I went to see if I could find where Poirot moved her kittens. I opened the inner door of the old kitchen – and Poirot jumped up and out the window of the outer door.
I found her babies.
She have moved all three of them in between the doors!
Well, it certainly would have been cooler there, but obviously, that wasn’t going to work!
I put them back into the carrier, the put the cover over it, without fastening it, hoping she would be okay with the “cave” being back.
Then my daughter and I watched her on the critter cam, grabbing a baby and disappearing out of frame. By the time I moved the camera, I could no longer see her.
She had moved one of her babies in between the doors again.
In the end, I went digging in a closet for one of those sun shields for inside car windshields, designed to keep the interior from getting too hot. It used to be in my mother’s car, but we never used it. I took it and set it around the back of the shelf the carrier had been in, to block the sunlight. Then I moved the carrier with the babies back to the shelf. Hopefully, between the frozen water bottles, the sun shield, wetting down the floor, thing will be cooler for her and the babies. Once we have more frozen ice packs, I have some I can put on top of the carrier, too.
I’m watching the critter cam now, but Poirot has left the sun room and hasn’t gone back up to the carrier to try and move them again.
This is not a problem I ever expected to have with a feral cat!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 