Kittens

A litter of four kittens has been milling around our yard today. The one in the image above is not as scared of me and always kind of gets left behind the other three when they do stuff. I am stupid and left them some soy milk (the organic infant formula that Sarah never liked—she prefers the organic adult formula) and gave them a little bit of tuna. They are so tiny and frail-looking and too cute. Maybe it's because I'm a mother but I couldn't reason with myself to not leave them a little something.

I've told Amelie about them, wondering what the protocol for finding a litter of kittens is in Korea. There isn't one as far as I can tell. There have always been two adult cats (one believed to be male and one believed to be female, both orange) that we have seen taking a nap on our porch from time to time (the two adults are never seen together though).

I saw the male one time today and a kitten followed him across our porch but as I type this I hear them mewing in our yard.

I've never had a kitten before and how do I know if I'm too late to socialize one? Do I have to take care of all of them until a certain age and then take the other three to the vet if no one wants to adopt them? Or do I just stop giving them food and hope they go away/that their mother will still take care of them? Would the cat freak out whenever it saw her (probably) mother or father taking a nap on the porch outside (if I adopted a cat, I'd have to make it indoor-only)?

For the record, I know it's totally unreasonable to adopt a stray cat but they are here in our yard and I can't stop watching them. I need to make a decision!

I'll get caught up on the blog later; we're having power-supply issues and I don't think I have much time to update on all of the fun stuff we've been doing this week with my current battery supply.