My cat is having kittens....updated photos post #150, p. 10

[disneymomofmyca]

I came on here to see if you had pics yet...I am always sad when I find happy threads being flamed...boo hiss to you flamers on this happy kitten thread!...

We live on a large farm too and we need cats/kittens around at all times for help with mice. We love watching kittens playing in the yard They are too funny! Enjoy the new litter!

 

[sbell111]

Come on!!! Give us pics of cute baby kittens!!!

 

[daisyduck123]

Still waiting to see the cutie pies!!
I love kittens!
I have two kitties of my own.

 

[skater]

Having an unspayed, or neutered, cat (especially outdoors) is not being a responsible pet owner.

How is it irresponsible if she is taking care of them?

 

[Mrs. Charming]

Yeah! We want to see kitten pics!

Don't make us turn to cuteoverload or Icanhascheezburger!

 

[skater]

I agree! Sorry OP, but threads like this make me so mad. There is no reason that you should have an unfixed outside cat. I have 4 cats that live at my house thanks to people not fixing their cats. The first 2 I got from a barn that was overrun with kittens and 2 showed up as starving unfixed strays.

I really don't want this many cats, but since the shelters/craigslist/want ads are filled with unwanted cats/kittens what am I going to do with them but keep them! I love my cats, but I wish we only had the original 2.

Why should you be mad if she is taking care of them? Neither you nor anyone else will have to take care of her cats - she already does.

 

[MichelleVW]

Boy....I'm sorry I posted at this point. Didn't know I was going to get lectured by the pet police. First of all, I live on a farm. I have lived on farms all of my life. I have 150 acres of forest in my back yard. We do keep cats....they take care of the mice and the rats. ALL of our animals are fed, they get their shots, they get seen by the farm vet who takes care of our cattle. I don't dump cats on someone else's property. If a kitten is born on my farm, I either find it a home or keep it and take care of it.

And if someone else dumps cats on our farm, we do our best to take care of them too.

Nothing brings me more JOY than seeing kittens playing in my yard. My kids play with our cats and they are all tame.

If you've had a bad experience, I'm really sorry. We are not irresponsible with our animals. They are MY pets, on MY property, cared for by MY family.

Now, I think I'll go check and see how mama kitty is doing and enjoy the beautiful sight of a mama kitty nursing her babies.

Sorry, but you are being irresponsible. There are millions of cats/kittens destroyed every year, why can't you adopt them instead of adding to the overpopulation.

I came on here to see if you had pics yet...I am always sad when I find happy threads being flamed...boo hiss to you flamers on this happy kitten thread!...

We live on a large farm too and we need cats/kittens around at all times for help with mice. We love watching kittens playing in the yard They are too funny! Enjoy the new litter!

Sorry, this is not a happy thread....it makes me extremely sad.

How is it irresponsible if she is taking care of them?

Why should you be mad if she is taking care of them? Neither you nor anyone else will have to take care of her cats - she already does.

Do you have any idea the sheer number of kittens/cats that are destroyed every year because of unfixed cats? I get mad because it's totally irresponsible, that's why.

 

[princessmom29]

Having an unspayed, or neutered, cat (especially outdoors) is not being a responsible pet owner.

Farm culture is completely different from keeping animals in the city.My inlaws also have a population oF cats that roam the farm. It is necessary. My MIL got the first 2 when she saw a rat in the baby's crib. Not a mouse, a big ugly disease carrying feild rat in the house! None of them are spayed and neutered, but the population stays under control because on a farm you also have predators like coyote and bocats. Sorry, but it is a part of life on a farm. They have had cats for 20 plus years, never spayed or nutered any of them, and the population maintains at about 8-10 cats. My BIL is avet and gives them theri shots. They are well fed and any medical problems taken care of. Just like any other animals on the farm including about 500 beef cattle. This is not a city cat we are talking about that will breed out of control and populate a house with hundereds of cats. I cannot believe the nastiness here about this. It really is an natural part of life on a farm.

 

[princessmom29]

Sorry, but you are being irresponsible. There are millions of cats/kittens destroyed every year, why can't you adopt them instead of adding to the overpopulation.



Sorry, this is not a happy thread....it makes me extremely sad.






Do you have any idea the sheer number of kittens/cats that are destroyed every year because of unfixed cats? I get mad because it's totally irresponsible, that's why.

Adopting from a shelter is nto an option for farm cats, unless you were to get them very young. They have to be able to take care of themselves outside to have any chance of making it at all. Taht, and if you are getting cats that come from farm stock you are getting cats that are bred for the life. They come from a line of cats with the traits necessary to survive on a farm. Not so with shelter cats. As I said, it is a totally different culture that you have to be a part of to understand sometimes.

