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Easter Kittens In My Flower Bed!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 34262" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>It's quite possible that both cats are mothering them. And as you discovered, you can move them with varying success. Sometimes you just have to be persistent. husband's childhood cat would refuse to use the special pen they had set up for the kittens and they watched her move them, worried she would snap their necks when she jumped with them (she was never light on her feet - a big, fluffy Persian).</p><p></p><p>I had a feral cat that I adopted when I was a uni student. She had her litter of kittens under my bed, but I was able to move them into a nearby window seat with no trouble. I just kept the lid up on the window seat all the time, so mother cat could get in and out but the babies couldn't.</p><p></p><p>We used to breed corgis when I was a kid. The people next door were even more keen breeders. One of ours had pups at about the same time that one of theirs had a caesarean delivery. Our female was 'borrowed', with her pups, to help nurse for the female who still had stitches and couldn't feed her own pups. Ours would let the other mother in with the pups too, but any other canine was kept away by our dog because she was so protective. She seemed to know that the other mother had a right to her babies and both dogs ended up looking after both litters with no squabbles between them. At weaning time we had no difficulty separating them.</p><p></p><p>Some animals can be more generous than you think.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 34262, member: 1991"] It's quite possible that both cats are mothering them. And as you discovered, you can move them with varying success. Sometimes you just have to be persistent. husband's childhood cat would refuse to use the special pen they had set up for the kittens and they watched her move them, worried she would snap their necks when she jumped with them (she was never light on her feet - a big, fluffy Persian). I had a feral cat that I adopted when I was a uni student. She had her litter of kittens under my bed, but I was able to move them into a nearby window seat with no trouble. I just kept the lid up on the window seat all the time, so mother cat could get in and out but the babies couldn't. We used to breed corgis when I was a kid. The people next door were even more keen breeders. One of ours had pups at about the same time that one of theirs had a caesarean delivery. Our female was 'borrowed', with her pups, to help nurse for the female who still had stitches and couldn't feed her own pups. Ours would let the other mother in with the pups too, but any other canine was kept away by our dog because she was so protective. She seemed to know that the other mother had a right to her babies and both dogs ended up looking after both litters with no squabbles between them. At weaning time we had no difficulty separating them. Some animals can be more generous than you think. Marg [/QUOTE]
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