Help with stray cat and her kittens

My mom and I adopted a stray cat. She became pregnant thru the winter we made her a little house on our back porch which sits up about 6 steps high. She became pregnant and had her babies about 4 days ago. They are so precious! I try my best to keep her comfy. I'm so afraid that she will move them. I also feel like she must feel safe cause she had them on the porch in her little house. I did make her a bigger place to keep them and she seems to be doing ok. But she is an outside cat loves to go exploring and running around. Her best friend is a 100 pound white lab! Them together is amazing. He acted as if he was a proud papa the day she was having the babies. He even checks ana cleans the babies as well as her. I just hope and pray she does not move them. I'm a cat lover. I have a male fixed house cat. Do u think all is well with her?

What a wonderful little story! Her friendship with the dog makes it more secure for them, I think.  The danger may be from wild animals like raccoons. Them feeling the scent of dog living there will perhaps make them uneasy - and avoid your area...

As in the  tread you joined:  The best is prob if you can move them inside (into a quaranine room). Safer and easier to foster them.  You DO want them fostered and adopted out, you dont want to produce several more semiferales.  You will almost surely manage to foster her too.

Another risk is, she free living, may get in heat again, and searching for a tom, get run over... That happens now and than.  If she is inside, you can prevent this.

Otherwise, she and kittens are contend now and relatively safe. A semiferal cant have it better than that.  Shelter, food, friendly human, this friendship with the dog helping as extra mom, some protection from dangers...   If nothing very especielly happens,  I dont think she will move on.

I will ask a mod to move your post into a own tread, so you have your own.

Welcome to the TCS site and our Forums!

Good luck!   *vibes*

ps.  If you move them in, you must think about some quaranting because of your resident. And of course, think about defleasing before you let her into the whole house...

How is your resident?  Had they already met? Is he healthy? Fully vaccinated? is he used to go outside, if yes to all these question, you dont need to overdo the quarantine.

If no to any of question, you must think on a quarantine...

Just an update! We brought Miss kitty in along with her 6 kitties!! She has adjusted really well with being in. As for my JJ hes not too happy. He just dont understand why she wont play and why the doors always shut. I havent let him around the babies. plus Miss Kitty wont allow him either. I just hope that when they are old enough he wont be so jealous. he loves his mommy. I plan to keep one of the babies. shes a dark smokey color. I have already named her her name is Jenna. I think it fits her really good. Wish i could post a pic for all to see that love cats and kittens as much as I do. Oh she had 2 boys i think they are Garfield and Sylvester. And yes they look just like them. If I lived in the country on a farm I would keep them all!!! Fix them and keep them safe from harm. But I dont I just pray God gives me the strength to let them go with out crying too much. Will let all know how things go. Oh I almost forgot her best friend Boomer moved about a week ago. Not really sure if she misses him? Shes so consumed with her babies. Shes bn a really awesome first mommy!!! thanks for the comment. Have a good week!

Well the babies are ready to almost go. they are using litter pan trained themselves cuz mama dont use litter pan. Have bn eating whole food for about a week. Play so well together. My cat JJ will not have nothing to do with them. Hisses and growls at them. I hope he learns to love one of them. Which I call Garfield. Hes the biggest and we are keeping!! I would keep them all if I could. But I live in a duplex. And 8 cats would really be bad in here.

If I read your first post correctly they were born on the 30th April, making them 4 weeks old tomorrow - Monday 28th May. 

Sorry but they are nowhere near ready to go.  They should be 8 weeks at a bare minimum.  10 is better, 12 even better so long as they've had their first vaccination.

However it sounds like they are doing well!

The original post was 4/25 and she stated the mom gave birth 4 days ago.  So, maybe 4/21 birth?  If so, this is only 5 weeks.

I agree on waiting until 12 weeks if you can, no less than 10.  This stage with their mother is very important.  So that would be another 5-7 weeks before ready.

Yes, I added rather than subtracted the 4 days!   Having changed that, I reckon they are a day over 5 weeks old, so in my view need to spend at least as long again with the OP.

Glad to hear the news, but agreeing with these above!  8 weeks as the dire minimum if you MUST because....  Otherwise our recommendation is 12 weeks, 10 is an unhappy OK.

Yeah, they are nowhere near weaned right now.  Anyone taking a kitten would have to spend hours every day with it (to properly socialize it - and they'd have to know what they're doing, too) and start off feeding it kitten milk replacement.  Let their mom do all that work over the next couple of weeks - anyone who works 40 hours a week is not going to have time for a 5- or 6-week old kitten.  Glad you're providing a litter pan for them; they're easier to train right from the get-go.  You also might start providing them dry kitten food (mom should be eating this anyways, she needs the extra nutrients).  Let them stick around for awhile with their mom - and if you can afford it or you have a group in your area that does low-cost spay/neuters, keep the female kittens until they're 12 weeks old and get them spayed before you give them away - otherwise the cycle just continues.  Most kittens born to strays do not have a nice human like you to give them and their mom food and shelter, and they wind up living short miserable lives.

I once gave away a male and female kitten (they were fosters from a cat who wound up in my dad's shop) to a friend of mine, with a promise from him to spay/neuter them.  They were a little under 6 months old at the time.  Guess what - he waited a couple weeks to get them fixed, and let them roam outside in the meantime!  I couldn't believe it.  Guess he didn't know that 6-month-old cats can get pregnant.  If I ever foster kittens again, the females will not be given away until I can get them spayed.