This is about the six kittens that were born last August 7
after I agreed to take responsibility for them, to save
them and the mother from a late-term abortion.

To recap, because it has been so long since the last update:

The mother, a near-feral pregnant cat when I borrowed her,
was returned to her 'owners' two months after the kittens
were born.  She had been spayed and given other medical
treatment, was litterbox trained, tamed (at least with me),
dewormed and treated for fleas.  The kittens were weaned
before she was spayed, and she recuperated for a week after
spaying before being returned.

The kittens were spayed/neutered in early January at age 5
months.

A few days later a kitten was almost run over, and I had
to face the fact that they were more vulnerable to traffic
than single cats, because they traveled in groups.  Also
it was becoming obvious that it was wrong for me to
inflict six more cats on the neighbors.  Up until that
time I had been allowing the kittens long periods of
time outdoors.

The solution was to keep them in the house until I could
get a fence built around the back yard that would keep
cats confined to the yard.  People said it couldn't be
done, but such a fence was planned, and after a three-month
struggle with the incompetent and lying people at our
local Lowe's, the fence was finally installed, and I added
a cat-proof topping.

April 12 was the great day when the kittens, then age
8 months, were given the downstairs and backyard for their
new home, and the once-stray cat that had been confined
downstairs had his home expanded accordingly.

Now we have two separate domains, with my original three
cats upstairs, indoors and outdoors, and the other seven
downstairs and in the backyard.  It was the only solution
that I could think of that covered all of our problems, and
so far it has worked beautifully.  Keeping the six growing
kittens in the house from January to April was a trying
experience, but now we have peace, at least until the next
unforseen crisis comes along.  The backyard has trees and
bushes and pinestraw, and a lot of space for running and
chasing things.

This link is to pictures of all of my cats, including the
six young ones individually, and a picture of the
cat-proof fence.  All of the cats are in good health, by
the way, and the young ones recently had their first rabies
shots.

http://www.geocities.com/ricewww/crcats.html