This morning, there wasn’t good news on the kitten front. Mom had only three kittens in with her and “Mack Dabby”, this gorgeous boy with gray and white striped paws was off in the corner all by himself. 🙁 The good news is, we had prepared for that possibility and I had put out several blankets with heating pads under them. Thankfully, he was stretched out on one of them. I wish they were eating better though. Pulling out all our tricks to make that happen.

Mom is sweet and I finally got to really look at her. She has one nipple that might be producing, I notice a tug of war going on with the babies when they get close to her belly over that one spot. But she has nothing left in her except love. Normally, we would take her away from the babies to build her back up nutritionally, but in this case, that’s not the plan. She loves these babies and has given her all to them. She has places she can get to away from them in the area, and she panics when we take one into the other room to feed them. She’s so young too, this just breaks my heart that she has had to deal with being a mom. Will try to remove her mats today- there are so many especially under her legs. She’s a long-hair tuxedo girl.

Will try to keep you updated, but right now, our battle is in keeping the family healthy and getting the babies to take in more food.

Update: the second male is now home after his neuter. We decided to name him NAO- stands for “Not Another One!” LOL The golden, mellow sweet boy is named Solo in honor of another orange ginger who passed last year.