July 18, 2021 Day 10 Have not written the past few days. The nursery family is doing great. We have all been doing our routines. I try to work on Mitsy’s socialisation. And here is the great news: the kittens are starting to open their eyes and their ears are starting to unfold. Mitsy has … Read moreMitsy lets me meet the kittens…
July 14, 2021 Day 6! Happy birthday to my mother, who is turning 86 today! Mitsy feeds the brood either in full or in batches, 2-4. She eats 2-5 times per day, 2 times at night, once in the morning and the evening and a snack in between when I bring her one. Sometimes I … Read moreWe are all developing a rhythm!
July 13, 2021 Day 5 Today was a busy day. Right after breakfast I decide to start setting up the second crate. I am pretty nervous about this whole operation. One hiss can set me back and push me into hopelessness, while a responding blink by Mitsy and an easy food/litter refresh pushes me right … Read morePreparing the crate extension
July 12, 2021 Day 4 and the family is doing well and all things are quiet, except when we try to refresh the litterbox… Wim gives it a try in the early AM but gets hissed at and semi-charged and decides not to go through with it. Later, as I get up, we go downstairs … Read moreLitterbox annoyances
July 11, 2021 All went well last night by the looks of it. I did wake up at 2:39 am for no specific reason other than a buzzing sound. It was probably in my head but I thought I should check the webcams. Nearly all wet food had gone, so I decided to venture into … Read moreHissy Fits!
July 10, 2021 Mitsy seems to have found a rhythm and we see her and the babies spend a lot of time in the Nest. This is better than having them wander around in the crate and running the risk of getting lost. At 4:30 pm there is a bit of a scare because I … Read moreA peaceful day in the ‘nursery’
July 9, 2021 !We have babies! Do you know that song in the commercial, “We are farmers!”? I sing it to that tune: “We have babies! Taa-tietaa-tietaa-tie tie!”. Six of them! All healthy and suckling at mom’s teets! The first thing I did this morning was check the cat cam. I was awake at 5 … Read moreWe have 6 babies!
July 8, 2021 Today, Thursday, Mitsy is even more restless and vocal than yesterday. Last night she was all over Basecamp, as you can see in the high speed Timelapse video. She went right up to the ceiling cat cam! It makes me check that everything is still safe and secure this morning… All of … Read moreLabour begins and I… fall asleep!
July 7, 2021 Mitsy is more and more restless and vocal today. Lots of crying, lots of climbing the mesh of the crate, clawing the bottom of the crate, all blankies and covers scrunched up… it is hard to watch. I wonder if Mitsy will turn out to be one of those animals that just … Read moreA day of unrest
July 6, 2021 Wim and I are both thinking a lot about the future of this cat and her kittens. The first 2 milestones have been reached smoothly: trapping her and getting her into her birthing shelter safely. Now we are heading to number 3: the birth of the kittens. Then we have 8-12 weeks … Read moreSecond day musings