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.