admin 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
July 6, 2021 As I am writing this, the first 24 hours have passed fairly quietly. After her breakfast (that she has not touched yet, at 7:45 pm), I popped in once late morning to check on her. Did not go close to the crate, just said hello and did a slow eye-blink to signal … Read moreThe first 24 hours in the crate
July 5, 2021 In the 2 weeks preceding the actual trapping of Mitsy, I tried a lot of things to see if we could get her into the house without a trap. She had been visiting our ‘backyard buffet’ since March this year, and she was becoming more and more comfortable with us. When our … Read moreTrapping day is here
Spoiler alert… The article below was written 3 years ago, in part after the ‘Mitsy’project’ had been completed. So there are some photographs and paragraphs that could be considered spoilers… June 25, 2021 There are many shelter solutions available for dogs. Not so much for pregnant cats and new litters, unless you choose to invest … Read moreCreating a safe shelter
May 15, 2021 Finding a trap to catch a cat, whether domesticated or (semi-)feral/stray cat is not hard. Finding a humane one is a lot harder. Finding a humane one in time to try to catch a very pregnant cat is almost impossible. Especially in Covid times… We had to resort to a borrowed trap, … Read moreFinding a humane trap