Thank you to everyone for all the nice words, advice and suggestions, I appreciate it TONS!! Annie and her babies are doing so good. I started giving Annie some kitten food along with her adult food, doc said the kitten food is better for her while she's nursing cause the kittens take just about all she has from her, so, I went out yesterday and got a bunch of kitten food, and of course Annie LOVES it, lol!! I'm so glad Annie I brought Annie in the house when I did, as we woke up to SNOW this morning :-O I couldn't imagine her being outside with her babies on a day like today, they'd be so cold, I don't know if they'd make it or not. I know animals have babies in the wild all the time and make it, I guess I'm just an old softy and worry wart when it comes to the furkids.... Sigh.... I took a few pics of them this morning when I went in to feed Annie, and I held her babies for about a minute a piece. Annie is totally fine with me holding them, and she lets me move them out of the way while she gets all situated back in her bed and then I put them back up to her teets. She pures as if to say thank you Mommy. My hubby went in to check on her and the babies this morning and he told her after her babies were weaned, she'd be going in for surgery and then come back home to heal, and he hoped she didn't mind, but she was going to be an inside cat from now on cause Mommy just loves her to much to put her outside, I'd worry to much about her. She is such a good girl. We have three parcels of property here and our back yard is totally privacy fenced in, I've been thinking about building a big outdoor pen for her and our other cat Justice. I'd like to put plants and different level things and some lil sturdy fake trees and stuff in there for them, and have a top on it as well. This way they could go outside for a few during the day and enjoy some fresh air and be safe, and then I could bring them back in after a bit. Does this sound crazy? Annie was a stray cat, I don't know if she'd be stimulated and completely happy being in doors ALL the time, so I figured if I did this for them, they could enjoy the outdoors for a lil each day on nice days. I don't know what I'd ever do without furbabies in my life, they really bring so much into my heart and life. I already have a big pen built out in our back yard for our 3 turtles, I took a huge dog kennel (the heavy wire kind) and cut it in half, used the excess wire and burried it in the ground so they can't dig out and nothing can dig in and I laid a brick floor over top of it and then built the sides up with wooden planks and then filled it in with clean peat moss I bought from Lowes and then put a heavy wire gate and lock on it, then built a top to it so nothing can get in or out. I plant strawberry and tomato plant in there for them in the summer, they love it!! They have old hollowed out logs, big clay pots, a pound I built for them in there, big huge hosta plants that provide tons of shade, rocks and grassy areas. They really seem to thrive and enjoy it. In the fall when temps dip down below 50 at night, I bring them in and I have a 50 gallon tank I keep them in over the winter. It's like the pen I built them outside, just a lot smaller. I've love to do something like this for Annie and our other cat Justice.
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