Oops, and what I should have said was 10 weeks till spaying is very late. As
soon as you are comfortable that the kittens can stay away from mum for 24
hours to give her time to get her wits about her and gather the strength to
bat them over the eyeballs every time they decide to try their luck for a
drink, that's the time to do it. I remember with Plato (the mum of the
kittens 20 years ago) I got her spayed at around 7 weeks, then simply kept
her in a room by herself for about 12 hours after she came home from the vet
(the kittens were mostly weaned by that stage). Once she and the kittens
were reintroduced she was strong enough to let them know they should be
finding food somewhere else, thank you very much.

My husband and I thought up a great business idea called Pile O'
Kittens, where you would pay say, $10 for 15 minutes in a room with
many many kittens to play with you. People would do it on their lunch
hour and go back to work all happy.

The problem with the plan was that once kittens stopped being kittens,
they'd have outlived their usefulness, cause a pile of CATS is only
enticing to batty old ladies whose kids never write to her. :)

Jess

You can train her. Start with giving her litter type more close to what she
is used to outside. Try different type cat-litter: wood based, plain paper
or most likely plain send/ground, cos she may be used to that living outside
for so long. Also SHOW her how to do it. Gently of course, when you see she
wanna go, just hold her front paw and scratch the litter with her a few
times, she may get the message. Also Good thing to try is to catch some of
her pee, then place it on/in the litter, so she gets the message this is the
place for a wee. Even if its soiled paper just put it in the litter. And if
you cant catch any of hers, you could even try putting some of your own. I
know it sounds disgusting but Im talking of a tiny amount, just to give
litter the smell of ammonia.

If she does a wee at a place you don't want her to, clean the place
thoroughly with biological detergent, when dry with vinegar, again when dry
place some dry cat food on top of the area, or rub into carpet.Cats are
clean animals and generally don't wee and eat in the same area.

I dunno if anyone told you, but mum may from time to time decide to move
kittens to a different place(different room, under the table, in the
cupboard). They do it for a number of reasons we are still only guessing(too
many people/pets, too noisy, too drafty, too scary whateva), but if it
happens you can try and return them all to original allocated place, or you
could move the allocated place to her if possible :)

I hope you find good homes for the kittens.
Wishing you all the best
Gee