 

[MichelleVW]

Farm culture is completely different from keeping animals in the city.My inlaws also have a population oF cats that roam the farm. It is necessary. My MIL got the first 2 when she saw a rat in the baby's crib. Not a mouse, a big ugly disease carrying feild rat in the house! None of them are spayed and neutered, but the population stays under control because on a farm you also have predators like coyote and bocats. Sorry, but it is a part of life on a farm. They have had cats for 20 plus years, never spayed or nutered any of them, and the population maintains at about 8-10 cats. My BIL is avet and gives them theri shots. They are well fed and any medical problems taken care of. Just like any other animals on the farm including about 500 beef cattle. This is not a city cat we are talking about that will breed out of control and populate a house with hundereds of cats. I cannot believe the nastiness here about this. It really is an natural part of life on a farm.

I know all about barn cats, and I still totally disagree.

 

[MichelleVW]

Adopting from a shelter is nto an option for farm cats, unless you were to get them very young. They have to be able to take care of themselves outside to have any chance of making it at all. Taht, and if you are getting cats that come from farm stock you are getting cats that are bred for the life. They come from a line of cats with the traits necessary to survive on a farm. Not so with shelter cats. As I said, it is a totally different culture that you have to be a part of to understand sometimes.

Honey....I am part of the culture and I totally understand. Plus, it's not hard at all to find barn cats that are "bred for the life" I have two of them snuggled up on my bed right now. They were born in a barn by barn cats and are happy as they can be in my house. I'm sure the other two I found as adults were also "bred for the life" and they too are happy to be fixed and in the house!

 

[tiggger1]

Sorry, but you are being irresponsible. There are millions of cats/kittens destroyed every year, why can't you adopt them instead of adding to the overpopulation.



Sorry, this is not a happy thread....it makes me extremely sad.






Do you have any idea the sheer number of kittens/cats that are destroyed every year because of unfixed cats? I get mad because it's totally irresponsible, that's why.

Not all cats are suited for barn cats. I looked into get a feral cat for a barn cat. 2 of places that I contacted basically had the same rules. pay for the adoption fee, pay to get the spayed/neutered, pay to rent the cage that the cat HAD to stay in for at least 12-16 weeks, plus the cat were not social at all and 1 that I looked at was vicious. Im sorry but I would rather have a friendly stray outdoor cat come live in my barn and have kittens than pay close to $300 for feral that might attack me.


It might be different if the OP didnt have a 150 acre farm. Chances are the cats are no going to wander that far to be anyone elses problem. If she is going to take care of them, I dont see why anyone else has a problem

 

[princessmom29]

Honey....I am part of the culture and I totally understand. Plus, it's not hard at all to find barn cats that are "bred for the life" I have two of them snuggled up on my bed right now. They were born in a barn by barn cats and are happy as they can be in my house. I'm sure the other two I found as adults were also "bred for the life" and they too are happy to be fixed and in the house!

If they were true barn cats they would have no interest in snuggling up in the bed with you. I am not talking about house cats that play at being mousers.

 

[MichelleVW]

If they were true barn cats they would have no interest in snuggling up in the bed with you. I am not talking about house cats that play at being mousers.

Well, they were born in the barn to barn cats that lived in barns forever hunting mice so not sure how they can't be true barn cats I got them at 6 weeks old to put in my barn, but they were too tiny so we kept them inside, and inside is where they grew up and are happy. One of them would love to go outside and kill things, but I love him too much to allow him out with the coyotes that tend to hang out in my back yard.

I'm done with arguing because there is no way you are going to convince me that having countless unfixed animals outside is a responsible thing to do, because it is not.

To the OP, congrats on your kittens, I LOVE kittens but I still wish you would get the mom fixed.

 

[princessmom29]

Well, they were born in the barn to barn cats that lived in barns forever hunting mice so not sure how they can't be true barn cats I got them at 6 weeks old to put in my barn, but they were too tiny so we kept them inside, and inside is where they grew up and are happy. One of them would love to go outside and kill things, but I love him too much to allow him out with the coyotes that tend to hang out in my back yard.

I'm done with arguing because there is no way you are going to convince me that having countless unfixed animals outside is a responsible thing to do, because it is not.

To the OP, congrats on your kittens, I LOVE kittens but I still wish you would get the mom fixed.

for us, the point of having outdoor barn cats is for them to kill things, like mice. The whole idea is to keep the rats away form the barn and house. Indoor cats never go out and outdoor cats only come in if they are ill. You cannot "fall in love" with them any more than you can the cattle that will be slaughtered for beef becuase some of them will be coyote causalties. What you have are house cats that you let out into the barn on occasion. Raising them in the house made them that way. They are now pets and not farm animals. Why is having unfixed cats that breed to support the farm any different than having unfixed cattle that breed to support the farm??

