Honey update

Here's how the Honey-cat story played out today:

In the wee hours of the a.m., I heard lots of scraping/rustling sounds from her cage.  On and on and on.  I got up out of bed, checked to see if she had a litter box obsession going on, but she'd been trying to claw a towel I'd draped on top of the cage into the cage with her.  So I put it in the cage with her (she already had a big, folded towel to sleep on.  Back to bed.  More scrape, scrape, scrape.  Me back out of bed.  This time she was after a folded towel on top of a box beside the cage.  I gave her that one, too.

When I got up with my alarm, it occured to me, maybe this is nesting behavior?  I googled it and restlessness was one of the signs of impending birth. 

I brought her to the vets, and instead of just dropping her off, waited till someone could check her out to make sure she could still be spayed.  The vet had a quick look at her, squeezed her nipples to see if milk was starting to come, and since it wasn't, announced that Honey would get a spay/termination.  This was also the vet's first opportunity to see how sweet and tame Honey is.

Some e-mail discussion between a few of us in the rescue group ensued once I got to work.  There's no foster space available for Honey.  The fretting ensued.  But, long story short, the animal hospital decided during the day that a) they're not going to spay her (I guess further examination proved she was farther along than the vet thought earlier), and b) they're going to keep her till her kittens are born, and c) they're going to foster mom and babies there at the clinic till they're weaned and all adopted out.  Honey as well as her kittens. 

I'm so happy this is all going to work out.  I go to that vet frequently with the trapped ferals to be fixed, so I'm hoping I'll get a chance to see Honey and her kittens once they're born.  And maybe get a photo to share with my peeps.