While I was out today, my daughters kept an eye on Brussel and her baby.
The first good news is that Mama has accepted the gift of a cat cave, and moved her baby into it.
The other good news is, there apparently is just one kitten. Not the four or five we usually see!
Unless there are more babies hiding under the fluff, somewhere!
Interestingly, the kitten seems to be a calico around its head and shoulders, but has tabby markings on its back!
While out today, I looked for a telescoping spoon, or something that would allow us to reach her from a distance. I could only find a telescoping camp fork, and that wouldn’t work. I did get some wet cat food in small packets, just for Brussel. After everything was unloaded, I fed the outside cats early, then used a bamboo back scratcher we weren’t using to hold the cat food and give it to her. She was growling every time I was in front of the cat cage and, of course, while I was passing the wet cat food over to her (she still had plenty of dry kibble and water in the cat cage with her). I ended up dropping the chunk of paté right in front of her.
Then I put the back scratcher in the old kitchen, turned around, and there was Gouda, in the cat cage, head in the cat cave, going for Brussel’s wet cat food!
I got him out, but then Magda jumped in, too.
I got her out, then closed up the door on the cat cage. I’ve got a time going right now, to go and open it up again so she can answer the call of nature. There isn’t room for a litter box in there, right now.
I will likely close her up in there again for the night, though, and open it in the morning, to make sure no skunks or racoons go in to steal her food. Either that, or take her food bowl right out for the night. That would probably be better. Otherwise, the racoons will try and break into the cat cage to get at it.
The live feed on the critter cam is going to be heavily used for the next while!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 