My alley cat is in labor! She has been spending a lot more time in the shop lately. Since the weather has been nice I've been keeping the doors open. She usually just visits, and then goes back out to her nest in the tree behind the shop, but this last week she has been very clingy. Finally this afternoon she was being even more affectionate and demanding so I fixed up the downstairs bathroom for her. She has been staying in there every once in awhile with Stripey kitty. I kept them both in there several nights last week when people were filming a movie on the square. Tonight when I took Twiggy for her walk Stripey kitty followed us around, and wanted to come in, but I thought it would be best for the "Mommy to be" to be left alone. Every time Witchie Poo hears the critters upstairs she starts growling...I have been reading everything I can find about cats in labor. Thank God for the Internet! I have never been present during a delivery of any creature except some chicks, but that's sooo different. This will be Witchie Poo's first litter, and I didn't even think she was prego! I was fixing to take her to the vet for worms...hmmmm. She started having a mucus discharge around 6:00 this evening, and so far everything I have read says that she should deliver within 24 hours of that. So far I have not gotten a lot of sleep...I am so tired, but very excited! So are the other animals they all know something big is happening! Twiggy is so wound up, you would think she was the one having the babies!