We have 6 new additions. I had befriended a little kitty earlier this year. She had a lame front paw so I fed her and gave her a place to sleep. Then I saw that she was probably pregnant, but she was so tiny, I figured that she would either have one or two kittens or lose them altogether as is common for new feline mothers.
She had five.
She had them under a neighbor’s shed and then she brought them to our garden. One disappeared and ended up back at the shed. So after a couple of weeks, everyone is now caught, inside the house and being tamed. The vet said the momma cat was only around a year old and she’s only a little over 6 pounds (about 3 kilos). So we are getting her spayed because if she is such a good momma at this age, we’ll be up to our hips in kittens.
Momma cat is Hera. The white and stripes (females I think) are Athena and Harley (Harlequin due to her face that you can’t see here), the three stripey/spotty boys are Apollo, Jason ( ala the Argonauts, for being quite the explorer) and Leo. She’s in the midst of weaning them but they are about as big as her.
Club Schadenfreude 
Gorgeous!
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Congratulations on acquiring your very own Dark Legion of cats!
Astreja K., recovering Crazy Cat Lady
P.S. Don’t. Name. The. Kittens! We did, and that was it — they had tenure, and we weren’t allowed to put them up for adoption. 😉
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Hi Astreja! Alas, I have already broken your rule. So, now we have eight cats. 🙂 And many mostly destroyed plants.
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