As I was saying goodbye to Maisy, Bill and Ben yesterday, I got a call to say that a lady has been feeding a pregnant stray. She had already contacted the RSPCA (who told her to stop feeding the cat and it would go away) and CP who told her to phone us.
Last tuesday the stray came for its usual feed minus the bump.
The woman ignored thr RSPCA's advice and has been feeding the cat 4 times a day then following it to see if she could find out where the kittens were. The cat kept eluding her but she had narrowed it down to 6 houses.
I went round last night and spoke to all the people and searched all the gardens bar one - where the woman said she would look herself.
This morning following the cat after its early morning feed, she of course went to the 'bar one' lady and squeezed into a hole in the shed.
So with mum cat having her 2nd feed of the day in the house, I rushed round. The lady was adamant that she had looked in the shed (only about 4ft x 4ft) but having taken most of the stuff out - hey presto! there they were. Kittens in the carrier and then mum was collected from the lady feeding her.
Relief all round (I didn't sleep much last night , was up at 4am and ready to rush round Maplins to buy a loc8tor!), and so without further ado.....
drum roll.....



I'm thinking of calling the mum cat Pippa, the two torties Blip and Vienna and the two black and whites Kocka and Star - what do you think?
