Hi Allegra,
Forgive my ignorance but you are in Iraq? Where in Iraq? Good luck with the kitty mom. I am a veterinary technician in the great state of Tennessee. I highly recommend you having her spayed as soon as she has recovered from having kittens. She'll come back into heat before she is even finished nursing/weaning the babies and then you'll have more kittens.... (I see an analogy to terrorist here somewhere.....)
Thank you for serving our country. I have a nephew in Arizona that is going to be deployed in September to Qatar. He'll be guarding prisoners or something like that.
Good luck with the kitties.
Murrie
Yes, I'm in Baghdad. Right in the middle of it.
Thank you for your kind comments. I'm a civilian contractor. I work in support of our troops - they do the hard stuff.
I'm not sure how modern the vetinary medicine is here but I'm sure it's nothing like what we have back home. Our security guys are just supposed to take our kitty to them when the kittens are about seven weeks old.
We're actually looking forward to having kittens to play with. Of course, the mother cat is also very playful. We have a little putting green on our compound and she leaps in the air chasing after the balls when people are putting.