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Coral's Kittens

post #1 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:02pm
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Sorry, it was hard for me to get a good picture, but I will post more later. Coral and her kittens are all doing great! They're all eating well and look very healthy. I had very low expectations due to her young age of 8 months old. Coral is eating and starting to walk around a bit. When she stands up, the kittens are latched on so tight that they just slowly drop off of her while she's standing. It's so cute! The one that looks wet was just born about 2 minutes before the picture. He was the one that wanted to stay in her!





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post #2 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:09pm
awwwwwwwwwwwwww so cute!! how many are there??
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post #3 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:17pm
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There are 5 healthy little ones. We couldn't be more happy! She did great.
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post #4 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:25pm
Awww congratulations!! are you keeping any of them?
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post #5 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:36pm
Aww! They are so adorable!!! I'm jealous, Veruca is still under the bed. I hardly get to see the kittens at all.

Coral has the most beautiful eyes
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post #6 of 40
3/14/09 at 2:55pm
awwwwwwwwwww beautiful babies
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post #7 of 40
3/14/09 at 3:24pm
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I don't think we're going to keep any. We have 2 indoor cats, 1 indoor/outdoor and 1 outdoor cat. We're pretty much catted out. We have lots of people who want these kittens and two have already been picked as of this afternoon. I'll keep looking for good homes for all of them. I'm very careful as to who they go to!

You'll laugh at me, but we actually took the metal frame down, so our bed in on the ground, just so Coral couldn't have them under the bed and then us not have access to them if she needs help. I feel like we live our lives around our animals. It's so funny. I thought of the idea when you said that Veruca was under the bed, so you never got to see the kittens. Coral is very happy in our closet. I put the litter box, food, water and heating pad in there. They are all so cozy and happy.
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post #8 of 40
3/14/09 at 3:30pm
Ugh, that's such a good idea, I wish I would have thought of it! I wonder what would happen if we did that now, or maybe we should just wait it out. I don't know, I have these awful visions of the bed collapsing on top of them every day, it's really unnerving.
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post #9 of 40
3/14/09 at 3:38pm
She is lucky to have love her and her babies so much and good luck finding them all homes!
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post #10 of 40
3/14/09 at 4:10pm
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Ugh! I actually mentioned that to my husband when he was complaining about taking the frame down. About 6 years ago I was going to adopt a kitten and I went to the lady's house to look at the kitten and she said that one I wanted was squished by the couch. What a sad loss.

I feel so lucky to have such a loyal cat that trusts me.
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post #11 of 40
3/14/09 at 7:23pm
CONGRATS! Some of hers look like Tinkerbells! How many did she have?
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post #12 of 40
3/14/09 at 8:17pm
They look great! Good job mama!
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post #13 of 40
3/14/09 at 8:31pm
Awww how precious!!! Congratulations!
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post #14 of 40
3/14/09 at 8:41pm
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CONGRATS! Some of hers look like Tinkerbells! How many did she have?
She had 5 kittens. She's a great mommy and it's so much fun to watch what an amazing job she's doing.
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post #15 of 40
3/15/09 at 6:03am
Awww! they're adorable!!!
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post #16 of 40
3/15/09 at 12:12pm
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The two closest to her feet are the rough and tough ones. The second one from her feet, the all black, is HUGE! It's very obvious and he's the one that was stuck in her for 4 hours. I can already tell who the runt is too. It's the black and white one, second from the top, who's face is covered. It's very tiny, but seems to be doing well.

Has anyone ever heard of adopting a pet from the pound and them saying it's fixed and it's not? I am thinking our black and white might be the daddy, but we got it from the pound and it was supposed to be neutered already. How can you tell? It's okay to be graphic, I'm a chiropractor, so I've seen some weird things.
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post #17 of 40
3/15/09 at 12:48pm
Several people on TCS have had cats that were supposedly spayed or neutered and turned out not to be. Another thing to consider is that a male cat can still impregnate a female up to two months after being neutered because he's got sperm stored up already.
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post #18 of 40
3/15/09 at 1:15pm
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That an interesting little thing that I'm sure most people wouldn't even think about. We got Sylvester a few years ago and they said he was 8 years old then. So he's 10 or 11 and a very sweet cat. I was thinking of checking if he was neutered, but I don't know what to look for .
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post #19 of 40
3/15/09 at 1:51pm
I'm not positive, but some places give the cat a little tattoo or something on their bellies after they are fixed.

