital and found Mama feeding all of them...except Three who was completely by himself, off the heating pad and cold. I really want to believe she's not doing this on purpose. I tried to feed him, but he barely sucks. I fed another to compare, and the other suckles fine...

Okay, well, she's feeding seven of them. Little number Three just keeps getting pushed aside, so I started feeding him. I have the whole crew on a heating pad now just in case more of them get pushed away. I have her confined with them in a cage that's big enough for her and the litter pan, food...

Thank you. She's not showing much interest in mothering, unfortunately. I locked her in the cage with them, and this morning when I woke up, she was letting them nurse, but poor Three is cold and dirty. For some reason, she's not taking care of him. I put an small heater in the room, and I guess...

Oh, the spay is already planned. I manage an animal shelter, though we don't do small animals for the most part. I've only had to do kittens a couple of times, and never had to help this much. She's making me really nervous because she has yet to let them all nurse for more than a minute or so...

A pregnant stray arrived on our doorstep a few weeks ago. She's a cat the neighbors left when they moved, so everyone's been feeding her. I didn't realize at the time that she was pregnant, but it quickly became obvious. She began to have the kittens in a recycling bin on my porch this morning...