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After a few years of Justin's klondike dieing (his dog at his mom's house), his cat Trip getting killed (by accident - also at his mom's), and his turtle Kurdt, going to turtle heaven, an orange cat shows up at his mom's house. She's adorable, sweet, obviously has been abandoned, and looks IDENTICAL to Trip, but with both ears. She needed a good home, and Justin was willing to bring her in.

I can never resist a fur baby, so we took her in, and named "orange cat", Halo. (I honestly ran out of coffee names lol) So Halo was suspected to be pregnant. Shortly after her arrival to our home, I took her to the vet to receive her shots and get wormed, and confirmed she was indeed pregnant. This was around Easter.
Life continues, and so does her pregnancy. We tried numerous times to introduce her to our current house of felines (4, not including her), and sometimes it worked while other times it didn't.

Thursday a.m. Halo wakes me up around 340 a.m. meowing at the top of her lungs. (side note - we kept her in our extra bathroom just in case she were to go into labor when we weren't around or asleep). I figured she was just hungry, but this continued for 30 more minutes. I finally got up to check on her. Seems she just wanted a lot of LOVING! I was not happy, but gave in, and later went back to bed. To keep her from waking me up again, Justin moved her and her litter box and food into the spare room and into the large kennel.

I left for school , and in a text told my best friend in new york that i thought she was going to have her babies any moment, especially with her behavior that morning. Puddin' Pop, mama to frappe' and latte', acted just the same a few hours before she went into labor.
So sure enough I arrive home that afternoon to find 4 little babies....in the LITTER BOX! Halo is a mess, the babies are a mess!! I moved her and them back into the bathroom and cleaned them up the best that i could with what time i had! I was soooo thrilled to FINALLY have those babies, and to know all of them would be ok. (Please remember that Puddin' pop gave birth to a stillborn, and then had to have an emergency c-section [i kid you not!!] to deliver frappe' and latte').

I get home later in the evening and Halo and babies are fine. We decide to move her and the babies into the spare room and let her hide them and do her motherly kitty duties as they do. She is NOT happy about the other 4 adult cats on the other side of the door and has bolted out and manage to pick a few fights, but otherwise it's great!

I awake this morning and go check on those sweet little babies. And suddenly I see FIVE squirming fur balls. Wait, no, there were only 4 yesterday. *goes to check pics* Yes, only four. *counts again* 1...2....3.....4......FIVE!!!! What in the world?!?!?!?!?!?

*memory balloon* Her belly was still slightly swollen last night, and I asked Justin," Do you think there could still be a kitten in there?" Justin says,"No, I'm sure it's just her swollen or maybe it's milk or something." He would know better than I, as he's seen lots of pregnancies with cats.

Ah HA! That's what that swollen spot in her belly was.

So we now have 3 orange kittens, one being a runt, and 2 black kittens with some beautiful markings.

We move this coming Wednesday to our new home in Lafayette. And i've come to the realization, that at the age of 26, and after counting the TEN cats that are now in my home, I can honestly and completely say....

"I am officially the cat lady"