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Whether it’s Lyla’s babies, or Chili’s babies or Dali’s babies–we really do have the most beautiful kittens–every single time!!
Of course the hardest part is always that they work their way into our hearts…
just in time…
to look at the calendar…
and see that they are the perfect age…
to find them…
a new home.
Look at those sweet faces!
It’ll be tough…this time.
Welllllll, it’s not what we’d planned but bossy little Dali decided that she wanted the babies out of the laundry room and into the family room…under my sewing machine. Good grief.
I’m certainly not a bit convinced that it’s a good idea–but Miss Hazel certainly didn’t mind.
While she was holding this little one, Dali jumped up on her lap and grabbed the kitty by the scruff of her neck and took her back over to the blanket. Nothing aggressive about this little mom cat! Haha.
This baby fascinates me. We’ve never had a totally black kitty before!
Oh, Dali, Dali. I’ll give this a couple of days and THEN we’re going to make other arrangements that don’t include new kitties on my carpet. We’ll just see how you like that.
Bossy mom cat.
Sheesh.
So, I’m just sitting at my desk, minding my own business when I hear a tiny squeek. Ohhhh….man. I know what that means. Dali is not in the pretty little basket that I fixed for her to have her babies in, back in the laundry room.
Nooooo….she’s laying in the kitty couch…in the family room. On closer inspection, I see that she already has a teeny little baby snuggled in with her! What the heck?!!!
Nothing shy about this girl! Instead of hiding away somewhere she is in the middle of the room with both Hobbes AND Lyla asleep just a few feet away
There is absolutely NO CHANCE that she and a few babies would ever fit in that silly thing.
So bizarre.
In a panic, I got very, very brave and picked up the whole couch and put it all in the laundry room basket where I wanted her to be, in the first place. Scooting her off the couch and into the basket–while she is still in the birthing mode was quite the feat–let me tell you! But she was awesome and we did it.
She very quickly had two more babies–three total. We have a brown stripe, a black stripe and a solid black.
SOOOOO cute!!!
She seems comfortable and content.
Now if she’ll only stay put.
Fingers crossed.
I actually had to check twice to make sure Dali wasn’t….
you know…
dead.
She wasn’t. Just spoofin’ around.
Odd duck.
Speaking of which…
they’re everywhere.
“THAT, my young Padawan, it the sound of a sparrow on the roof.”
“Really Uncle Hobbes?! When do we get to eat it?”
“Soon, Grasshopper. Soon.”