Pippi popped out five kittens in about an hour and a half this morning. The second one came out five minutes after the first. I think that’s a new record! This may have been the easiest delivery ever, except that these kittens were super squirmy when we were tying off the umbilical cords.
There are three reds and two dark torbies. With Pippi and Rigel as parents the reds should be boys and the torbies should be girls, but we won’t officially say for certain until their equipment becomes obvious. As ever, my hopes that mating a red girl with a blue boy would result in a purple kitten were dashed. I know, that can’t really happen, but it would be cool.
Pippi and the kittens are doing well. She is very much in “protective mode” so we’re staying out of her face for now. Otherwise she’ll do something inconvenient like move the kittens from the nest to under the bed.
In case you missed it from a previous post… All of the kittens in this litter are already reserved.