 

[jrmasm]

for us, the point of having outdoor barn cats is for them to kill things, like mice. The whole idea is to keep the rats away form the barn and house. Indoor cats never go out and outdoor cats only come in if they are ill. You cannot "fall in love" with them any more than you can the cattle that will be slaughtered for beef becuase some of them will be coyote causalties. What you have are house cats that you let out into the barn on occasion. Raising them in the house made them that way. They are now pets and not farm animals. Why is having unfixed cats that breed to support the farm any different than having unfixed cattle that breed to support the farm??

Damn. I was trying to stay out of this...


Growing up, I spent all my free time at a local barn. When spring rolled around, the kittens were born usually around 20 or so each year. By the time summer came, there might be one still alive. They were killed in the road, stepped on by horses, killed by other animals. It was just so sad. And there is another like discovering a pancaked kitten in a stall.

Get the cat fixed. And her babies when they're old enough.

 

[MIGrandma]

Boy....I'm sorry I posted at this point. Didn't know I was going to get lectured by the pet police. First of all, I live on a farm. I have lived on farms all of my life. I have 150 acres of forest in my back yard. We do keep cats....they take care of the mice and the rats. ALL of our animals are fed, they get their shots, they get seen by the farm vet who takes care of our cattle. I don't dump cats on someone else's property. If a kitten is born on my farm, I either find it a home or keep it and take care of it.

And if someone else dumps cats on our farm, we do our best to take care of them too.

Nothing brings me more JOY than seeing kittens playing in my yard. My kids play with our cats and they are all tame.

If you've had a bad experience, I'm really sorry. We are not irresponsible with our animals. They are MY pets, on MY property, cared for by MY family.

Now, I think I'll go check and see how mama kitty is doing and enjoy the beautiful sight of a mama kitty nursing her babies.

Not all of us are flaming you. And the people who are probably don't live on a farm, and probably have never set foot on a farm to know what it's like.

And to the flamers, if she is taking care of all of her cats and not dumping them in shelters then how is it hurting YOU?

We used to have several outdoor barn cats, and in the spring we'd have a couple litters of kittens and I put a sign out by the road "free kittens" and we always managed to find every single kitten a new home.

Just because people don't have their barn cats fixed does not make them irresponsible pet owners.

 

[wvjules]

for us, the point of having outdoor barn cats is for them to kill things, like mice. The whole idea is to keep the rats away form the barn and house. Indoor cats never go out and outdoor cats only come in if they are ill. You cannot "fall in love" with them any more than you can the cattle that will be slaughtered for beef becuase some of them will be coyote causalties. What you have are house cats that you let out into the barn on occasion. Raising them in the house made them that way. They are now pets and not farm animals. Why is having unfixed cats that breed to support the farm any different than having unfixed cattle that breed to support the farm??

Wow! I have no words.....

 

[princessmom29]

Damn. I was trying to stay out of this...


Growing up, I spent all my free time at a local barn. When spring rolled around, the kittens were born usually around 20 or so each year. By the time summer came, there might be one still alive. They were killed in the road, stepped on by horses, killed by other animals. It was just so sad. And there is another like discovering a pancaked kitten in a stall.

Get the cat fixed. And her babies when they're old enough.

sounds like someone was not taking porper care of where the cats were and were not allwoed to be. They were likely being fed too close to the road(ie at the house just off the highway) and should never have been in a horse barn in the first place. This is not what it is like on every farm. We have only lost mabye one cat to the road in the 10 years I have been around, and never had one killed in the barn.

 

[MIGrandma]

If they were true barn cats they would have no interest in snuggling up in the bed with you. I am not talking about house cats that play at being mousers.

for us, the point of having outdoor barn cats is for them to kill things, like mice. The whole idea is to keep the rats away form the barn and house. Indoor cats never go out and outdoor cats only come in if they are ill. You cannot "fall in love" with them any more than you can the cattle that will be slaughtered for beef becuase some of them will be coyote causalties. What you have are house cats that you let out into the barn on occasion. Raising them in the house made them that way. They are now pets and not farm animals. Why is having unfixed cats that breed to support the farm any different than having unfixed cattle that breed to support the farm??

Um, excuse me but I have lived on a working farm (1500 acres) for 34 years. I have had many farm animal pets. Just because they are farm animals does not mean they can't be pets as well. When we raised pigs I made a pet of one that I saved when she was being born. We kept her for breeding rather than selling her for slaughter. We raised sheep, they were ALL pets, none of them went to slaughter. I had several barn cats that occasionally came into the house. Just because they were barn cats didn't mean I could never let them inside. Maybe on YOUR farm you didn't make pets of farm animals, but on OUR farm we have. Not every farm runs the same.