Welcome home ladies!
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I bet they are glad to be home!
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What if you can’t catch them? Will they dissolve and fall out? Do they have those types of stitches for animals?
So did Victoria cause a vet tech resignation or was she reasonable?
24 toes?? That’s an extra paw full of toes!
They all look like they came thru the ordeal just fine.
Good job all!
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https://www.hdw-inc.com/glop.htm
I hope this link works, it is the recipe for kitten glop. My friend uses goats milk in it.
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I want to just say that I love the phrase “kitten glop.” 
Glad the girls are home! They look no worse for the wear.
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IME the weight gain fluctuates, as long as they are eating and drinking, they will be ok. Some kittens are not porkers compared to their litter mates. I had the best luck with friskies canned pate. I would rather overfeed than underfeed at this stage of their development.
I had 2 babies that had me worried since they world not gain and were so uninterested in cat food as opposed to mamas milk. Turns out they were just slow on the uptake and accepted cat food in a couple of weeks and are healthy plump adults now.
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Oh, poor girls - they were just babies having babies. Their lives are much better now. I don’t think anyone - even Victoria - is going to stray too far from the bountiful food bowl and Hotel La Kittee.
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Sounds like my Ollie. At home he was hideous to handle and would bite, scratch and growl and act like an ass. I would warn the vet staff that he was a biter, etc and they would handle him very carefully and of course, he was a perfect saint. I’m sure they thought I was nuts. Everyone loved him and said he was so wonderful - he would purr and gobble up all their treats…sigh…Jekyll and Hideous.
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They said they’ll be okay. I’m sure I can get two back in, just maybe not the Queen.
They said Polly and Louisa were fine. Victoria was just scared. Not much drama from these good ladies.
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They’re off the KMR and those recipients look more suited for itty bitty babies. I think I’m overthinking it. They’re strong and healthy. These are just little kitties. Six kittens from a mama that wasn’t even a year old….
I found a better kitten wet food and bought a ton of it. I’ll ease them back up to wet food twice a day and an extra serving for the little ones.
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Did you ever find the Baby Daddy?
That’s one studcat that needs “brain surgery” ASAP! 
Ralph’s Harem is Sooooooo lucky you {giggle} Bought the Farm 
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Tango, my first ginger kitty from years ago was horrible at the vet. When I was picking him up from being neutered the techs asked me if I would mind going to the back and getting him. They said he wasn’t very happy and had attacked a few of the girls. As I followed them in the back I heard this ear splitting scream coming from my docile cat. As soon as he saw me he quieted down and jumped into his carrier when I opened the cage door.
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I remember in one of the James Herriot stories, he had two ferals at his own house that he was trying to tame. It took forever and an age, and there was a period of many months eventually where his wife could pet them but he couldn’t. The ferals, especially the female, obviously resented him catching them to get them fixed in early, wildest days. Back in those early, wildest days, he put out a drugged meal, but he didn’t want to drug them to oblivion, in case he couldn’t stalk and grab well enough when they left the morning meal, so it was just enough to majorly slow them down. He stalked and grabbed nicely and took them to his clinic for neuter and spay, but the cats were still sleepily awake (until anesthesia) and were watching him, aware of who had committed this crime.
Anyway, the female held a grudge FOREVER. He specifically said in the story that he was unable to get her again two weeks later to remove the stitches. She wasn’t going to eat another drugged meal, wasn’t trappable, not interested, NOPE. It was well over a year before she finally became friends with him and he could check her out professionally. She was fine; the stitches had not been a problem and came out on their own.
Out of books and much closer to home, my HRH Rosalind removed her own stitches two days before the vet would have. She had not been chewing the incision in the interim. She just decided on that day that they were ready to be removed. I took her to the vet to make sure she hadn’t done any damage. The vet was highly amused and said she was fine. Said there might be more of a scar due to her DIY techniques than if they had been professionally removed two days later, but no worries.
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I am glad your 3 ladies and the kittens are all doing well.
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We haven’t seen him since we first moved in. A streak of large, feral, black and white taking off into the woods. I’m sure it was the Tom because none of the ladies have white and most of the kittens do.
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I remember reading that story. We take it for granted now, but it was so much harder to manage feral cats. Spaying and neutering hasn’t even been a regular practice for that long. Forty or fifty years? We fixed our cats, but even today, many don’t bother with their barn cats.
When I was a teen, this cat named Harriet had kittens every year at a barn where I boarded. The land was sold to a developer and everyone promised to take Harriet, but when I stopped by the barn weeks after everyone had left, she was still there. She came tumbling out of the hay pile, pregnant and hungry. She came home with me and my mom tolerated the cat and kittens in our garage until I found them homes. Harriet was spayed and came with me to the new boarding barn. She lived a happy, long life there. One lady especially liked her and took special care of her after I went off to college.
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40-50 years sounds about right IME. When I was a child nobody spayed or neutered their cats, or their dogs for that matter. One family in my neighborhood had a big battle-scarred handsome tom who was “credited” whenever a new litter was born. I had only one friend whose cat had been spayed, and the operation had left her blind.
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Your mom sounds like a great mother. I can certainly see her in you and your providing for your kitties.
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