Snowie

I don't have photos of Snowie on my computer.

I have some on my phone.

But after several weeks I need to share what 

has happened.

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I know some time I ago I mentioned that a white

cat arrived, unannounced, more likely

abandoned and she smelled the scents of cats

here and well she stayed.

I said I couldn't tell if she was a  boy or girl.

Well, she's a GIRL that is for sure.

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My girl got pregnant.

Yep she became one of the groups of

stragglers. She is very food oriented, and

fluffy. Very fluffy. That is why until she was

about to give birth and I saw how she

was full of milk I didn't know that she

was having kittens.

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June 17th she had 4.

The Daddy is the same as the Daddy to 

Millie & Maize.

It's a long story about where she wanted

to keep them and where I tried to move them

and she was determined to keep them

in an unsafe place.

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I was doing my best to try and help.

But on the morning of June 24 she was

waiting for me and she hadn't left

her kittens before, so I went to see how

they were doing, and I found the area in

disarray. No kittens.

I looked at Snowie and she had wounds.

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Sometime during the night of the 23rd,

her kittens were taken.

I can't tell you  how devastated that made

me feel. It made me feel awful for her,

she was looking for them.

But they were long long gone.

I don't know for sure what animal attacked

her and took them. But,

I was determined to not let that happen again.

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I got an appointment to have her spayed on July 8th.

She has done great and she's all healed up

from both the attack and the surgery.

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I know we all have hard things in our lives.

We just have to buckle up and deal with them.

But some are harder than others.

I didn't know how I was going to deal

with having 4 more mouths to feed

but I was determined to try and find  homes

for those kittens.

It was such a gut punch to lose them.

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Cats do grieve, even shortly.

She knew she lost her babies.

But I was determined not to let that happen again.