no time for a kitty alert
holy fuck shadow has already dropped two kittens in the box we were preparing for her just in case our hunch she was preggers was right
it was so very right 🙀
so far looks like the conventional wisdom is "just give her food, litter, water, and a nesting box and LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE" but if you have any other advice we are not in a position to turn it away
especially about just how much poop i should expect to clean off my floor in the next 6-8 weeks 🙀🙀🙀
brace yrselves, if things do get veterinarily complicated there will almost certainly need to be a gofundme because we were already getting close to flat broke
thank god my boss still loves me
trivial correction
(sugarfoot, not shadow, in the above post -- thankfully peg gave shadow a cursory belly exam and, well, if she's pregnant too she's not nearly as far along **sigh** )
@zebratron2084 a GoFundMe for neutering/spaying expenses might be appropriate. I wonder if there’s a trap/neuter/return project in the area already; clearly there needs to be one
@kistaro There's a TNR program but we were really holding out for a vet, 'cause these guys... aren't our cats, but they're not not our cats, and we weren't sure if a TNR program would handle them with the kid gloves we'd prefer, or by relied upon not to release them elsewhere or something, I was just getting the focus together to resume doing the research today... and then bang, mew. :)
@zebratron2084 They will look you right in the eye and go 'meee' with their little shiny blue eyes and totter a stop towards you and then there'll be urine and poop and the kitten will look so confused that you'll almost be able to forgive them.
@Soreth luckily my first reaction was "let's give her a few minutes to recover from the first kitten... and then let's very gently move this box to MY room where the floor is linoleum and can be rendered completely devoid of competing physical objects esp. porous ones D:
we will do what we can for you sugarfoot, we even decided if there's a complication, yeah, we will find a 24 hr vet and go into debt for you
no greater love hath dragon and tiger for stupid horny minipanther and her... two so far... adorable thrashing gremlin lumps
i just really hope your mom isn't in similar straits, though i guess we do have another box and sacrificable blanket 🙀