Events: haha. I was wrong
Sep. 24th, 2024 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loloteheI had said three kittens and we were two weeks away.
It was one kitten and born today.
At about 4 AM, Doctor Girlfriend was meowing loudly enough to be heard in the other room.
When I went to check on her, she ran from box to box (I'd left several cardboard boxes in the room), then finally went into the cat-carrier with the towel in it. She kneaded the towel and meowed.
"Oh, it's that time, huh?" I asked her. "You want to have them there?" So I moved the old t-shirts from the other box and put them in the back of the carrier. Then she REALLY started kneading and purring loudly.
And I had to go to work.
I had scenarios in my head all day. Premature kittens? Still-born? Is she going to eat them? Am I going to find a dead kitten in the litter-box?
Got home and she ran to the door when I went to see. No more belly.
"Well, let's see them," I told her and checked the box.
One kitten. I checked the box and--yeah--just one kitten. A little black squirmy thing who has a set of LUNGS and cried when when I picked it up. No idea on sex yet, but it has white feet. I put it back in the box and DG ran in to check her baby and feed it some more.
So, I was wrong about the number and timing, but this also explains the relative lack of size and why there was no lack of appetite (and why I thought we were further out).
Male or female, I'm calling it Libra for now.
It was one kitten and born today.
At about 4 AM, Doctor Girlfriend was meowing loudly enough to be heard in the other room.
When I went to check on her, she ran from box to box (I'd left several cardboard boxes in the room), then finally went into the cat-carrier with the towel in it. She kneaded the towel and meowed.
"Oh, it's that time, huh?" I asked her. "You want to have them there?" So I moved the old t-shirts from the other box and put them in the back of the carrier. Then she REALLY started kneading and purring loudly.
And I had to go to work.
I had scenarios in my head all day. Premature kittens? Still-born? Is she going to eat them? Am I going to find a dead kitten in the litter-box?
Got home and she ran to the door when I went to see. No more belly.
"Well, let's see them," I told her and checked the box.
One kitten. I checked the box and--yeah--just one kitten. A little black squirmy thing who has a set of LUNGS and cried when when I picked it up. No idea on sex yet, but it has white feet. I put it back in the box and DG ran in to check her baby and feed it some more.
So, I was wrong about the number and timing, but this also explains the relative lack of size and why there was no lack of appetite (and why I thought we were further out).
Male or female, I'm calling it Libra for now.
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Date: 2024-09-25 03:52 am (UTC)(I came over here from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
disgruntledgirl 's journal, and am glad for the kitten update! I am glad it all seems to be good so far, even if this was a bit of a surprise.)
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From:DG is a very good mama
From:I am stoked she had her kitten
Date: 2024-09-25 08:48 pm (UTC)Libra has mommy's lungs.