Moved Kittens

Sophie woke us up at 7am this morning. She was walking around the room howling. I woke up, grabbed my trusty flashlight and looked in the bottom of the night-stand, where Sophie had her kittens. There were no kittens. Hubby jumped out of bed and we began searching. Hubby soon found them in the closet, between two tubs, on top of a shirt of mine that had fallen down in between the tubs.

Sophie was meowing and kept walking over to the night-stand like she was upset that her kittens weren’t there. Hubby and I gathered up the kittens and placed them back on their towel in the bottom of the night-stand.

Sophie immediately began relocating her kittens to the closet again.

Dammit.

We grabbed Sophie and locked her in the bathroom and I relocated the kitten she had moved AGAIN, while hubby ran downstairs and began looking for a box. He cut part of one side out of the box and taped it together so the bottom would stay and there would be a “roof”.

Once that was made we put a fresh towel in the bottom and moved my tubs to put the box there. Then we put the kittens inside in the spot in the closet where Sophie had wanted to move them so badly. Then we showed Sophie.

She left them there but she still seems somewhat distressed this morning. While we were making blueberry pancakes this morning she came downstairs and started meowing at us. I don’t know if she’s really happy with the new arrangement or not but the kittens are in the quietest, darkest corner in our house, so she better be. It is possible she’ll want to move them again just because in the wild that’s what cats do. They move around every couple days so that no other animals pick up their scent and hurt the kittens. You’re harder to find the more you move around.

Sophie definitely has good instincts.

We’ll see. It’s not the best idea to let the mom-cat relocate the kittens too much, people have woken up to find that the whole litter had been killed because the mom was moving them around too much and had managed to puncture their thin, delicate, skin with her teeth. We’ll put them wherever she wants them put she needs to pick a spot and stick to it.