Our stray with kittens - pics and video

[Randi]

I called the lady from the shelter the other day, and also e-mailed the shelter. She has been trying to trap the mom cat for almost a year now, but the cat simply won't have it! She has had two litters since and this can't go on - she agrees about that. The plan is to trap/spay/vaccinate her and put her back in our yard. So she came again yesterday and got two of them.


This shows the mom quite clearly. She is such a good mom and also a good hunter. She does hunt even though she gets fed twice every day. I saw her the other day carrying a young pigeon (the ones that normally lives in woods), and the caretaker saw her stalk a squirrel who had gone astray and ended up in our yard. Don’t think she got that squirrel, though.


Here she is again with four of her kittens. She brought them over here about two weeks ago.


They are full of energy and loves to play.


I went down to get a few more shots and could get quite close. This kitten is just adorable!


Today, I helped her trap two more. They were taken to the shelter and will hopefully find homes.

She told me that alone this year she has trapped 400 cats. I hope there aren't many left that are not spayed/neutered!

I have a few video clips, too. Let’s see if this works!

[Karen]

Such adorable kittens, and yes the videos work! I hope you are able to catch momma soon!

[krazyaboutkatz]

The mother sure is gorgeous and hopefully she'll be able to be trapped soon so she can be spayed. Her kittens are so adorable and will hopefully all find wonderful loving homes very soon.

For some reason I've been having problems getting videos on photobucket to play correctly for me. They play almost like a slide show or very slowly. I don't know if I have to update something on my computer or what. I never used to have this problem.

[Laura's Babies]

That Mama cat is so lovely! She looks well fed too!


Now those kittens are adoreable! Just to cute for words! I love how they are marked, so darn CUTE!

[Randi]

Ha! Yes Karen you can view anything, can't you! Tell me... is it better to stream them as .AVI. Only, the quality goes even more when I do that, but I know someone who can't view MPEG-4, but .AVI is no problem. We're talking e-mail here - I don't think it's possible to upload .AVI to Photobucket. Are you ever going to let us upload videos here?

I do hope the sweet girl will cooperate soon, she really does need to get spayed!

Tracy, I had the same problem watching videoes on photobucket... until I upgraded my system recently. You might want to do that.

If you have QuickTime on your machine, I can e-mail the videoes to you.

Laura, that kitten by the wheel is just too cute for words! I wonder how Fister would feel about her/him.

[lizbud]

Great pictures of momma & kittens. Is the baby by the tire the
same kitten that was climbing in the tree? Sooo cute.

A hungry momma is easier to trap than a well fed one, since food is
the lure to get her into the trap. Maybe if she would miss a meal or two,
she would be easier to get her in to be spayed. Just a thought.

[Randi]

Liz, judging from that cute nose, I think it may be he same. That one ís still down there and I'm in love. However, I don't expect to live for another 20 years, so I wouldn't adopt a kitten - and gosh, what would Fister say!!

If only the shelter lady told us when she is coming, we wouldn't feed her, but she don't always know. She is driving from one place to the other to set traps.

The two remaining kittens didn't go in today.

[phesina]

Oh, what lovely pictures of such fine, beautiful kitties!

Hopes and wishes and prayers that Mom gets trapped soon, hopefully before starting another litter, and all find new, permanent, wonderful homes.

God bless you and all who are working so hard on behalf of these strays.