Wow, your kittens are huge! Mine are so tiny still... They're certainly growing, but in no way look that size. I know they're eating, everytime I check on them they are at a teat. Hmm, I wonder why that is.

Edit: Ignore this, I pulled all of the kittens out from under the bed and they are much bigger than I thought. I'm such a dunce!
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post #20 of 40
3/15/09 at 2:09pm
Well, if a male cat is neutered, he won't have balls, so it's not too hard to tell!

Although if he was a full tom when neutered, sometimes it isn't so obvious. But, really, a male cat's testicles are pretty obvious. Just take a peek under his tail and see if he's got anything. Also, usually a tomcat's urine is VERY strong-smelling, and most people can't stand to keep a full tom indoors, even if he uses the litterbox faithfully (which is rare for toms). So unless you have a reduced sense of smell, he probably is neutered. Did she ever get outside about the time she got pregnant?
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post #21 of 40
3/15/09 at 2:57pm
Yeah, neutered toms get their balls snipped off (poor things!) so you should be able to tell.
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post #22 of 40
3/15/09 at 3:43pm
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I'll give him peek. He was rescued the day he was supposed to be put to sleep, but he never worked as an indoor cat. I didn't know what to do because he was already declawed when we got him, so I was scared to even let him out during the day. I tried it, and he didn't leave the yard. We have high walls all around and I think he couldn't jump them. So, I have left him out for the past two years, and we've been lucky he doesn't leave the yard.

Coral and him spent lots of time together outside, before the pregnancy, but she WOULD leave the yard. I guess I'll never figure it out, but it's very strange that one looks just like him. I'll take a picture in a couple of weeks and let you guys be the judge. I think I need to take her to the Maury Povich Show..."Sylvester, you are not the daddy!"
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post #23 of 40
3/15/09 at 3:47pm
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I'm not positive, but some places give the cat a little tattoo or something on their bellies after they are fixed.

Wow, your kittens are huge! Mine are so tiny still... They're certainly growing, but in no way look that size. I know they're eating, everytime I check on them they are at a teat. Hmm, I wonder why that is.

Edit: Ignore this, I pulled all of the kittens out from under the bed and they are much bigger than I thought. I'm such a dunce!
He he! How are they all doing? Have you been able to hold them a bit?
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post #24 of 40
3/15/09 at 4:09pm
Well, if he was de-clawed he's probably neutered, too......although not always. I wish vets would refuse to de-claw unneutered cats (I really wish they'd refuse de-claws altogether...but that'll never happen! Second best to make sure they're fixed first). Nothing sadder than a stray tom with no claws trying to fight his way through the streets or a clawless stray female trying to provide for her kittens. But most of the time neuters and de-claws are done together. So I'm guessing he's not the daddy. Although by the colors of the kitties, daddycat was probably black or black & white.
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post #25 of 40
3/15/09 at 4:28pm
Yep, finally! I think I'm a bit more timid than veruca is about handling them, but she let me hold all four of them for quite a while today while Ian was taking a nap. There was a little kitty fight over a nipple, too!
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post #26 of 40
3/15/09 at 5:46pm
She has some adorable babies! And it looks like she's taking to motherhood nicely!
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post #27 of 40
3/15/09 at 6:53pm
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We do have one other all black cat in the neighborhood, but I haven't seen him in a very long time. That's a good point about the de-clawing and the neutering. I actually didn't even know he was de-clawed when I decided to adopt him. I wouldn't do it myself though. My family de-clawed a cat when I was younger and she still keeps her paws up when she's relaxing. My guess is that it hurts. We wouldn't have done it and my parent's have decided to never do it again, after seeing what it did to her.
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post #28 of 40
3/15/09 at 6:54pm
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Yep, finally! I think I'm a bit more timid than veruca is about handling them, but she let me hold all four of them for quite a while today while Ian was taking a nap. There was a little kitty fight over a nipple, too!
Isn't it amazing even getting to touch them. Such a treat! I think the fights over the nipples are so cute. Our two biggest ones had a major fight today and they're only 18 hours old. I couldn't believe it!
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post #29 of 40
3/15/09 at 9:37pm
They are such QT pies.
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post #30 of 40
3/16/09 at 5:28am
Hehe, they're all so cute! Gosh, if they're fighting now, I wonder what they'll be like when their bigger!It's so funny when they're like 3 weeks, and they start to wrestle, but it's like slow motion!
Hehe...Coral looks like a really great mom!
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