We've been Adopted

"Mommy" cat has been visiting us for several weeks now. Patches and her get into quite the screaming matches. And respecting Richard's wishes, we haven't feed her...until this weekend. Richard has been building me a pond in our front yard (By our front door). We got the pond in the ground and filled it with water to make sure that it wouldn't leak a couple of weekends ago. Since then, we have had other things to get done and the pond was put to the side...still with water in it. On Friday, Richard and I went to Pebble Junction and picked out our rocks to go around the pond and to build the waterfall. So we got up on Saturday ready to place the rocks around the pond, when we noticed two kittens drinking out of the pond. That is when we realized that the cat that has taken up residence in our yard is a Mommy...mommy to FIVE kittens. Sooooo...we feed her and her five kittens. Now that we're feeding this family, they are staying in our front yard and we have to say...they are so cute!!!! But one sad thing though, Mommy cat is very friendly and not quite full grown herself. I think that Mommy cat was someone's cat until she got pregnant and then she was put outside. It's my goal to get the kittens friendly enough to take all of them to the SPCA and get them their shots, dewormed and spayed or neutered...we'll see.