barra de la leche de gato

 My title translates to cat milk bar.  This is Patch with her litter of four having a yummy meal.  A solid black, a red and white, with bookends of almost-twin calicoes.  This litter was born around the beginning of April of this year.  (The photo was taken through a window.)

 The three kittens in the photo above belong to Stumpy who looks like the one on the left.  Stumpy is so named because she was born with about one quarter of a normal tail.  This is the litter that shares a mother and a nanny, Cali-Red, who lost her litter so she decided to help Stumpy out, both with feeding and caring.  They were also born the beginning of April of this year. (The photo was taken through a screen.)

And this?  This is my munchkin named Punkin'.  He is the only one of our four cats that I did not name.  Otherwise he'd be sporting a different name altogether.  (Judging from this picture, it looks like my camera lens could use a cleaning.)

The above two litters are the only kittens that stay by the house.  Slash gave birth to two kittens less than a month ago.  She had them in the greenhouse where they stayed for a few days before she decided to move them.  Mother cats are forever moving their litters.  When it rains heavily, she brings them to the greenhouse; otherwise they are kept out of sight where it is cool on these very hot days we are currently having.

Nine kittens and counting...