yesterday, a good friend called me and said she had a dilemma. For a few days now near her home by the river, she has noticed this Siamese mix and her 5 babies by her home. The other day, Midge said, Mom took one of the babies and when she came back (hours later) she was alone. She laid down quickly with the remaining kittens, but then left again with another kitten- she had been gone 5 hours!

Midge said she was sorry to call me- she knows we are up to our arms in kittens, but she had no other recourse. I went over and picked up the three babies- they almost inhaled the first bottle of milk, they are starving.

I got up early this morning and went back over to the place she had left the kittens hoping to find her looking for them. Turns out, she had come back again and been coaxed inside a cat carrier and was waiting for me! My friend,Midge, she rocks!

When I got her back and put her with her babies, the mystery was solved. if she is 8 months old, I will be surprised and she has NO milk! none,but her family was happy to see her and so was I. Now she is in a cage with her family  in our front room. She is doing a lot of growling- but she is not feral. She has been dumped. She is bone skinny and inhaled 2 cans of food in under 8 minutes!

I am calling her Smidge in honor of the lady who first spotted her. She threw two boys and one girls- two Siamese babies and one black one. Their names are Silverton, Pinkerton and Grace.