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Post by Otter on Jul 9, 2015 4:45:29 GMT
Bob had kittens today. In case the name wasn't a giveaway, there was some confusion about Bob when she first got here. She was dumped here late last summer/early fall, larger, fatter, older and sleeker than most dumpees. DD assured me Bob was a boy, and honestly, it was a few weeks before I got around to actually checking, by which time the name was firm.
Because fixed females often grow large with a sleek, sort of gender neutral look, and because she WASN'T pregnant when dumped we thought she might be that rarest of creatures, a dumped cat who was fixed. A friend and I even carefully searched over Bob's belly (to her vast delight, she is a very friendly cat) looking for a spay scar, and thought maybe there was one (they are seriously faint and tiny. Go look)
But no, after being here for 10 months, Bob graced us this morning with 3? little bundles of joy. I think there are 2 whites and a chocolate colored one. I thought this might be The Year Without Kittens, but Bob had other plans. Animals are good at that.
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Post by my3boys on Jul 12, 2015 1:30:37 GMT
Yeah, we adopted a pregnant cat who gifted us with 4 kittens , so including our older girl we now have 6. All indoors and spoiled rotten.
Were you the one who helped your friend out with the 2 cats her in laws dumped at the shelter? Were you able to get them out? Didn't see an update and was wondering how everything turned out.
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Post by Otter on Jul 12, 2015 6:03:12 GMT
Yes, that's me. We got them pulled by a local rescue group and temporarily fostered, but are still working on transportation. I need to go update that, it's been a really busy week.
Cats get dumped here pretty often and generally I do a yearly spay round up, occasionally with the help of a fundraiser. We spay between 3 and 7 a year. This year, we missed it, between lack of funds and a blissful lack of unspayed girls! So we thought. But Bob fooled us!
She is a good mother. Very low key and kind of zen about it, not excessively snuggly with them. But by God are those kittens clean and fat!
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Post by my3boys on Jul 14, 2015 21:07:12 GMT
Yes, that's me. We got them pulled by a local rescue group and temporarily fostered, but are still working on transportation. I need to go update that, it's been a really busy week. Cats get dumped here pretty often and generally I do a yearly spay round up, occasionally with the help of a fundraiser. We spay between 3 and 7 a year. This year, we missed it, between lack of funds and a blissful lack of unspayed girls! So we thought. But Bob fooled us! She is a good mother. Very low key and kind of zen about it, not excessively snuggly with them. But by God are those kittens clean and fat! Awesome. I'm so glad your friend won't lose her pets on top of everything else she has lost. Now I can sleep at night .
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Post by PNP Katahdins on Jul 15, 2015 5:33:52 GMT
we thought she might be that rarest of creatures, a dumped cat who was fixed. Our Frank was a stray picked up in the city of Platteville several years ago. The co-worker's daughter who rescued him took him to the vet for neutering and shots, only to find out he was already done. What a shock! He didn't work out with her other cats and she offered him to us on the farm where one of hers was born. He has been a great indoor/outdoor cat except for trying to breed the spayed girls. He didn't know what milk was so we think some college boys had him, graduated, and left him with friends who kicked him out. Their loss, our gain. We had a boy named Lucy, only found out when "she" went in for spaying. Bob is lucky she found you, Otter. We have gotten used to Years Without Kittens.
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Post by aoconnor on Jul 17, 2015 15:51:48 GMT
Ha ha! Our "George Kitty" came home with nipples one morning. George was a girl after all:-) Silly us, it was when I was a little girl, but I still remember yelling for my mom that George had "Nibbles", which my family still picks on me about, even 44 years later!!!
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