Our little family is growing

Back in February, I noticed that Mauricio was getting a bit chubby...no surprise as he eats as much as Paquito. In early March I could no longer ignore the fact that he was not a boy but a little girl that kept on getting bigger around the middle.

Much to my dismay Bonnie Mae also showed signs of being pregnant. Unfortunately due to the Corona Virus pandemic, the border with Mexico has been closed to non-essential travel. The last time I checked getting a cat fixed in Del Rio costs $220.00 while in Ciudad Acuña depending on the exchange rate it runs between $65.00 to $75.00 USD plus shots to be able to return to the USA.  So my little girls had Covid-19 kittens :-(

In preparation, I washed all the linens I had inside of the cardboard box...that was inside of a heavy-duty container...to keep it from getting wet and to insulate it against the strong winds.  On Saturday, March 13th Mauricio's kittens were born. She had them under the kitchen as it was a late addition and had to be elevated as my parent's house is at the bottom of a hill.

This past Friday, March 26th Mauricio whose name I will soon have to change brought her kittens out and placed them in the cucha she has shared all these months with Bonnie Mae.  I was able to take two pictures before she came running to make sure I did not harm them.

The pictures make her two-week-old litter look big but they really aren't it is just that I zoomed in to try to count them and I believe there are four of them.

It makes me wonder if they communicate between themselves and both knew that Bonnie Mae would soon give birth and Mauricio decided to free the space under the kitchen so her sister could deliver her kittens in a more protected environment?

This morning when I went to feed them I noticed that she was back to being skinny. As I was getting my chores done I saw Bonnie Mae with a black cat in her mouth going under the kitchen but he looked too big to have just been born.

That is when I went to check their cucha and saw tiny kittens one which stood out since he was light orange and that some of Mauricio's brood were missing...

They are only two weeks old and the cucha is high up on an old table so they had to have been moved by their respective mothers.

It wasn't until I downloaded the pictures to my computer this evening and made them bigger that I noticed that the old flannel pajamas, the green fleece blanket, and the cardboard box itself seemed to be covered with blood.  I suppose Bonnie Mae gave birth to her babies in her cucha.

I had to run errands and when I came back I found Mauricio nursing the little orange kitten as well as another little one and one of her own kids. Why was she nursing her sister's kittens?

So Bonnie Mae had her brood on Saturday, March 27th two weeks after Mauricio gave birth to hers on March 13, 2021.

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