Yet another waif & stray......

This is Caramel, a female ginger kitten who turned up this week at the Barnes-Short Animal Sanctuary. One of Ali's little admirers from school arrived on the doorstep with her, she was wet and terrified, apparently he'd found her stuck up a tree......after a bath and some food, she has made herself at home and now rules the roost, teh dog is scared to get too near her!

Ali's admirers call round every day to see her and carry her around and they've made her a little house in Ali's room. Sweet......

Admirer no. 2 is going to ask his dad if she (the cat, that is, not Ali) can go and live at his house so maybe I won't have to keep this one and spend loads of money on her. Yeah, right.

Cats and dogs......

Well, two of the kittens have gone to their new homes so that just leaves Velcro.

He can't decide whether to play with Poppy or be frightened of her!

 It's OK until Poppy gets excited and barks........

then he's off to hide behind Lali who will attack poor Poppy (and any  cat foolish enough to venture into the house)

One less kitty.....

The kittens are 8 weeks old today and one of them has already gone to his new home:

the little grey and white boy. He's gone to live with a friend of my neighbour, they are calling him Réglisse (liquorice in French). Éowyn didn't want them to take him, she kept saying "it's my mum's cat!" I am taking his grey & white sister to her new home on Thursday, she's been christened Betty, she's going to an English family up near Ribérac. So then it will just be Velcro left......

Kittens again.....

They are getting more and more cute as time goes on. I have just about let Ali persuade me to let her keep the ginger one, Velcro.

The grey & white girl has been found a home, she is now called Betty.

So that just leaves this little guy needing a home......anyone know someone who'd like a kitty?

Kitten update

The kitties are three weeks old now and are finally starting to look like cats! They're wobbling about on their little legs and attempting to escape from the basket. Lali is very patient at picking them up and putting them back in........

The kittens are a week old.......

....but they still look more like ferrets than kittens! The ginger one's eyes are starting to open.

More new arrivals......

The latest cat, Umalali, has been getting fat of late, and not that kind of squidgy fat that Cocktail has but the lumpy, containing babies fat that she shouldn't be able to have, as I had been lead to believe she'd been spayed........

This morning, she started following me around miaowing, which is unusual, she didn't even run away from Éowyn, which is VERY unusal, then at lunchtime I was just sitting down to me fishfinger sarnies and she starts having contractions......out pops a small black bundle, Éowyn finds the whole thing fascinating........

Bit more time goes by, another little black creature arrives, then after that a ginger one. How many, I'm wondering, thinking how am I going to find homes for a load of kittens? but thankfully she stops at three. And very cute they are too......