Coco had her babies today, and as always, mewmie takes the mommy cats in to her day hunting place (the V.E.T.) during their last week of pregnancy, so she can keep a close eye on them.
Usually what happens is the momcats wait until about midnight to go into labor and keep mewmie up all night! But not this time.
Coco only had about 15 minutes of visible labor befor the first kitten arrived at 12:35pm, then the next one arrived at 12:50, #3 at 1:00, #4 at 1:05 and then Coco rested a bit and had the last one at 1:25pm.
Some of the staff at work had not seen kittens birthed before and they all congratulated Coco on her wonderful mothering skills and our mewmie on her wonderful midwifery skills.
Right now, mewmie thinks they are all boys…and 3 people were hoping for a girl. But just wait til they open their eyes and mew at you…who wouldn’t fall for that??
There are 2 red tabbies, 1 black, 1 brown tabby and white, and 1 black and white and mewmie hasn’t weighed them yet (she forgot to take her gram scale to work and her scale is even more accurate than the one at the V.E.T.’s) but they are all nursing and active and that makes her very, very happy!
congratulations, coco!
Dear Teri and Coco
Great job! Congrats! They look great. Boys are wonderful too!
best wishes
Gayle, George and Bette Blu