Cat lovers save 5 kittens from the cold, accepting a Christmas gift from the CDS by helping a local pregnant stray raise her supermeowdel litter: 'We saw them take their first wobbly steps'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Dec 13, 2025 4:00 AM EST

When you're a cat lover, one thing can lead to another pretty quickly. One moment you're befriending a local stray black cat, admiring her shimmering fur and leaving out a few kibbles every day, and the next thing you realize, you're a kitten midwife. 

A cat-loving couple experienced this zero-to-family moment when the harsh Canadian winter chill started to rise. 

Knowing that the year's end would only become more frigid and unforgiving, they worried about the lady kitty outside, whom they had become accustomed to feeding. Alas, the black cat mama showed up looking a little plumpier than usual, signaling to her favorite humans that she was ready to come inside… And fast! 

As it turns out, she had a litter of kittens on the way and needed the human's help and shelter to save them. Lucky for this black cat, she came to the right place, burrowing deeper into the hearts of a couple of folks who loved her kittens before they were ever even born. 

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  • We brought a pregnant stray into our house, and got to spend 10 weeks with the sweetest bunch of kittens
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  • We had been feeding a stray black cat at our front step every day for a few weeks when we noticed that she seemed to be pregnant. Since it was starting to get colder (and we're in Canada), we brought her to our vet to check for a chip and then brought her into our house.
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  • After only two weeks, she gave birth to a litter of five kittens in the corner of my office! Four girls and one big boy. Since we hadn't had a chance to socialize the mama (who we have named Lucy) with our three other cats,
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  • we had to divide the house using a temporary fence. We also turned part of our newly- renovated basement into a full kitten nursery. I named the litter after my favourite sumo
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  • wrestlers, and they lived up to their namesakes! These babies loved to playfight and wrestle (and eventually, to climb pants). They were silly and wild and sweet.
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  • We kept the kittens for 10 weeks, before seeing them off to good homes - four of them in two pairs, and one to a home with nice older cats. It was more difficult to let them go than I thought it would be. We
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  • watched them being born, and saw them open their eyes for the first time, and take their first wobbly steps. We cleaned a lot of messes, and collected a lot of little scratches, and missed a lot
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  • of sleep. It all happened so fast, and then it was over. There were a few days when I cried, after they had left. I miss them. But I'm so happy we were lucky enough to have the opportunity to give them a good start.
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  • Mama Lucy will be staying with us now. She's barely out of kittenhood herself, and she was more than ready to retire. She'll be getting spayed in a few weeks.
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  • I had meant to share this very first photo, too! We had carefully built a nest for Lucy with a box and some soft old blankets, but she chose to give birth right on the wooden floor, in the corner by my bookshelf. I scooched some blankets in under her, afterwards. :-)
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  • CrazyCatLadyNL . We also fed a stray and called her Lucy. She brought her four kittens when they were four weeks old. We took Lucy and the kittens in, "to socialize them, so they could be adopted".
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  • number_ten Supermodel kittens (mom's a looker too). Thanks for taking care of them. I don't know that I could ever foster.
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