Smile Time
The past few days, we have been waiting for Chai to finally be ready to give birth to her second litter: the bonus litter we got after her successfully treated pyometra. We are thankful to have gotten the opportunity for a litter after Mozilla from our Web browser litter - thanks Annika! This was a combination that felt totally right.
In the meantime, Chai has been the big mama of the house, cuddling the other cats and dragging Big Bad in his neck if he did not come with her out of free will... Here she cuddles with her daughter Anansi from her first litter. She was pretty fed up with her daughter who never seem to move to her own place, but that's forgotten now.
Chai kept us on our toes since Monday, ready for kitten birth any second... She wanted us to sit next to her in the nesting area, cuddling her belly and holding paw. We had almost given up that the kittens would arrive at all when she woke us up at five in the morning to tell us something was about to happen. About an hour later, the first kitten was born. Chai is super when it is finally time to push out the little ones. She has no trouble whatsoever to push them out, once they are close enough, but she takes breaks between the babies which is a good thing as each kitten have the time to dry and find somewhere to nurse before the next arrive.
The entire litter consists of four boys... Why all these boys?! Wish that the numbers will even out one day as they should according to the Law of Large Numbers ;)
Only one red in the mix and tabby as well! The names of the babies come from different Mozilla software, a suiting theme as daddy is named Mozilla ;)
I have never been that fond of high white in NFOs, but well, I could surely get used to it! SeaMonkey has a catching distribution of white.
Well, do I need to even write it?! This is simply a mini-Moz!
My plan was to add a picture of Thunderbird here as well, but at the moment (?) it seems impossible to add a sixth image. He is a cutie with his thin white stripe across his nose, but otherwise normally coloured for a Restless-cat ;)
In all, we are already quite pleased with the litter! A bunch of promising boys who already shows lovely technical details. Birth weights between 121-138 grams and after a few hours, they had already gained 2-8 grams (the first-born the most and last-born the least), so Chai surely has milk for them. We will enjoy having them here the first 3 months of their lives!
In the meantime, Chai has been the big mama of the house, cuddling the other cats and dragging Big Bad in his neck if he did not come with her out of free will... Here she cuddles with her daughter Anansi from her first litter. She was pretty fed up with her daughter who never seem to move to her own place, but that's forgotten now.
Chai kept us on our toes since Monday, ready for kitten birth any second... She wanted us to sit next to her in the nesting area, cuddling her belly and holding paw. We had almost given up that the kittens would arrive at all when she woke us up at five in the morning to tell us something was about to happen. About an hour later, the first kitten was born. Chai is super when it is finally time to push out the little ones. She has no trouble whatsoever to push them out, once they are close enough, but she takes breaks between the babies which is a good thing as each kitten have the time to dry and find somewhere to nurse before the next arrive. 
The entire litter consists of four boys... Why all these boys?! Wish that the numbers will even out one day as they should according to the Law of Large Numbers ;) 
Only one red in the mix and tabby as well! The names of the babies come from different Mozilla software, a suiting theme as daddy is named Mozilla ;)
I have never been that fond of high white in NFOs, but well, I could surely get used to it! SeaMonkey has a catching distribution of white.
Well, do I need to even write it?! This is simply a mini-Moz! My plan was to add a picture of Thunderbird here as well, but at the moment (?) it seems impossible to add a sixth image. He is a cutie with his thin white stripe across his nose, but otherwise normally coloured for a Restless-cat ;)
In all, we are already quite pleased with the litter! A bunch of promising boys who already shows lovely technical details. Birth weights between 121-138 grams and after a few hours, they had already gained 2-8 grams (the first-born the most and last-born the least), so Chai surely has milk for them. We will enjoy having them here the first 3 months of their lives!
posted by restless at 5:27 pm
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