So I headed outside to do a quick walk around. The storm hit while I was in the sun room, checking on the littles.
There were these ones.
The tabby leaning back blissfully is the kitten I found in the garage (still no side of the second one I saw briefly). The other two are from the litter of four Lady Hypotenose brought into the sun room.
There are quite a lot of “missing” kittens. I am pretty sure at least a couple were taken somewhere else by their mothers, but I haven’t seen Lady Hypotenose’s black and white today, and there is another white and grey/black that I couldn’t see.
There was one place they could be that I can’t look in. At least, not normally. I tried to “look” by using my phone’s camera. It took several failures before I finally got this photo.
Oh, my goodness. I just went looking at photos I took, the first time we saw Lady Hypotenose’s babies. The black and white I posted a picture of earlier is NOT Lady Hypotenose’s. That one had a black noce and chin, which I can see in the above photo.
So the two on the right are both from Lady Hypotenose’s litter.
That black one, though?
I don’t think I’ve seen it before. Or, maybe it’s the one I saw briefly on the critter cam that one night? It’s impossible to know for sure.
There is a whole lot of mixing and matching going on with these new kittens! It’s really hard to keep track. That’s why I try to take photos as much as possible, but it can be really hard to get a decent shot of them, as they run around and hide so quickly.
With all the moving around of kittens, we still have no idea what the kitten count is this year. Of course, it’s still possible there will be losses, some we will know about, some we won’t. The ones we saw that the moms have moved are the ones the least likely to make it.
I hoped to see Frank while I was checking things out before the storm hit (it has already passed, but we are still under a severe thunderstorm watch), but there was no sign of her. I hope she is somewhere safe and warm with her new babies – and that she’ll find the new cat cave and bring them to the sun room!
Unlikely, but still possible.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 