Mommacat Monday: To be or not to be?

Well, friends, the big day has arrived. The day of reckoning. The day of revelation. The day... Ok, my human says enough now.






Friends, today is the day the human learned the truth about whether or not I have mommacat status. I'm still gonna make you wait though! I have to tell you stuff that happened before. Ok, well I don't have to, but it's all about building tension, you know.





True to her word, the human has been a cleaning demon this weekend. This madness does hit her from time to time, but thankfully not very often. Don't get me wrong, she keeps the place clean, but as she said to Bug on the phone this morning when he asked her what on earth was going on, "It's not good enough to clean things when I'm like this. They need to be squeaky clean." And believe me, friends, if the amound of cleaning products is anything to go by, everything should shriek, never mind squeak!





Oh, I have something to tell you about squeaking in a minute, but before that... Kittens, look away now please. What follows is horrific and not for tender ears. She got the sucky monster out and it ate all of my fur on the sofas and everywhere else! Then she got water and cloths and icky smelling cleaning stuff and scrubbed the kitchen floor. Next she got out a cloth to go and take the layer of dust off stuff. Then it was off to the bathroom with a scrubber and some more stinky stuff to make the bath, sink, and even the horrid smelly human litterbox bowl thing squeak! She put loads of washing on the line outside. She let loose the sucky monster twice on the sofas to make sure all of my fur was gone! She even arranged my toys to make them look neat! But that lasted all of about ten seconds till i jumped into the middle of them and scattered them. She got the hint after that!





Thanks to so many of you who invited me over to yours to escape the madness of Casa de Tia. If you happened to notice a bit of your food was missing, or a warm spot in a comfy place, it was only me, so no need to worry! I, on the other hand, must.





Why? Cuz some of my food has been going missing! Not enough for the human to notice, but I sure do. She got an idea of what was going on night before last though. She was lying in bed when she heard the noise of my kibble being eaten. Sleepily, she stretched her feet down the bed... Only to encounter me at the bottom of it! she froze, listening hard. There it was again. Crunch, crunch, and it wasn't me! She could hear tiny noises coming from the food bowl, and she knew. So did I. We had a mouse, at least, she thinks we do. I stood up quietly on the bed, watching. It was fascinating. I decided to jump down and say hello to it, but as soon as I did, it ran away real, real quick. I didn't want to chase it. I don't kill things, you see, so I just let it go. For some reason, this really didn't please the human. She won't sleep in our bedroom and has the door closed tight, as if that'll stop it! She's also left a few kibbles out just to make sure she wasn't imagining things. Last night, none of them were taken, but she's gonna give it another night, as she thinks she's found his hole and wants to be sure. If it takes the food, she'll have to put measures in place to get rid of it. She won't tell me what those are. Says that I don't need to know, but that I'm not allowed in the bedroom for a while in case I eat stuff and get sick. This doesn't make any sense to me, but there's little I can do about it, as the door's closed and I can't open it. She says that she's taken all my food outta there, sept the bits she left down for mousey, so I'm not to worry that he's stealing my dinner!





This morning, the human reminded me that her friend would be coming to see her today, but also wanted to see me. Sure enough, she arrived, and do you know what the first thing she did was? She bent right down, started giving me scritches, and told me just how beautiful I was! I decided I liked this ladypeople. She obviously has a lot of sense! Her and the human made an awful lot of talk noise for the longest time, and she brought the human lotsa stuff like litter trays,a special spray for mine to stop anything smelling, some yummy food, some soup for the human and some super duper treats! And you know what? She even brought a present all for me! She's a quilter, and she had some scraps left over, so she made me my very own brightly coloured quilt! It's big and gorgeous and so, sooooo comfy. The human spread it on the sofa, and straight away I climbed on top of it and went to sleep. I absolutely love, love, love it, and it's all mine! Just for me! Especially made! No other cat in the world has one exactly like mine. How cool is that! It's all made from scraps, so has lotsa different colours and textures in it. Oh how I love it!





While she was here, she taught the human to cut my nails without hurting me. She also checked me over. Ok, Ok, I spose I've made you wait long enough. So, here's the bit you've been waiting for.





