Grumpy was being nice one day when he asked our neighbor if she had any cats for the barn. We were having serious problems with mice entering the house and running around taking our food and leaving their debris behind.
The neighbors are quite a nice couple with several children who are always willing to help when we need them, so she sent us 4 small cats for us to feed and take care of our mice problem.
The first day, one was sitting on the tire of my car, and as I pulled out, we had a terrible accident. That left us three cats to care for.
I took photos, made nice with them, fed them, cleaned out a space in the garage and was happy when I noticed our mice population had decreased.
Not long after, one of the cats, now old enough to breed, regaled us with three precious little ones. I was fine with it. Unfortunately, one of the babies had a problem with a back leg and was unable to climb, so I made a special place for it to eat without being disturbed by the other cats or the dogs.
After a while, our daughter brought the three-legged cat into her home and left us with two other small cats. We lost one somewhere and the other one is still around here.
A couple of months later, the other female brought into the world 5 little ones, and not too long after, her sister found a place to deliver 6 more. The third cat found it necessary to flee to the neighbors as her sisters didn’t want her around, so she brought 2 new babies to our daughter’s house where they now live.
Now, I’m in trouble.
Since there were too many cats in the garage, I made a place in the barn to house all the babies, their mothers and any other stray animal. But both the mothers decided the garage was better and it was home and brought every one of their babies back to the garage in a remarkable time. I couldn’t turn my back for any length of time, when I discovered all the babies were back!
As I sit doing some sewing, I can see the kitties at the back door just giving me the evil eye and especially one who we named “whiner”, just sitting by the door waiting for food. No matter how often I feed this cat, it’s always whining for more. It is very vocal and loud, and it’s the only one from a litter, who knows where he came from, as it’s different from all the others.
If anybody needs a cat, please let me know, I have several I would like to donate to a worthy cause.