Well my mom informed me her one cat, handie-cat, had her first litter of kittens 2 weeks ago. Now there's a story behind how this cat got her name. (Handie is the one laying on top of the grey cat, her sister princess, the one sitting up is their brother Hoss)
A year ago one of my mom's cat had a litter of 3 kittens, 2 black and one grey. Now one of the black kittens was just a devil. She would claw you, scratch you and bite you if you breathed the wrong way and she had earned the name hell-cat. Now she was just 3 or 4 weeks old when she was like this so it was just a kitten thing.
Well she was a tad too adventitious and tried to climb up a a heavy chunk of wood leaning up on the wall and in turn caused it to fall over and it landed on her head. My mom had found her in a puddle of blood after hearing the crash. Things didn't look good for her. My mom kept an eye on her and the next day noticed her left eye had clouded up and she had blood and snot coming out of her nose, couldn't walk straight and couldn't nurse like the other kittens since she was having issues with her mouth and tongue, like she was using her tongue backwards. (this is handie 2 weeks after the accident. she was telling me she was hungry)
Well fast forward a year, unless you knew her story you'd never know she had this accident unless you saw her left eye in the right light and noticed her mouth is always open a bit. She can't eat hard foods since we think her jaw was broke or her skull grew wrong after the accident. And when she tries to clean herself she ends up looking like she fell into the toilet. I'm glad my mom didn't take her to get put down and nursed her back to health.
(Now my mom was waiting to get the kittens into the vet to get fixed when handie got pregnant. Once she's done nursing she's going to be fixed so please don't comment about adding more pets into the world. They are well loved and well taken care of and her other cats are all fixed now also)
(above are the new babies 2 white, one black, one grey; coco, to the left is stealing my crochet tshirt rug and will not look at me for a picture)
Well the night she started to have her kitten my mom was there to help since handie can't chew or lick right. Well to my mom's surprise, coco (handie's mom) was right there with her and after each kitten was born, chewed the cord and cleaned them up for handie.
Handie tried to clean them up but with her bad eye and her mouth not working great would end up missing. Its just so touching that coco was there to help her.
I wish more people would take pointers from animals.
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