Actually ... six! Behind my house in Tampa there lives a couple ferals.
I was worried for them (Franz's disappearance 2 years ago) but as it
happens Jessica in one of the small businesses had been feeding them.
One's a calico and the other a small young white&grey and we learned,
just before i left for PA, she was pregnant. Sure enough, 10 days
before I left she dropped but we couldn't find or hear them under the
house (where they both hid out). I was afraid for them but...
Last week Katie talked with Jessica and she'd caught one kitten, now 4
weeks old, and was slotting it for a working cat. Then Katie saw 4
kittens playing and trapped two in quick succession, took them to my vet
and thence to Friends of Strays!! (she's already has enough, 9 rescues,
at home!) Then she discovered yet another kitten, a calico, last
Friday and luckily caught it! One eye was closed and the other goopy
but the vet cleared it up quickly with antibiotics and a cow-orker
immediately adaopted it and loves it. So she's working on the 2
remaining kittens, now about 5 weeks old and getting shyer. Push to
shove, she'll try to live-trap and neuter the mother. Heh, she told me
the news with, "You're a daddy" and my response was pure MCP: "Just
because you're a mommy doesn't make me a daddy!" Norm (small mercies
dept: so far, no dropoffs on my country biking route (whence came Case
and Khensu), keep your fingers crossed)
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Karen - 14 May 2004 14:24 GMT
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Great news she has gotten so many of them! Hope the "family" remains stable
this year.
Karen
Marina - 14 May 2004 14:30 GMT
Such a happy ending for all the kittens. Purrs that Hessica manages to trap
the mother, and that there are no drop-offs on your biking route.

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polonca12000 - 14 May 2004 22:26 GMT
Purrs for the kitties to find their onetruehome,

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