The Kittens

Okay so I typed this up last week and now I have the photo to go with it. Enjoy! (p.s. I am in a better ....a whole lot better mood today. I found my happy place again & I'm holding on tight)

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New Life at My Feet

There is a feeling that is undescribable when watching or helping a creature give birth. Last night my Onyx had her litter of kittens. Now every other time she has always done this by herself and away from us, but last night was different because she wanted me. (Awwww) My mother can in the house and told me Jack (my boy dog) wouldn’t leave poor Onyx alone and she was very upset. Mom said she thought that she was going into labor. This happen about 9:00 p.m. I’d say. So I went outside to see if she was and to figure out why she wasn’t in the back having them like she always does. Onyx came to me as soon as I was out the door. She was purring really hard and kept meowing softly at me. Sure enough she laid right by my feet and out came the 1st one. It was breached, and she was having a hard time cleaning its face off. I had to do what I did with Jill when she had her puppies and clean it up myself. Black and white and yellow and striped, it was the cutest thing I have seen. Mom had her oxygen machine outside and told me to hook it up incase we might need it. So I did that, and used it to get this little kitten going. It was something else. At first I thought she just didn’t want to take care of it, but right at that moment another came out. She wasn’t chewing the bag like she was suppose to and hadn’t chewed the cord, so I had to cut the 1st one and go to the 2nd one to clean it up. White & orange was the colors of this one. Both with super long hair. As soon as she was done with those contractions she begin to clean the 1st one more. She wasn’t very interested in the 2nd one and I started to worry that maybe she didn’t want that one. It was very small. Not about 1 minute went by and she began to clean the 2nd one. Now of course I have delivered Jill’s puppies so I knew what I was doing and had both of them crying and breathing all on their own. What a sight, and how good Onyx was being with them. But then she wasn’t a stranger about this, it was her 4th litter. But why did she want me there this time? Mom said it was because she wanted to show off to me. Maybe. I’d say it was midnight before the 3rd one came out. I did everything I had to do with the others. Mom had went on to bed but my brother stayed with me to help. Another black, white, yellow, striped one. They were so cute and Onyx didn’t mind me taking care of them. She just laid right back down and rested. She had been having very hard contractions and I could tell by her face she was exhausted. I had a vet tell me one day that animals do not feel pain when in labor, but he had to be full of shit because I saw the way she was, she hurt, she was feeling the pain. I felt around her tummy to see if there was another one on it’s way. It really felt like one more in there so I decided to stay up with her and see. Dusty went to bed, and I sat there on the front sidewalk petting her and telling her how good she was. About 2:00 a.m. she still hadn’t had another contraction and she wasn’t acting like she was still in labor. So I decided to move them into a box. She hated that but I got her and them all nestled in. 2:30 a.m. I thought to myself "You need to go to sleep!" So I went on into the house. Watching from the window at the door I watched her take off with one. So I went back out. She did not like that box and decided that they would be safer in this old tire on my porch. So I moved the other two into the tire with her. Put all the shirts in there for a bed. She just looked at me with these eyes that said "thank you". As I watched her and them I knew why she needed me. Every one was breached and there was no way they would have made it without my help. I was so joyful I wanted to cry. Yet I was so tired I could hardly open my eyes. I could tell she felt safe in the tire and went to retire myself to bed at 3:00 a.m., knowing I was only getting 2 ½ hours of sleep. But it was all worth it, to have that undescribable feeling wash over me. To see life at the beginning and to be there to help continue it. I am so proud of her. I will take some photos this weekend and post them with this post as soon as I can so all of you can see the joy I helped bring to this crazy world.

As I sit here I am falling asleep as I am typing. I bet I go to bed at 7:30 p.m. tonight! (LMAO)

~tender kisses~