Who wants to wait whilst my kittens are born!

Be a responsible owner. Letting your cat out, intact is not responsible if daddy cat isn't yours. This isn't my experience, this is what you actually did, no?
Make sure the kittens are going to be neutered.

Rain on parade, lol, if you see what rescue folk see, you'd not say that. Glad you've nice homes lined up.

Did they say why?

And the very first thing you've missed out that leads me to disbelieve because seen and heard it before;

She let her cat have kittens when so many out there need homes.
She didn't mention her black daddy cat being neutered.

Hope it’s not me being weird, but I really love to see a little boy with a beloved cat. Such an all-round encouraging sight.

What a clever girl! How wonderful.
Right this minute Ive my two very elderly 🐾🐾 ladies on my lap but I still yearn for a few jolly kittens. Unlikely to ever happen again now Im so old, but aren’t they the best thing in the world?
Many congrats to the relieved mother and I hope her babies all thrive. Nothing makes a cat happier than this! x

I’m in London and got rejected from 4 big name rescues and 3 smaller local charities so I ended up buying from a breeder.

Sadly I think you’re right. I saw a comment near the start of this thread saying how nice it was to have a lovely happy thread with no nastiness. It didn’t last long before people descended to derail the thread and have a go at the OP. Many people clearly haven't bothered to read the OP’s posts properly and have failed to see that she has homes for the kitties, and is having the mother neutered.

I really hope the OP isn’t too upset by how her lovely thread has been taken over, and that she posts some more pictures of the beautiful kitties.

Me too! And worse, since it was pre-coffee when I read it for the first time this morning, I didn’t find anything strange about that and only now that I came back to this thread and saw your comment I realise that I misread it 😂😂

Yes it is! 😆😆😆

you could say that for a lot of humans who “breed” when they absolutely should not.

well or for anyone who has a child, we do it because we want to. It’s not some altruistic act is it.

Much of this sounds a lot like "Eat your sprouts, children are starving in Africa".

Congratz on your new arrivals OP, and well done for doing all the right things for the right reasons - doing them to appease the haters wouldn't have worked, as we see.
How wonderful for your son to learn and be part of how life happens. I hope they bring you all, and their new-families-to-be great joy.

If you keep a female kitten will you let her have a litter as well? And then keep one of her babies??

I love kittens but letting moggies have a litter is irresponsible 🤷‍♀️ the world does not need 5 more cats.

So glad they are all well, and mum too!

Gorgeous! 😻
Long may it continue. 🩵🩵

We know the circumstances- shelters are overrun with unwanted cats and dogs.

The animals that are already here need looking after before people allow their pets to make more.

Having said that, it is true that rescues tend to have an awful lot of rules about adopting a cat. I looked into it a few years ago and the one local to me didn't allow anyone to adopt in December, didn't allow anyone with an under 5 to adopt, they would inspect your house for cat suitability, and several other things. In the end I gave up on it, and a few months later a local stray moved in of his own accord.

Me! 🐱

No.

Same. Plus my personal view just isn't relevant to the thread. Anyone with a problem could have just answered 'not me' to the thread title and moved the hell on.

How depressing to make your way through this thread and see that yet again people have to piss on someone else's parade for absolutely no reason. I wish someone would just take your keyboards away and you can go back to twitching your nets.

Congrats OP and I'm glad mama is doing well.

This thread has been an eye opener.
I genuinely didn’t realise that so many people see nothing wrong with breeding moggys on purpose. In fact I didn’t know that people bred moggys deliberately. I’m so naive.

I read this as you’d discussed it with your vet and the cat 😂🤦🏻‍♀️