- a note I left for my neighbor who doesn’t appear to be at home

Poor black cat is too young to be a mother, and it looks like she’s decided to nest in my house (I tried to ignore her but she actually managed to knock over a chair and bash on my door so I finally caved). She hid twice in really inconvenient spots (under a pile of unsorted recycling and wedged between desk and suitcase respectively) before I finally coaxed her into a box.

Moral of the story: never ever ever make friends with an un-spayed female cat (I really thought she was a dude).

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UPDATE: What a trooper… she birthed 5 kittens within about 2 hours, all kicking and squirming. She also ate up all the muck. Nature is both beautiful and disgusting.

Here’s a video of them being cute and helpless: watch

And here’s one of the second kitten stirring just a few seconds after emerging (not particularly gross): watch

And a final one, kitten pile at one day old: watch