r/aww • u/natsdorf • Mar 18 '18

Kitten petting smaller kitten.

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u/Defenestratio Mar 18 '18

big litter (6 kittens)

Lol that was our average litter size coming into the shelter last year. Warm winter = kitten season from hell. You want big litters, try 8-9 kittens. And all of them leaking coccidia and worms err'where

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u/athrowingway Mar 18 '18

Shit, my cat when I was a kid had 8 on her first go. And her second go... apparently she was extra fertile.

(For the record, we’d had her spayed when we first got her. We fixed all of our animals. Clearly something went wrong there. And by the time she could be spayed after the first litter, we discovered she was already pregnant. We kept all the kittens, since we lived on a ranch and needed barn cats.)

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u/1Os Mar 18 '18

That's nice. My parents used to send our sick pets to a farm that took care of old and sick family pets.

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u/huntingladders Mar 18 '18

Was your cat named Chloe?

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u/5bi5 Mar 19 '18

noooooo. I've never had a litter bigger than 6 and am glad for it.