All the kittens are almost eight weeks old now and they are ready for their new homes. There’s at least seventeen kittens now, ten in the house and another seven outside. There could be more that we haven’t seen yet. The outside cats have their litters in the woods and we don’t get to see them until maybe week four or five. By then, the kittens have not been handled and so are afraid of people. We usually see them only when they are scurrying away to hide. One thing that they all have in common is their cuteness.

The newest bunch is about six weeks old and we have them inside. Their mother refuses to feed them and growls at them. At this point my husband and I are their surrogate parents. We fed them with a dropper for the first two days and then they started eating on their own.

We took all the inside kittens to the Vet to get them wormed and checked over. All of them were certified healthy, happy, and ready to grace the homes of new owners. The new bunch resides in the room where the computer is and they love to “help” write these blogs. They all climb up in the lap of whomever is writing, sometimes to sleep, sometimes to explore all the neat things that they find.

Sometimes we think about mixing the litters so that they will have some friends to play with but, if we did, we might not be able to separate them. There are so many little ones that look alike, we might not be able to get them back to their own mothers. As far as we can tell, the father(s) must be all black or tiger striped. Most of the kittens show these two types of colors.

(I promise to stop blogging about cats and kittens very soon.)