Category: Posts: Minnie and kittens

Now that they are over the giardia (knock on wood), Mamba’s kittens are good eaters – and it’s paying off! They are filling out, their coats are improved, and they are starting to look like happy kittens instead of homeless waifs.

I bring in two large plates, but they usually start out all eating from the same plate, even though the food is the same. They seem to like shoving in and eating together.

Mamba’s kittens had a chance to go out of their room and explore the long hall today, and they found some interesting things. There’s a big mirror, the first one they’ve ever seen.

Mamba and her kittens are outgrowing the “pop-up” they’ve been living in. It’s a very nice space for them to be confined in, but we’ve been letting them out to explore, and they’re ready to be out all the time.

Part of the reason for confinement is so that we can get Mamba herself used to people. She is not super trusting, and she needed to have people close so we could convey that we were pretty safe to be around her kittens. Now that I can (usually) pet her, she can be out of confinement.

There was an urgent need for someone to foster another mom and kittens coming from the same farm as Hazel. It’s not a good situation – new farm owner who was threatening to shoot all the cats. So 9 Lives Rescue got permission to go in and remove as many as they could.

So we said we’d take one more mom and babies. The all-black mom is called Black Mamba, and she has two black kittens, two black with white paws and markings, and one calico. They’re set up in a “pop-up” in our daughter’s old room. Mom’s pretty thin, and the babies are a pretty scrawny lot, but they’ve landed in a better place now. Here’s a quick snapshot:

Three is going to be a lot, but at least these are already born! They were born on May 3, so they’re already five weeks old. I believe it, because they are walking well – strong on their legs – but they’re awfully little for 5 weeks.