Neglected cats

Some of you I sure remember the Border Collie pup I tried to help well that wasn't the only animal my neighbors had. They also had a kitten. I saw her around from time to time and I knew they wouldn't spay her and even saw her with a tom cat. But what could I do but sit back and wait.
Sure enough things got worse. The gal ended up finding another guy and left the house and the cat. The guy stayed but I pretty sure he never even fed the poor cat. Well she had her kittens and from talking to other neighbors I knew she was scrounging around for food. This last week I finally saw her and she was so tiny and skinny, her coat is dull and she has lots of dandruff. While I wanted to take her then and rescue her I had to think of the kittens too, I had no Idea how old they were or even if they were still alive. I had been told through the neighborhood grape vine the the guy had at one point tossed them over the fence to some boys who lived there and told them to "take care of them". Anyway I started feeding her to encourage her to keep coming back. And tonight a little while after I had fed her my daughter came in the house caring a kitten and told me there were two more. DH and I immediately went out and got them, Mama showed up too. So the whole family is in my house. I had already talked to DH about making sure Mama was taken care of; so now the plan is to keep the family for a week or two, The kittens are not quite old enough to leave Mama yet and they need some socializing; they are pretty shy. Then we will find Mama and two of the kittens a home. One has already found his forever home

Mama or Leila as my Kids have named her. I have been trying to figure out her age. What ever the youngest age is for a cat to have her first season + gestation + 5 weeks? Its been a while since I had a young female cat.


Just to show you how skinny she is


The kids have named the kittens too. The gray tabby is Rocky, the calico is Cookie and the seal point? is Jedi. Jedi is the one we are going to keep.