The heat is on!

Heat is only bearable if you don't have to do anything like my cats! 100 plus days and I've finally had to turn on the air. I dread the bills. I'm trying to keep my flowerbeds damp so they have a cool spot to lay, outside.
The cats got it easy tho, they just lay around till after dark till it cools down some before they do anything much!
One of Button's little ones jumped off the couch and is hurt in one front leg. She isn't eating or nursing so I got her some water with an eye dropper and she really lapped it up. I think that she's got to be dehidrated in this heat. I was afraid she was sick, but her eyes are clear. She is crying, but it was from pain in her shoulder, leg or foot. There's no swelling so can't tell yet. If it's not one thing it's another. Stay in and stay cool!

Now getting a little rest.

Well I did shoot one of the cayotes, and a coon, so it is a little more quiet here now. I regret I didn't kill them both, as I hate to wound any animal, but maybe they get the word out "No more free meals".
The kitten I stepped on didn't make it. I hope to not ever do that again, poor baby. I'll have so many under foot soon, It maybe impossible!
The wild mama returned with her babies, too. I don't see them all at one time, so I presume they are all there.

The little ones are beginning to play with each other, moms, everything. They're only a month old but all are doing good. I'm putting a small dish of water down now as it is so hot every evening in here. The temps are at 100+.

They'll soon be eating and that means pooping, and the whole litter box training thing, too.

Back to losses!

Well I'm back from trip and cats who are still here are fine, but several have disappeared and it is cayotes. I've lost of course the favorite gentle ones who never leave the yard. Dee Dee is gone. Jenifer, too. Fang and little Betty Boop and Dee Dee's little brother and at least two 0r three outside cats.
It has been easy pickins for them with no fence to keep them out and no dog to bark at them.
One wild mama[Sheba] is gone, but she could have moved all her five kittens for safety. Her one daughter with the two little ones is still here and okay, but the one cayote was after them last night.

They are keeping me awake looking for them with the shot gun. I'm getting grumpier by the day!
They'll be no warning shots.

On an even sadder note, I stepped on one of Skeez babies and even tho he's still alive it's just barely. If he makes it to morning, I'll take him to work with me and let the inturn look at him and if he can recover, decide on what to do. He's of course the cutest and black and was curled up on the corner of a dark rug and I was carrying a heavy laundry basket and didn't see him. They now have them under my computer desk and they toddle out now. Silly young mamas. I should have been more careful, tho. I'm just sick about hurting him.

Two sisters!

My two sisters, Buttons and Skeezix are fighting over where all the kittens should be. Buttons keep stealing Skeez's kittens and Skeez steals them back and puts them all in her box. They are just a few days apart in age, so if both will feed all five, they will make it good.

I hope they get it settled before I head out on the float trip! Krazy Kats!

Bout time!

Well it's about time I returned to this. The losses in my cat population kept me from wanting to write about it. When I lost my fave, beautiful little Bobbie, I was heart broken. Time has healed and a whole new herd has just arrived, this past week. Late for normal cat breeding in this area.

None of Annies second litter last fall, survived, but she now has had four big healthy babies and three are bobtailed, actually tailless, one 3 colored, one yellow, one white with gray spots, and a mostly black with a tail. I don't know how I got three bobs, as I don't know of any bob toms anywhere in my neighborhood.

My old cat, Buffy had 8 in my kitchen in the corner of my cupboard, and now she's moved them to behind the washer. One was very weak, and I can't find it, now. She again has one little runt that is tiny and I would try to feed it if I could get to it. Poor Buffy had mastitis with her first litter and can't feed them all at once which leaves the least ones even weaker.

Sugar bred in Jan. and her two are doing well at nine weeks and are ready to give away. They are both black tux marked, a boy and a girl named Jack and Jill. and they are regularly tormented by big sister Dee Dee.
Annie's daughter, Jennifer lost hers, early, but Skeezix had three[blk,blk tux, wt/dark spots] and Buttons had two tiny ones [blk w/tux]. Both are good mamas.

Of Betty Boop, Ashly, Ember, one black one outside, and little Dee Dee, I hope are barren!

Of the outside wild ones, Sheba has five little dark wild babies, and one of her daughters has two.

I don't know if I'm blessed or cursed. The deal with the vet interns didn't happen before they were bred, so I'm stuck again with all these babies. I know realisticlly they won't all make it tho.
I've got to get them all spayed! If I was independitly wealth they would be!

Got head to work, so I can support them!