Welcome to our Cozy Little Nursery!
Making dreams come true...
one family at a time for the past 20 years.
This is our nursery. Here, the babies are born and spend
most their time until the day arrives when they leave to begin a new life, in another home.
 "New Lives! Camera! Action!"
One thing that's kind of hard to "see and know" on the web site is the nursery is in our home.
It's right next to our bed room so the babies are raised with constant 24 hour TLC!
Just as the kittens are joined in our hearts- the Nursery is joined to our home.
Here the kittens will interact with us daily and get large doses of
Human Kindness and Tons of Love!
It's almost as if the floor is ALIVE at times!! haha!
Weeeee......
Just hanging out!:)
Yes! This is one busy place as you can tell
by the pictures. The babies seem to never
stop...or even slow down for that matter! Haha!
The nursery is done in "Precious Moments" because
we believe, ALL the minutes in a cat's life are down
right Precious!:)
Can't get me mountain!
Tree of balls!
"We use Cages.....BUT we DO NOT Abuse that Privilege."
We see a necessity for cages, for health and safety among other things.
We use our cages as a tool to aid in the process of bringing up a healthy, happy
and well-rounded kitten!
First, one must understand that when you get more than one
mother cat in any room and they are pregnant or have just
delivered they are very protective, they want to be secluded
as we would as humans...we would not want to give
birth in the front room or in the presence of several
other mothers. Nor do our feline friends.
Our cats run free in the cattery until they are approx 3 weeks from
from their due date. We then move them into the nursery, where they
are given their own birthing room (See the private birthing room) HERE
Mama is put in the birthing room at nights to get used to where she
will deliver, and gets out during the day to mingle with the other
mother cats. Once the mother cat delivers, she stays in her
birthing room for the first couple days after delivery, not
only to bond with her babies but to rest and recover from the delivery.
First week of life:
Only after about the 4th day after delivery, the mother cat is given the choice
several times a day to get out of her room and just hang out in the nursery.
Usually the mother cat will want to stay close to her babies until they reach
about 2 weeks old.
Once the babies eyes are open and they are starting to toddle out of the
kittening box (Usually about 3- 3 1/2 weeks old) The mother cat will then
spend a few hours a day, out in the main cattery away from her babies.
During this time the mother cat and her family are moved to a large
cage-over 6 ' long and 3 ' tall.
This cage is filled with tons of cat toys, cat condo's, kitten tents and other
wonderfully fun play things!
The 4th week of life:
For mother cat is a very busy time!
She is teaching her youngsters how to eat from the bowl, and how to use
the litter pan.
This is where the caged environment is essential
If the babies are running all over the house, or even in one
room...
it makes it VERY hard for the mother cat to teach the kittens good litter pan habits.
I've tried raising my kittens free-roaming in my home and watched the
struggles
of mother cat as she tried to teach her babies proper toilet habits.
This way is so much easier on her!
The 5th week of life:
Once the kittens have all mastered their litter pan habits,
They are turned loose in the nursery (and throughout our house) with their mom.
The babies & Mama's then all merge into one big ball of furry-purring playmates!
The 7th week of life:
The mother cat will now be removed from the nursery and returned to the cattery.
The babies run loose.They have mastered all the social and litter pan skills they need.
They are used to being handled by my family and have acclimated to life well!
I had my cats before I had my four children.
The baby kittens have always been a very big part of our family.
And since adding the nursery onto on home, the kids spend even
more time in "Kitty Heaven"!
You'd party too if you had 9 lives!!!!
"I'll get it!"
Of course no nursery is complete without baby cribs.
Cozy Kittens Jungle Gym!!
"Aunty Sue...I think we have a HUGE bug problem in the nursery,
but don't worry, I'll help tackle them!!"
Our Grooming counter.
"Cozy Kittens Dizzy Dome"
"I think I can...I think I can....."
Thanks for stopping by!:)
It's not an apple tree....
It's not a pear tree....
It's a Cozy Kitten tree!!!
Shall we pick one, two or three?
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