For a lot of people, it would be a dream come true to come home and find dozens of kittens in your backyard. Twitter user CuriousQuail couldn’t believe what the cat gods had done to cause litter after litter to show up right outside his back door.
2 years ago today this first batch of feral little balls of fluff were found in our backyard and it’s not hyperbole to say our lives changed a lot as a result. At the time we had no idea how many more would eventually show up
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
WARNING: THREAD OF KITTEN PHOTOSHOOT pic.twitter.com/KGWOXqAC8Y
They knew they couldn’t let the poor kittens defend themselves, but that meant they’d have to go through some harsh learning curves to take care of them.
We knew absolutely nothing about taking care of kittens but since our yard was already a hotbed for coyotes and raccoons we knew leaving them outside meant death or feral cat overpopulation. pic.twitter.com/gGcKx8aCek
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
This is how Kindred, Smokey, Possum and Snowapple came into our lives. (The fifth kitten we found a home for later) pic.twitter.com/CWZzdaFGwV
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
We spent a vast majority of time nursing them, keeping them warm and happy and they evolved into these like roving balls of love. pic.twitter.com/iolOMe4svp
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
As adorable as the kittens were, they were soon overwhelmed with the number of kittens showing up in their yard. They decided to lay out some traps to hopefully catch their feral moms and dads, but it seemed like nothing would stop this Kitten Portal.
We’re late-season time skipping like crazy here but to do the math properly we were at 13 cats in the rescue when shit got even crazier. We trapped (at long last) Jon Snow and Bison’s feral sister, Lilith, as well as the Mom of a huge chunk of these Kittens (Cutie) pic.twitter.com/bbWaFlJ4tw
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
Buuuuut as it turns out, Cutie had already given birth before falling into the safe trap. Under our house. Six new kitterns, discovered via a mewing sound in the bathroom vent. I climbed under the crawl space and pulled ‘em all into a pillow case. ENTER: The Fuzzles. pic.twitter.com/dBvmSnwH0i
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
All of them got fixed and are now living happily in our Desert Art Colony. Cats are good, people. Everyone should rescue cats. pic.twitter.com/zhAy0ow5Qe
— 🎃 watching watership down (1978) as a child (@curiousquail) March 27, 2018
If you want to see more adorable pictures of these kittens, check the original post or follow CuriousQuail to see what kittens will pop up next.
