Those kittens and their hijinx, am I right? _____________________
(We are located in Huntsville, Alabama)
Adult tortie Margeaux came to us on May 28, 2019 from a rural high-kill shelter. We were told that she and her three kittens (Siamese mix kittens Jacques and Esmee, and brown tabby Amelie) were taken in from a hoarder, and Margeaux was stressed from being at the shelter and not dealing well. As it turned out, she was stressed because those three kittens were NOT hers, she wasn't producing milk, and the kittens were skin and bones. Two weeks later, we brought home brown tabby girl Katriane – who WAS producing milk – and her three kittens (Siamese mix kitten Antoine (he's the lightest of the three Siamese mix kittens) and gray tabbies Madeline and Francois. They joined Margeaux, and the litters blended well. Katriane will let any of the kittens nurse from her, and she and Margeaux get along well. They all have French names because I joked that Margeaux was “like the French au pair who eats all your potato chips and ignores the kids.” (IT IS A JOKE, POSSIBLY A BAD ONE, AND NOT INTENDED TO OFFEND HARD-WORKING AU PAIRS, FRENCH OR OTHERWISE.) We call the blended litter Les Chatons (French for “the kittens”.)
We realized a few weeks ago that Margeaux was pregnant, and in the early hours of July 10th, she birthed 6 wiggly, healthy tabbies (4 brown, 2 gray).
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