The ladypeople flipped me over to look at my yummy tummy and my, well, my nimples (I'm not saying the real word. It's not polite!). She said my tummy was indeed yummy, but I decided I didn't want her to see the colour of my nimples. I didn't want to give up my secret after all! No matter how much I shouted though, she persisted until I lay still and let her look. Friends, my nimples, all of them........................... Were pink!!!!!!!!!! That means that I am definitely carrying babies! Friends, I am gonna be a mummycat!





Now that I've told you, I'm glad I have. It's so good to finally be able to talk about all this, to tell you all how excited I am. Oh how super this will be! Nobody knows how many babycats I have inside of me yet, but that doesn't matter. At this stage it's hard to be sure anyway. But I have definitely pinked up, so there's no doubt now. My babies will be born around the 27th of June give or take a few days. I'm so, so excited, and not least because this means that I get nothing but the best food, and as much of it as I want, too! I think that's the bestest thing ever!





My human would like to post a link so that you can all track my pregnancy along with me. It shows pictures of babycats at different stages of development inside a mummycat. However, she's not sure whether she should or not. Obviously, the babies pictured didn't make it. They were taken from cats whose owners wanted them spayed even though they had babycats in them, and we know this will be distressing to many peoples and cats alike. But if we do post it, you'll know exactly what my babies look like as they're getting bigger inside me. What do you all think? Would you like to see, or would you rather not know?





Well, I'm so, so happy today, and that's nothing to the size of the smile my human has on her face! Neither of us can wait until babies arrive!





In quick other news, you should all go and visit House of Cats
where it's Barney's 2nd birthday today. I'm sure he could do with some help celebrating!





Happy, happy mommacat Monday to you all!

Oops, I may have slipped!

Friends, I'm ashamed of myself. I may have slipped and let my secret out of the bag, but not totally! Let me tell you all about it.




Dogman came up to spend the night last night cuz he needed to get some things done up here before he went back to where he works during the week. I've told you before that I like dogman a lot, so this morning, when he made noises about wanting to see my yummy tummy, I didn't think anything of it! Oh, if I can convince the torturing Trish people from the Katnip Krew, I might even put a picture of my yummy tummy up here, and then I may even be able to enter the competition of the OK Cats! I don't know if it's too late, but I can ask.





Anyway, the human asked him this morning if he could have a look at my nimples to see if I was pinking up. I've kept things very quiet whenever the human's had a feel. Some peoples say that the nimples enlarge when they go pink, and others say they don't, so I wasn't too worried about her having a feel. She tries not to check every day so that if there are any changes, she'll notice them more. Anyway, I'm getting off topic again.





Dogman asked the human to take me into the kitchen today where the light is strongest. His eyes are broken too, but not as badly as the human's. He can see, but it's only a little bit, so he needed the light to help him. Well, the human, trator that she is, distracted me with lotsa lovin' so that I got all big and long and stretchy and relaxed on her shoulder. Then she started to tickle my yummy tummy. What I didn't know was that she was parting the fur around my middle nimples so that Dogman, who is now a trator too, could take a sneaky peak. I mean, a man, whether he's a cat or a people, is not sposed to look at a ladycat's nimples! "Yeah," was his only word to the human for a long time, but then he followed up with, "But I'm not sure. My eyes might be playing tricks, but I think so." The human showed him some more of my nimples just to make sure, then she took me into the living room and put me on my back on her knee. She carried on tickling my yummy tummy, lulling me into a false sense of security. She knows how much I like that! So, here is what she found.





Dogman thinks my nimples are pink, but that's in no way conclusive as his eyes do play up and pink is one of the colours he struggles most to see. The human found that the two nimples that are in the middle (not the set closest to my back legs but the next set up) are enlarged compared to the other ones... A lot! They're firmer to the touch too. Now this could be cuz they're right on the beautiful round swell of my yummy tummy which means they stand out more, but the human has never noticed them so big and prominent before. However, all of my other nimples are still quite small. They may be a wee bit bigger, but if they are, it's not by much at all.





Am I just starting to pink? Will the other nimples enlarge over the next week? Does this mean I'm having kittens? Well, I'll leave you to ponder about that. I'm still not telling! Let's see what you think when you gaze again upon the floof which adorns the Tia tummy! Mom Trish, would you mind? I might stop calling you torturer!