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A tale of 3 kittens & 1 duckling

William

Wise Old Thumper
The kittens eyes started opening yesterday! They're 9 days old now. Well technically the black one is only 8 days old since he was born a few minutes after midnight.

Nyx is continuing to be a good mom:D When she's not running around and playing that is :lol: She'll have so much fun playing with them when they're a little older!

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I love when they stretch their little legs out while nursing!

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All curled up!

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All in a row nursing :love:

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Nyx is passed out :lol: Kittens are exhausting!

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The little drowned duckling is 24 days old today! Aside from what must be a scab on top of her head and some missing feathers on her head where the drake held her with his bill you wouldn’t have known anything ever happened to her. I think I'm going to call her Nemo.

Amazingly she acts just like my previous imprinted ducklings (wants to be with me 24/7, peeps when I leave, follows me, loves affection etc). I wasn’t expecting that at all! Although I don’t think she could be imprinted since she was 6 days old when I got her - that’s just a couple days too old to imprint, from what I’ve always heard anyway.

These span over the last couple of weeks so she's slightly younger in some pictures

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She sees a feather! She loves to play with them

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Got it!

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Watching game of thrones together last week. she stared at the screen (I was watching it on laptop) for awhile, all like intent lol

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Chewing my lips, she’s gotten into the habit of doing that lately :roll:

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Her and her stuffed toy duck

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Being cuddly

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Reading together

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Laying with her neck down flat, it’s so adorable how ducklings do this

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I love this pic because you can see her little teeth when you look close. I don't know why but I find duck teeth so cute. They're teeny tiny but sharp and hurt quite a lot!

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June kept going over to her and the duckling was all excited, wanting to meet her, but June wanted to hurt her and the silly duckling didn't realize so I had to keep my hand nearby

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So innocently cute

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She used to love sleeping in my shirt, on my stomach, when she was younger!

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Now she loves sleeping in my hand, or with my hand cupped around her

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Her tiny little foot

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Pretending to be a dinosaur lol

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What amazing photos.

I've had kittens over the past 20 years (well, not me, but three of my cats) and watching them born and growing up is amazing. I am hopeless at parting with them though which is how I ended up with 10 cats at one point. Are you going to keep your three?

I would love to have another litter at some point but would foster a pregnant cat next time rather than let one of mine have kittens as in the UK there are so many cats needing homes that I don't want to add to the numbers. I didn't think of that when I was younger.

Your duckling looks awesome too:love:
 
There's an overpopulation of cats here as well so I feel bad for adding 3 more to the equation, although we are keeping them.

I've been trying to talk my parents into letting me foster :D Fostering pregnant cats would be awesome! It's pretty amazing to watch them be born and watch them grow. When I was 12/13 I raised 2 other litters of kittens. 3 that I found in my woods, their eyes were just starting to open when we found them. We had to handfeed them of course which was a cool experience. And then the other was another accidental litter, in that case our boys got through a locked door when we were gone for a few hours.

I've never fostered before but I'd probably find it hard to part with them too. I really want to foster cats and other animals though and since I love interacting with lots of different animals I'd just keep telling myself that in order to do that I'd have to part with them!:lol:
 
gorgious photos. the duckling is a proper sweetie- but then what duckling isn't? lol and the kittens look beautiful-and a lovely healthy looking trio
 
Raising kittens is a wonderful experience :love: (I had a pregnant cat dumped on me along with her sister. She had five kittens - we kept one and the rest went to family and friends)

Also love the duckling! I also keep muscovies and they are amazing :love:

You got names for the little kittens yet?
 
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