Grace in Cat Heaven

Grace was in heaven while we were at my dads farm. There were cats everywhere! The three huddled together are momma cats babies, but they didn't like people so we just took pictures of them. The kittens that Grace played with were from the milk can (the last picture) The day before we got there Carol discovered them in an old milk can on the front porch. They didn't know they existed until the kittens were weeks old. Grace and I set them free the next day. Their momma ended up moving them to the old smokehouse. Grace would take a handful of food, put it inside the door and wait for the kittens to come out. She always had to have two at a time. She tried to talk us into three at a time, but we always said two were enough. We constantly heard her say, "Ummm... I'm going to go get some kittens to bring inside." She did a pretty good job socializing the kittens. They started out fairly friendly, I guess spending your first few weeks of life in a milk can keeps you from fearing humans. I knew Grace would get attached to them, and of course she broke down and cried every time we had to leave. I wish we could let her have a kitten, but our landlord said we could only have one pet. Hopefully we will be buying a house when Scottie does his residency so she can have one then. I'm sure she will still be obsessed with them in two years. Until then she will just have to go visit other people to get her cat fix.