These guys are starting with the climbing, which is both good and bad. Good part is they're getting bigger and stronger. Bad is that a couple are starting to climb up the mesh on the gate I have separating them from my resident cats. Just hope they don't make it over! I have another mesh barrier in place just in case. Too hot to close the bedroom door and cut off cool air from the rest of the apartment. Also one of them climbed onto my bed last night, which makes me nervous about rolling over in my sleep and squashing them. :(

More pictures:

Eve - very skinny from pregnancy and nursing 7 kittens

Eve and her kittens are living in Queens, New York City. If you're interested in adopting one (or two!) adorable kittens, please post here!

Kittens at five weeks

I've taken a lot of pictures, but this one is the best, even if only six of the seven is in it. The missing kitten is a light grey tabby.

They're all over the place now - playing, running, wrestling with each other. Peeing and pooping is in the litter box now, and I've removed their tiny 'my first litter box', kept a small box for them and got a large box for mommy Eve. They prefer mom's box, of course. :)

Seems like they get bigger every day. Most are now eating kitten food. They grow up so fast! Poor Eve is worn out and bone thin from the demands of nursing, so I hope they finish weaning sooner rather than later. (The vet gave me high-calorie food for her, and she eats a lot of kitten food too.)

My friend has decided to take one of the gray and white tuxedos, and her aunt wants to take one of the darker tabbies but can't pick him/her up until December. Four kittens still need homes!

Eve and her kittens are living in Queens, New York City. If you're interested in adopting one (or two!) adorable kittens, please post here!

Kittens at play - 4 weeks old

At four weeks the kittens started to come out of the nest and explore, and became much more active. They decided at some point to move into the kitty condo I had put in the bedroom as a scratching post, I guess because it's more enclosed. A couple of them started lapping up KMR, and they started using the litter box - unfortunately they peed more next to the box than inside it, but they're learning. :)

My friend took these videos of the kittens playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcMvF-rTcCI&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJvthYfUtSQ&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D373xj7iYdE&feature=youtu.be

I took Eve to the vet for tests, and she's negative for FeLV and FIV. Yay! I've decided to keep the little runt, who I've named Teeny.

Call me paranoid, but I called North Shore to confirm the kittens are on the waiting list and asked if they're moving up. Too soon to tell, the person said.

Eve and her kittens are living in Queens, New York City. If you're interested in adopting one (or two!) adorable kittens, please post here!

Kittens at 3 weeks

Eve is a cat rescued from a grocery store next to my building. She was pregnant when one of the store clerks took her home. Looking back, I wish I'd insisted on taking her then, when she could have been aborted and spayed early in the pregnancy, but the combination of my other personal commitments and the clerk's lack of follow-through on the several times we set up prevented that. The clerk couldn't keep Eve and the kittens - she knows nothing about cats, has three small children who were playing with the kittens like toys, and doesn't have the time or money. Finally a friend and I went over there and took Eve and the litter.

Here's a picture of Eve and the seven kittens at three weeks:

It's hard to see here, but one of them is a runt - the clerk told me later she was afraid the kitten was going to die because she was always hungry and crying. Fortunately she didn't, and I made sure she got the opportunity to nurse without being crowded out at least a few times a day.

I got them on the waiting list for North Shore Animal League right away - fingers crossed they get in, but there's no guarantee.

Eve and her kittens are living in Queens, New York City. If you're interested in adopting one (or two!) adorable kittens, please post here!