There's been a beautiful, beautiful cat in our neighborhood for close to a year. (I believe it's a chocolate point Siamese, and it has the most amazing sapphire blue eyes) People in the next block put an ad in the lost and found last year when it was hanging out near their house, but there were no takers. It lives under my neighbor's shed for the most part, and I put food and water out for it. It's extremely timid; in all this time I haven't been able to get closer than 6 feet before it runs. Obviously, I've never been close enough to tell it's sex. I kept telling myself that if it was an unspayed female, there would have been kittens as some point.
Lately I'd noticed it was getting awfully chubby, but I just thought it was because I was putting food out for it. It disappeared Friday and I didn't see it again until yesterday. It seemed to have lost weight over those couple of days. Uh-oh.
Today I was walking thru my yard and it was walking on the other side of the yard. All of a sudden, I heard this high pitched meowing. I looked under a broken down wheelbarrow, and there were kittens---tiny, tiny kittens. I backed off, went to get some food and water, and put it near the wheelbarrow. By the time I got back with the food, she was back with her babies, giving me the evil eye.
I know this can't be her first litter if she's been outside for a year. I'm assuming her others have been killed by a tom. I came in, called the animal warden, and left a message; he will supposedly get back to me in the morning. His answering service told me he would come out to trap the mother and take the kittens.
I'm scared to death that something will happen to them overnight, but there is no way she's going to let me near her babies---or herself, for that matter.
The poor thing, I wish there was something else I could do for her. I'm afraid she's so wild she's going to be really hard to trap, and that she'll eventually be put down because she's so afraid of people.
I don't think I'm going to get much sleep tonight; I just hope the animal warden doesn't say, "I"m so busy I won't be there 'til next week."
Ugh, I hate this!
Lately I'd noticed it was getting awfully chubby, but I just thought it was because I was putting food out for it. It disappeared Friday and I didn't see it again until yesterday. It seemed to have lost weight over those couple of days. Uh-oh.
Today I was walking thru my yard and it was walking on the other side of the yard. All of a sudden, I heard this high pitched meowing. I looked under a broken down wheelbarrow, and there were kittens---tiny, tiny kittens. I backed off, went to get some food and water, and put it near the wheelbarrow. By the time I got back with the food, she was back with her babies, giving me the evil eye.
I know this can't be her first litter if she's been outside for a year. I'm assuming her others have been killed by a tom. I came in, called the animal warden, and left a message; he will supposedly get back to me in the morning. His answering service told me he would come out to trap the mother and take the kittens.
I'm scared to death that something will happen to them overnight, but there is no way she's going to let me near her babies---or herself, for that matter.
The poor thing, I wish there was something else I could do for her. I'm afraid she's so wild she's going to be really hard to trap, and that she'll eventually be put down because she's so afraid of people.
I don't think I'm going to get much sleep tonight; I just hope the animal warden doesn't say, "I"m so busy I won't be there 'til next week."
Ugh, I hate this!