A Sweet Gift

One of my favorite Library Patrons gave me this adorable little notebook! 

I will be writing Kitten City Tails in it. 

Meow!

The Origins of Kitten City

Misty - hanging out in the sink while pregnant

It began as a necessity. 

Previously, when we had foster kittens, we had an extra room. But then we gained additional housemates and lost the spare room. So bathroom, right? After all, kittens on tile make things so much easier to clean.

Misty and her six babies

Tempest scaling the wall

We have a smaller bathroom upstairs and we've had kittens in that bathroom before. It can be a bit crazy when you wake up in the middle of the night needing to pee and you have to contend with tiny fur balls climbing you or trying to dash out the door, but it's doable. Doable until Misty Mama gives birth to 6 kittens. It still worked when they were teeny tiny. But right after they turned 1 month old, 4 foundlings who need a mama cat's TLC join them. 

Nimbus escaping under the wall!

With 10 kittens at a month old and a mom, there wasn't enough room in our tiny bathroom.
So, they were moved to my bedroom where I constructed the walls of Kitten City from cardboard. Misty Mama could always circumvent the walls, no matter how high I made them. This was good, she needed to get away. The babies couldn't get out... at least, not at first. But then they figured out how to climb over and under the walls.

It became a challenge, trying to get them to stay in Kitten City. A challenge I was losing. But my door was closed and climbing the walls was great exercise so I soon just giggled about it.

The awesome kitty condo

After they went up for adoption (they all got adopted, including Misty Mama!) I started working on other configurations for Kitten City and even had an awesome Kitty Condo donated to the effort. I don't think Kitten City will ever be stagnant. It is an ever changing form just as the residents are never the same.

The Kitten City 10, when they were small enough to fit in a box