Briar
with only a few days to go
The
kittens Journey begins with our life going on hold waiting
for the queens to go into labour (approx 63 days after
visiting Lordy). We have found our girls like us to be
present at the birthing & Brent is chief Mid wife with
Abbey.
Cinders with her
litter 1 day
old.
The kittens begin
their days in one of our bedrooms in a cozy den with an
electric blanket. For the first three weeks all they do is
eat, sleep & put on weight.
Photo of very
proud mum - Laura with her 9 babies at 6 days old
Laura has done
very well looking after nine babies, she takes after her
mother Briar & can count her kittens she feeds four,
then organizes the other five and feeds them.
Photo taken 13 days
old. Laura decided that she wanted all her kittens tucked
up in our bed rather than in her nesting box. I must add
the bed was made! I just pulled back covers to locate the
kittens & snap photo
Caro
with her litter at 11 days old.
They
have been busy feeding , sleeping and growing-
Their
eyes are just starting to open.
All
our kittens start off in one of our bedrooms where we can
keep a good eye on them - they get use to humans handling
them very early in life! We have had to move them into the
dinning room at night because Caro kept bringing kittens
into Abbey's bed in the middle of the night!!!
Caro
is back to her old tricks, one of her favourite fetching
balls is once again in the nest.
3
weeks old.
Toy
of the week is Buzzy Bee. Caro is too funny how she has to
take toys to her kittens.
Week
3 Their
ear canals are now completley open & sense of hearing is
developing. Their sense of smell is developed.Their
eyes are fully open and blue & will remain blue for some
weeks.
Week 4 The
kittens are starting to walk about - very wobbly.
It's
time to move out of Abbey's bedroom as they can escape from
their warm den - they cannot regulate their body temperature
for the first three weeks
and we keep them warm with an
electric blanket.
Kittens
are now moved into he "Big kitten"
pen in our bathroom. They are beginning to meet more humans
who visit the room - who can't resist petting a kitten? They
can hear our dog, Mack who looks into the bathroom window. They are just
begining to be toilet trained & eating solids.
