About two months ago, a yellow bobtailed tomcat showed up in our barn. We knew what was coming and actually were glad of it, since a tragic set of circumstances this summer depleted our cat population significantly…We knew we’d be needing some more mousers! Well, it very quickly became apparent that both Grey Cat and Yellow Cat (I didn’t name them. Brad did) were expecting.

Friday morning, we found Grey Cat in the barn cuddled up with a little squirming pile of three kittens, a dark yellow one, a cream colored one, and a bright white one. Boy, she was proud of her little family! And there was Yellow Cat, her maternal hormones just raging, trying to mother Grey Cat’s kittens. We finally resorted to locking her up in the tack room Friday evening, and Saturday morning she was mothering a single tiny little yellow kitten. We left her locked up all day yesterday, and I finally let her out last night. Grey Cat heard Yellow Cat’s kitten crying, since Yellow Cat was a little incompetent, and darted into the tack room and stole him, squirreling him away to her nest of kittens. Yellow Cat was unphased and sauntered over to join the group cuddle.

Well, this morning there was one extra kitten, another little yellow male, and the two cats happily sharing mother duties.

What a funny little family.