Kitten-ea

 Well, our one "regular visitor" feral cat, who is just a year old, and partially socialized (we can pet her, and put flea meds on her), decided to have her second littler of kittens here, on our anniversary.

INSIDE of our chiminea. We shall now, and forever more, call this object the Kittenea.

Fortunately, she is staying here, so far.  We are doing our best to take care of her, and protect her kindle of tiny babies.

She gave birth to seven, but there are only six left.  I will not go into gory detail.

The first couple of days were dangerously hot, so we had my umbrella in the chimney part of the Kittenea, and were dousing it with water, and wrapping cold, wet towels around the fire pot part.  Every half hour.

All...Day....

Thursday night, there was a violent storm, with a literal deluge of rain.  We had placed a concrete paver on top of the chimney, which we do anyway, to keep the rain out.... We were so scared that the babies would drown...but they did not.

After work on Friday, we went out and spent $75 we hadn't planned on spending, and bought a pop up canopy tent and tent weights.

That has been helping to keep the bizarre nighttime rains out of the nursery, and to keep the sun off for most of the day.  We also bought a fly for the western side of the tent, and will get that put on today, because it's the westering sun that is the most intense, and there is no protection from it for the Kittenea.

Dave contacted Oklahoma Humane here in OKC, and they are willing to assess the cats.... we just have to bring them in for an appointment on Wednesday. Yes, we have to deliver them ourselves....

SO...we are now feeding mama Sammie in the Have-a-Heart trap.  Hopefully, she will continue to be compliant with staying here, AND eating in the trap, so that we can "spring" it on Wednesday morning.  Then, I can reach in and gather the babies, and put them into a carrier.

We have taken the morning off to do this.

Please wish us all of the luck, and that they will accept this family into their program...

Because if they are rejected, and we have to bring her and the kittens back here as they are now, she will take them away....and the jerk on the other side of the block (who, we just found out from a neighbor, traps our ferals and drives them out to the country to let them go) could remove her from her babies, and they would die. 

In other news, my second treatment was Tuesday, and our 15th wedding anniversary was Wednesday.

It was an interesting week.  

So far, I feel fine, let's hope it stays that way.  I should be hearing from the cardiologist to set up my ECG appointment for next week some time.

Have a good week!