KITTUNZ!
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Date: 06 March 2007 18:30:19
So yesterday I went round to see Lucy and Dani. We watched a film, at Chinese, giggled at their astonishingly pregnant waddling cat-all was good. Dani knew that the cafe she worked in would be dead for her whole shift this morning, so I stayed over last night and went with her to keep her company. Not long after we arrive at 8AM, the phone rings and it's Luce, telling us that Treacle's just gone in to labour.
The first kitten was born at nine, the second at ten and the third at eleven. We got back shortly after that and proceeded to SQUEE madly (though quietly and soothingly!) with another friend of ours who'd popped round. Treacle then proceeded to have contractions on and off for hours, and there was clearly a fourth on the way. Lucy and Dani managed to fall asleep while waiting, and I curled up with a book.
Glancing up after a while, I realised that the fourth kitten was just being born and it wasn't looking too healthy. It twitched a little while I woke the girls up, but despite our best efforts he didn't make it and we finally admitted that he was definitely gone after about fifteen minutes.
We all cried a bit and it was very sad, but after burying him we came back in to three very healthy kittens and one extremely proud mum! The third kitten isn't quite visible in this shot, as he's buried underneath his sister and his brother. [grin] Mum is pleased but exhausted. There will be more and better photos when I go back to visit with my own camera tomorrow.
