Just when I thought it was safe to go shopping (for pet food) I find out the opposite is true.
Yesterday, while I was in Albany at Target, I came out of the store and was loading bags of food into my trunk. As I was getting into my car, I heard this really loud meow. Startled, the first thing I did was check my car to see if any of the barn cats had hopped in going for a joy ride. Nope- just Brook in the back seat drooling away.
Once more, I heard this meow and it was close. The parking lot was full of cars and I looked around to see if someone had locked a kitty in a car and it was in distress. Nope??I listened really hard and did my kitty call and underneath my car now, I heard it again, more persistent- MEOW!!!
Kneeling down, I see this beautiful calico girl huddling underneath my car. I should have turned my cat magnet off before I left the house. I bribed her out with food, and she was starving (and pregnant) of course! Sigh??.. I got her into one of my cat carriers and ran her over to my vet whose clinic is nearby. He informs me she is ready to pop any day- GREAT!
So she is upstairs hissing her fool head off at me right now, but she will allow me to touch her. I know she is just protecting herself and her soon-to-be kittens. And I just adopted out 7 cats to various homes too!
Mike just laughed when I got home with the cat. I just hope she throws kittens of color as they are so much easier to place in homes. With my luck though, she will probably produce pure black kittens! LOL
I am calling her Mamasan. In certain ways she reminds me of a childhood cat we called Princess.
It never fails! We thought we were done with kittens, too, but then a new part-Siamese young female adult showed up on our front porch. And she’s probably pregnant, too. Don’t know how long she had been on her own, but she was terribly thin and starving. Our vet is out of commission, having cataract surgery, so we’ll have to wait a few weeks before we’ll know whether we can have her spayed or whether we’ll have to wait until after she gives birth if she is pregnant…
I do not understand people who dump their cute little kitties once they are old enough to come into heat. I know that spaying is not cheap, but I think our vet (the only one in this small town) would accept payments if the person would work together with him on a payment schedule…
What a sweet story!!! I love the fact that she found you, a person who knows how to help her, and not some crazed loony instead.
I hope that she has mixed colored kittens too, I know all about the black ones. The rescue I volunteer for has black cats coming out their ears. They have to put colors on so they can tell them apart.
Good luck to you and your new family!!!