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Edited on Wed May-23-07 01:02 AM by Flaxbee
she might not have had enough food, enough rest, a safe enough place for them. Who knows? We had a mommacat whom we'd been feeding bring us her three babies (we kept the entire family) but they were all healthy, perhaps in large part b/c we'd been giving her regular meals (could tell she was nursing).
There might have been dogs, or possums or other creatures who harassed her. Maybe she'd chosen a shed or other hidey-hole that was moved, or someone decided to "finally clean out the back shed" or whatever and disturbed her, or mowed the lawn/cut the shrubs too close to the momma's birth/hiding place. Mommacats are often extremely fierce and can run off most predators, but she just could have been exhausted, or humans could have disturbed her and they're damn hard to run off, ya know?
Or, she could have been very young and inexperienced. Is MommaCat still around? Any way you could humanely trap her and get her spayed? Hard to do with ferals, I know, but if possible... also might save you a return visit with more kitties at a later date!
Thanks for taking care of her babies -- everyone needs help sometime, and this mommakitty just needed help.
edited for various punctuation/clarity reason.
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