Tails of the Cat Guardians!

Our neighbors recently moved, and when they were cleaning up their yard they discovered that a wild or feral momma cat had had babies in their window well just a few days old (that was back in April)  The poor mama cat was starving to death.  We took pity on it and fed it our left over Easter ham, and then several cans of tuna, and finally dog food (cause that is all we had)  She ate dog food for several weeks, then I decided to break down and buy kitty food.  We made sure that mama cat always had food and water.  As soon as the babies eyes were open, we started to pet the kittens, there were 4 of them, 3 tiger striped and 1 black and white.  Aubrie took it on her self to become the foster mom, and she spent most of her time taking care of the kittens, and playing with them.  They have all gotten bigger now, and we found good homes for them.  We decided to keep the black and white one, and Aubrie named it bootsie,  She really wanted one of the orange ones though :(  I was able to take the whole litter to our local shelter, and have all of them spayed and neutered for a great price....Free, because they are "Feral" or wild.  they want to control the cat population.  They cut the tip off the mama cats ear to show she is a feral cat that has been fixed.  It has been really fun to have a playful kitten around.  today Aubrie fell asleep holding the kitten, they were both curled up on the chair, it was very cute to say the least