Chauncey, who is stepping allover my keyboard at the moment- slept with Mike all night long. Now she is pestering me as I type trying out her prowness on the keyboard and creating some interesting commands for my computer to figure out.
Yesterday, I pulled Reese’s kittens off of her. This poor mom has given it her all to these babies, and although I was feeding her 8 times a day and giving supplements, she is zapped. The babies are in with the others so now our bedroom houses ten kittens! To say it is disaster zone is an understatement.
Reece doesn’t seem to care that the kittens are gone which concerns me a bit, because most queens go crazy during the weaning period. But Reese is bone thin and she doesn’t have anything left to give her family. I have her outside with the others in the introduction cage. I think she is relieved her motherly duties are over. The babies are eating on their own and are healthy and roly-poly fat!
Sometimes it seems like the really young mothers don’t seem to know for sure how to handle the older kittens. Calleigh didn’t seem all that upset when three of her brood just disappeared one day. She still seems to play with her kittens more like another kitten than a momma cat. (of course, she still isn’t quite a year old, which might have something to do with that)
PS: Is Chauncey the panther kittie those hikers found?
Yes, she is the kitten the hikers found. She’s a charmer this one-
If Reece’s kittens are fat, then they can give their mum a break. It sounds like she’s done very well by them.