My family needs to do something soon, or some people need to be kind souls and adopt a kitten. Somehow Sakura, the mother of the first batch of kittens we found outside got pregnant (read my parents let her out a couple times because she wanted to despite me telling them otherwise and she got knocked up) and she just had her kittens yesterday. She had five. It didn’t look like she was big enough for five kittens, but there are five healthy little kittens. One of them is even a tortoiseshell, like Tortellini. It’s weird, for the longest time I never saw a tortoiseshell around the house, and now two kittens appear. These five kittens bring the count of cats in the house to fifteen, and we’re trying to get rid of ten of them. Right now they are under the bed. She had them under te bed, but we moved them into the large kennel we borrowed from my aunt and kept them there for the night. But when my parents opened the kennel this morning she slowly began to take the kittens back under the bed. So for now they’re staying there, but when they start to move around we’re going to have to move them elsewhere, because my dad will probably step on one when he gets up in the morning. My parents can’t care for seventeen cats, especially the kittens, and especially way my dad is. We have our grown cats that we have to buy the good food for, since they are ours and deserve good stuff. Then there’s the kittens. It wouldn’t be that bad except my father insists that we feed them wet food, when they don’t need it. It’s cheap stuff, but it gets pricey. He’s stupid and feeds them like six cans a day, when they don’t need it. All the kittens eat dry food, which is much cheaper and they eat throughout the day either way. Plus with the wet food the poo smells horrible and is diarrhea like, I don’t actually think they’ve ever had normal poo. They can’t afford to keep all of them, but we can’t take them to the Human Society because they have so many cats there that any that are taken in right now are automatically euthanized.
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