As it was such a surprise for myself I don't know if I put it all down in the right order but I will try.
Yesterday a cat was hanging around my apartment building, a young tortoiseshell with white female (I didn't know that it was a female then) who apparently was just exploring or patrolling the street.
As I am a big cat lover and already knew her to be friendly I decided to let her come in for a while and check my place out, my intention was to put her outside later again so she would go home.
She did go out again but later that afternoon was sitting in front of my living room window.
Silly cat lover that I am I decided to her in once more and allow her to stay until it would start to become dark, after which I wanted her to come home.
The cat really didn't like Zippy and Vlammetje but wanted to hang out around me, and had taken a spot on my bed while I was sitting behind my computer, once in a while stroking her.
I kept the door to the living room somewhat closed so that my cats would not wander in and cause a fuzz with her.
But after having gone through some files I turned around to check out my visitor again and put her outside, when I noticed something next to her.
As you can all probably guess she had just given birth to a kitten, and in the next forty minutes she gave birth to two more; one white with red spots, and two tortoiseshell with white kittens.
It made a bit of a mess but that is irrelevant.
Suddenly there I was with a queen (female cat) and kittens that don't belong to me, having no idea of to who they belong.
Well I could not put them outside so I made a place for her and the kittens next to my computer, and put some food and water there for the mother.
This morning I contacted the animal ambulance with the question of what I should do next.
As today is a holiday in the Netherlands all animal shelters are closed and the animal ambulance can not pick up the mother and her babies and just drop them off without permission from the shelter.
Later a couple of people of the animal ambulance did drop by to check out the mom and her kittens and check if she had a chip or matched any missing cat reports.
She doesn't have a chip but as she looks well fed I am pretty sure she belongs to someone, but how do you find that out so easily.
For now I have decided she can stay until I can contact the shelter tomorrow and have them picked up.
All of this was quite a surprise for me as the mother was quite a small cat herself and she didn't look pregnant at all.
But the little kittens all look healthy and are cute to look at, sleeping next to mommy when they aren't drinking.
The mother herself is also healthy, once in a while leaving the nest I made for her to eat or drink.
Yesterday a cat was hanging around my apartment building, a young tortoiseshell with white female (I didn't know that it was a female then) who apparently was just exploring or patrolling the street.
As I am a big cat lover and already knew her to be friendly I decided to let her come in for a while and check my place out, my intention was to put her outside later again so she would go home.
She did go out again but later that afternoon was sitting in front of my living room window.
Silly cat lover that I am I decided to her in once more and allow her to stay until it would start to become dark, after which I wanted her to come home.
The cat really didn't like Zippy and Vlammetje but wanted to hang out around me, and had taken a spot on my bed while I was sitting behind my computer, once in a while stroking her.
I kept the door to the living room somewhat closed so that my cats would not wander in and cause a fuzz with her.
But after having gone through some files I turned around to check out my visitor again and put her outside, when I noticed something next to her.
As you can all probably guess she had just given birth to a kitten, and in the next forty minutes she gave birth to two more; one white with red spots, and two tortoiseshell with white kittens.
It made a bit of a mess but that is irrelevant.
Suddenly there I was with a queen (female cat) and kittens that don't belong to me, having no idea of to who they belong.
Well I could not put them outside so I made a place for her and the kittens next to my computer, and put some food and water there for the mother.
This morning I contacted the animal ambulance with the question of what I should do next.
As today is a holiday in the Netherlands all animal shelters are closed and the animal ambulance can not pick up the mother and her babies and just drop them off without permission from the shelter.
Later a couple of people of the animal ambulance did drop by to check out the mom and her kittens and check if she had a chip or matched any missing cat reports.
She doesn't have a chip but as she looks well fed I am pretty sure she belongs to someone, but how do you find that out so easily.
For now I have decided she can stay until I can contact the shelter tomorrow and have them picked up.
All of this was quite a surprise for me as the mother was quite a small cat herself and she didn't look pregnant at all.
But the little kittens all look healthy and are cute to look at, sleeping next to mommy when they aren't drinking.
The mother herself is also healthy, once in a while leaving the nest I made for her to eat or drink.
