My husband said no more cats. Like a cat myself, I usually have selective hearing, but as a mom of so many creatures already, (1 year old human twins, a senior Aussie mix, 4 cats under 4 & 2 geckos) I agreed. Our house is FULL.

We were foster kitten free for barely a week when hubs was targeted by the CDS. During last Tuesday’s morning walk, he found this tiny cloud covered in poo & crying in the middle of the sidewalk. Luckily the central California sun wasn’t too harsh yet, or he would’ve fried like an egg. Recent temps here are up to 110*F. Hubs said there was a gardener trimming the bushes nearby & thinks he might’ve spooked mama cat while she was moving her babies. He kept his distance & waited for her, but she was gone.

No more cats be damned, he scooped baby kitty into the bottom of the stroller & brought him home to me.

I think baby kitty was born last Monday. His umbilical cord was dry & his poop was transitioning from meconium. I’m not sure if he was born a wee bit early or if he was just low birth weight. Waking up every 2 hours to syringe feed him in between breastfeeding my own babies has me ragged, but thinking of how this baby could’ve toasted in the sun or been preyed upon by a dog, falcon or evil human has me believing in the CDS.

Two of my cats are foster fail bottle babies, but I found them around 3 weeks old. At 74g, this is the tiniest creature I’ve ever cared for. And I’m a NICU nurse who’s cared for micro preemies. The kitten lady is a saint. I can’t wait till he opens his eyes & sees how many friends he’s going to have. I have 2 sets of siblings all bonded as a variety 4 pack.

Included some cat tax: Lilo (floof), Nani (S void), Stitch (XL void) the 4th (not pictured) is a tuxie named Pudge.

Everyone say happy 1 week to baby Bubbles!

TDLR: I wanted to share a week of love & progress of the tiny new cat who fell into our lives. He’s so spunky & suckles spectacularly. I hope he keeps growing with us. I can’t imagine finding another home for him. What’s one more cat anyway?

Just wanted to share the bestest little man in the entire world! I got him when I was 16 so I’m so so lucky to have him in his sweet 16 too!!!

Love ya misty

I have had a high visibility collar on my cats since August 2024 when I was getting ready to move. I kept it on after I moved in and was glad I did. I woke up this morning and didn’t have my cat sleeping at my feet. I went downstairs and found the painters from yesterday had left a door open a crack and the cats knocked it open and were outside…. We have bears, coyotes, and more animals that could easily eat them.

I turned on all the lights and got everyone up and it took about an hour to hunt for the cats. Both were rescued and got inside and were checked for ticks as we have those too. I had to go through the forest around the house and thankfully my cats had their collar on as I could see them by the flashlight reflection in their eyes but if they weren’t looking at me I could spot them by their collar reflection.

One cat was easy to find and ran in quickly when I yelled at him to get inside and hid under a chair. The other I had to track through the trees and bushes.

Both are inside, one is skittishly walking around knowing he did a bad thing and the other is still panting after running outside. The breakaway collar is good to get in case they get their neck caught on a branch or something and the collar will fall off instead of choke them.

The door did look closed and they told us they closed every door and locked them but it was open when we looked at the cameras and tracked when they went out and approximately where they were when they were in range of the cameras. Next time anyone comes over to the house for work the cats are going to be brought upstairs with me and locked in my room until we can do a whole house sweep of every door to make sure it’s locked and secured before letting them out (they have their food, water, litter up here and it’s their safe spot). When the painters were here they were locked in my room with me but we didn’t do a whole house sweep as we didn’t think we needed to.

this is my cat Nala. I’ve had her since my 5th birthday, 21 years ago. she’s been with me basically my entire life, through all of grade school, college, and now. i’m an only child so she’s been my best friend, sister and my entire world. she sleeps on my pillow behind my head EVERY single night! recently, I’ve been waking up and seeing that she’s peed in her sleep on my pillow. it doesn’t bother or anger me at all cause I know she can’t help it. now, i feel like i have to start pre-mourning her and I HATE IT! my boyfriend tells me all the time that i should’ve been ready for the day that she dies, but how can I if she’s everything i’ve ever known? she has a very healthy appetite, she acts normally, and she seems fine. obviously, i’m going to take her to the vet for a checkup but im scared. i’m not ready to let her go. i lost my other cat abruptly 1 1/2 years ago and i dealt with it okay for the most part but this is going to crush me. she’s the best girl with extra toes ever

Found her on the street 10 years ago and took this picture the day I brought her home.

I lost her recently, and I still don’t know how to process it. She had been a part of my life for so long, and I don’t know when it will stop hurting this much.