This is Rosie and her 6 babies. I thought Rosie was my next door neighbors cat for months because she waited on his porch (she even slept in the bushes outside his door) Well… on Valentine’s Day I walked past expecting to see Rosie but instead, see the first photo. I immediately knocked on the door and told my neighbor I’ll take them all. He helped me put her and her 6 (thankfully healthy🙏🏼) babies in a laundry basket and bring them up to my screened in porch. They were in my apartment in minutes and they’ve been with me ever since. 💕 I watched Rosie go from sleeping with one eye open to literally being my soul cat and I don’t know where I’d be without her now. Watching her raise her babies and being there for her is the most special experience I have ever been a part of in my entire life. This is the biggest blessing I ever received from the universe and I will cherish this precious family forever 🙏🏼🙏🏼 P.S. I got mama and all the babies fixed when they were 13 weeks old

I was out for a walk when I saw some cats. I called out to them and a beautiful and VERY pregnant dilute calico ran up to me. I pet her, but then she wouldn’t stop following me and ended up giving birth to a kitten on the sidewalk. I took her home to foster her and her babies. She had five more in my house! There are three boys and three girls. None of the kittens are the same color, but one matches mom. They’re all perfect and adorable. They were born on August 1st and just turned two months old!

The triplets had the best time at the vet making friends, eating churu, getting cuddles, and almost didn't even notice their yearly jabs.The trio got a five star review from the vet, she said they are the best socialized and well-adjusted cats she's ever seen. Completely unbothered by the entire vet experience until a labrador started yodeling in the lobby, then they were annoyed but went right back to fighting for the vet's attention because how dare only one of them gets love???? (Thats not lovin' babes, it's a medical examination but ok.)

History on the bebes: they are the same litter, 22 months old, same feral mom and dad (no other males around she could have added to the gene pool). Indoor only, they dont need to play outside they have plenty of space and stuff to do in the house. We are installing a catio this summer where they can be "outside". They regularly trade me a mouse or big dead bug for a churu. Once they brought me a VOLE?! I assume they found that in the dirt floor well room of our 1800s house. Mama is a normal calico, daddy was a silvery bobtail (healthy bobtail, not medical-issue inbreeding lack of tail.) They each have different tail lengths. The boy has a 3 inch nub, the brown tabby has a half tail, and the calico has the extra length the other two didnt use. I spend half my time with that long tail wrapped around my ankle like a little monkey.

I found them at 2 weeks old deathly ill with FHV, URIs, and severely dehydrated. I used to be a vet tech but never owned cats so I was prepared to keep them, but had to learn how to own kitties. Mama was nowhere to be found at the time and we haven't been able to catch her but I had to take the babies for emergency care or they wouldn't have survived and she would have moved them then we never would have found them again. That would have been devastating.

The ferals are well cared for as a colony by my dad (people love dumping animals out in his area 😒) he is retired and just hangs out with his feral cats smoking wheed and vibing in the woods. Working to TNR them, but they are VERY feral and slippery little backwoods buggers. Not at all the same as the ferals and indoor/outdoors I met when I lived in the city.

kittens + mama i rescued. she split into her primary colors! last image is from the day we got them, kittens were still mewborns

It took about a week to discourage the rescued kittens from trying to nurse on Gregory.

From top to bottom and left to right: Flor, Yang, Pantera, Yin and Tigre

We call her Cleo and she is just a baby herself. We have been trying to get her fixed, but about a month ago she had another litter that she has not brought to me like she did these little fuzz nuggets. When one would get caught in the trap, she would sit next to the trap until I went and got it and then she would bring the group back out. It was like she knew I would be able to take care of them, and one by one over the course of a weekend we got them all and they have been re-homed to friends and family. I keep asking her to bring me her new babies, but she is holding off still, probably because when she is nursing I give her double dinner lol.

Our variety pack loves to sit at the back glass door and watch the squirrels eat the bird seed.

I found Kiki in 2020 and decided I wanted to foster her until I could figure out what to do with her. Took her to the vet to check for a microchip and the vet says “no microchip, but she is pregnant.” I went from having no pets to having 5 cats in the span of 1 month.

We found homes for 3 of the kittens and we decided to keep Kiki and one of her kittens (the black one, we named him Pepino). We got Kiki and Pepino spayed and neutered right away, and now they live happily together with my parents.

I'd like to start with 'please spay and neuter your cats!' There's a dark tabby, pale tabby, tortie/tabby (torbie), a void and a tuxedo.

Hecate (black), Fig (grey), and Odo (white)

This is only 6 of 8, but the other 2 are more skittish especially about eating. Even this is rare, with Simmy (the mostly white calico) usually waiting until everyone else is gone to eat!

Left to right, it's Duncan, Frax, Krobus, Emcee, Simmy, and Fizz. (Skippy and Friday/Kitten are unpictured).

Feeders are surepet microchip feeders, frames are repurposed plastic cube storage shelves.