Not quite as planned.

Tibbs was due to have her kittens a day or two ago, but having said that it is not uncommon for a cat to go a little past their due date. Unfortunately I had a course to attend today but left Graham in charge with strict instructions to watch Tibbs and if necessary put her in the kittening pen and monitor her. Well, I came home at around 4pm, to find Graham trying to extract Tibbs and 3 very new born kittens from a brand new, formerly cream, scratch post. Other than being a little cold all 3 kittens were fortunately fine and they and Tibbs were moved to a more appropriate area.

After watching the new family for a few hours I wasn't comfortable that she had finished, so off we went for a quick xray just to be on the safe side, thankfully there were no kittens evident on the xray so we are now home where Tibbs is settling down with her new family.

This is a picture taken just after I got home, so bedding was still bloody from the babies, rest assured they now have a clean bed but I won't take any fresh pics until tomorrow as they have had more than enough disruption today. I can tell you that we have 2 blues and a lilac.

We are off to the vets again tomorrow as Eliza, who has had a fairly dramatic haircut, is absolutely hopping lame, so fingers crossed that we don't end up needing anything other than rest and pain relief.