Baby Kitties

Our cat had kittens Saturday afternoon (in the middle of Zachary's bed!) and Abbigail is thrilled. She loves the kittens and wants to look at them all day long. It's been difficult to keep her away from them. The mama cat has moved them several times, but Abbigail always ends up finding them. Currently they are in the closet in our bedroom, but this morning when we had woke up she had moved them to the boys room instead.

Abbigail jumped out of bed this morning and went straight to the closet to see the "tiny babies" and they weren't there. This made her very sad. I took her in the boys' room and showed her where the Mama kitty had moved them to. She was thrilled, but them didn't want to leave them alone. I finally had to move them back to our closet so I could shut the door and keep them safe from Abbigail's loving hands. When I went to move the kittens, I could only reach 4 out of the 5 since the one was eating it's breakfast. I put the 4 in the closet and came back to find the last kitten (little blackie) sitting on the boys' floor with the Mama next to it meowing. It turns out that Abbigail was trying to be helpful and picked up the kitten (or strangled it according to the boys).

The kitties are now safe and sound in my bedroom closet with the door closed. Abbigail begs me to go in and see them (and we already have numerous times today). I told her that she needs to wait until they are bigger, and then she can play with them just like Grandma's kitties!