Was minding my own business playing the xbox this morning when mother darling knocked on the door. I was expecting her (I was being bribed with lunch to help cart stuff down the dump), but not this early.
She tells me I need to come and look at something, in a manner I initially find highly suspicous. I follow her over to Nan JR's flat and am shown the shed.
Lo and behold in the corner, nestling on top of an old bag, are 5 tiny kittens. Estimated at 10 days old, they're only just opening their eyes and aren't big enough to walk yet. I see one tabby mog in amongst the mewing bundles (who are mostly black and white) and immediately know precisely what Bec would want if she was here.
In the meantime figure I better phone the Blue Cross to figure out what on earth to do with them. As I'm on the way back over to my flat I meet Kelly, next door neighbour, who asks have we seen a bunch of kittens as she's seen Mother cat wailing.
Turns out she realised they were underneath her window nestling in a hedge last night. She phoned a Cat charity who said they'd send someone in the morning. However, during the night, ma had transported them across the road to my Nans shed, which has a broken lock and so is open all the time.
To cut the story short Kelly speaks to the Cat Protection people who say if we get hold of the mother and keep them all together, someone will be round shortly. Mother is sat underneath a car on the road and is easily tempted out by a plate of cat nosh. Kelly picks her up and she doesn't struggle at all, which suggests she isn't wild. She doesn't have a collar on. I wonder if her owners have kicked her out when they found she was pregnant. I hope not.
Cat protection woman is round within 20 minutes. Mother cat is in the shed which we've managed to shut with the whole family in there. I open the door slowly and grab mother before she shoots off, and she now puts up a right struggle to be put in the cage. I get away with only three scratches. I then move all the tools around to get to the furballs right at the back of the cage. All 5 are extracted- they're only so big they easily fit in the palm of my hand.
I took the chance to grab a couple of photos with the phone. The kittens were a wriggly bunch and because it was dark it was quite a long exposure- but a few have come out ok:
And here's all 5 of them in the box on the way off to somewhere safer than a shed :-)
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