The kittens emerged from the water heater closet

I finally got a glimpse of the kittens late this afternoon even though I hear them cry all the time because both Luna and Laura take their sweet time feeding them. I went to bring in some clothes I had hanging outside when I saw a whitish kitten following Luna around as it cried loudly.

I was surprised that it was clearly a Siamese kitten with beautiful blue eyes. I wonder if Suzie (the now six-month-old cat someone dumped at Mom's house) and this kitten share the same father? 

By the time I found my phone and went back outside Luna was nursing what looked to be three kittens. I think she had four or five and her daughter Laura had three. It is hard to photograph dark-colored cats.

       

 It has been very warm lately...today we reached 90 degrees...so maybe that is why they decided to emerge from the water heater closet?  They are two days away from turning three weeks old.  

One thing that Luna hates is when her kittens start to cry...it gets on her nerves and she will quit feeding them. At least Laura who is a first-time momma cat has more patience and spends time with them. In contrast to Luna who goes off and leaves her litter behind.   

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Lost and found...twice

Last Tuesday, April 4th Bianca did not show up for breakfast which is rare for her as she and the quadruplets are always hungry. I went looking for her all over Mom's property to no avail. She did not show up for supper either.

Bianca is not one to leave the property like some of the older cats. Even though she turned 6 months old on April 7th she looks smaller for her age.

The following day she showed up and I was so happy to see her even though she looked like she had rolled around in the dirt. She was very hungry but otherwise looked well. I had placed a collar on both her and Suzie but their neck was still too thin so I had taken them off so they would not lose them. 

I decided to place another one in case she got lost so people would know that she had an owner and was not a stray. I took so many pictures of her but they were not any good until the last one...she looked like she was smiling and happy to pose :-D

Then on Thursday, April 6th, the same thing happened but this time it was Suzie who went missing! Do these cats want to kill me or something? Suzie is the Siamese cat that someone dumped on the property when she was about six weeks old. At the time Bianca was 3-weeks old and Luna (her mother) had already killed her two siblings and did not want to feed her anymore.

Bianca and Suzie bonded and were welcomed by the then quintuplets who are now quadruplets after Karen's passing. Grayson the quintuplets mother would nurse them every once in a while.

Suzie returned on Saturday, April 8th looking thin, with sad eyes, and a lack of appetite. Suzie and Bianca both got well. It wasn't until Tuesday, April 11th when I had to run several errands in town that I fed the cats earlier than usual that I saw that Bianca did not look well. She did not want to eat and curled up by Dad's old car and went to sleep.

When I got back to the house Bianca was in the same location that I left her but she had flies swirling around her. I picked her up and brought her inside the house. It was like a Deja vu of what I went through when Karen passed.

I knew then that she did not have long. A placed her on a cardboard box as I held her little paw and thanked her for having come into my life. She passed and I took her outside to our pet cemetery. The desert ground is too rocky and hard for me to dig a hole. I was looking for some peat moss to cover her with when Muñeca came around. She walked up to Bianca, smelled her, and perhaps said goodbye to her cousin.

Within two months I have lost two cats and that is never easy. Rest in peace my little Bianca.

They moved the maternity ward / Laura

It has been cool during the evening but very warm during the day, we reached 95 degrees this afternoon. This morning I cracked open one of the kitchen windows which faces north. Here I have a birds-eye view of the old washing machine where the "cucha" that holds the kittens and their mothers is located...I call it the maternity ward.

I was washing the dishes when I noticed Luna and her daughter whom after a year I have finally named...Laura... were moving the kittens and thus the maternity ward to the water heater closet.

I knew Luna would do that sooner or later as she has with her previous litters. She can not tolerate her kittens crying yet she makes no effort to nurse them as they are hungry. Laura can not nurse and groom them by herself while Luna takes naps and acts like she did not give birth to them.

There are some good mama cats as well as worthless ones and I am afraid that Luna falls in the latter category.

This gave me the opportunity to throw out the three plastic garbage bags that I wrap the cat bed up with to protect it. As soon as I have a chance I will go to the laundromat and wash the beds.

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