At The Shelter, Mama Cat Is Overjoyed To Be Reunited With Her Kittens

Toodles, a stray cat that lived in a mobile home development, needed assistance after a fight with a dog. Mindy Brocato, a neighborhood resident and employee of Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control, rushed her to the shelter.

Toodles, on the other hand, was clearly a new mother when she arrived in early April.

Once Toodles was safe, the search for her family began.

“Toodles was lactating and clearly had recently had kittens,” Chris Weinstein, a board member of Friends of Anne Arundel County Animal Care & Control, told The Dodo.

“Mindy alerted her neighbors to be on the lookout for kittens. Five were found under a mobile home and Mindy rushed them to the shelter.”

The mom cat smelled the small kitten and meowed with delight when the first offspring was delicately put on Toodles’ bed by a shelter employee. The remainder of the kittens, who were around 2 weeks old at the time, climbed onto their mother and began nursing, sending out little squeaks.

The emotional reunion may be seen here:

Toodles and her family were taken to a foster home that night for more individualized care. Despite the fact that Toodles had reclaimed her kittens, something seemed to be upsetting her.

A sixth kitten was discovered weeping for her mother in the insulation of the same mobile home as the others were located a few days later. Brocato hurried the kitten, who was now named Percy, back to her family.

“The kitten dove right in for a snack,” says the narrator “On Facebook, the shelter expressed its dissatisfaction with the current situation. “And what about Toodles? The foster claims she’s’much more calm now that this NEW baby has come.’

Toodles is overjoyed to be reunited with her babies in a safe environment, and she is doing her best to be the greatest mother she can be. “Toodles, who is estimated to be around 2 years old, has been’such a good mama,’ according to her foster,” Weinstein continued. “She is a wonderful mother, and the kittens are doing well.”

Soon, the entire family will be spayed and neutered and microchipped and will go home with their adopters.

But the very first one to find a family was Toodles herself: “Toodles and Percy were the first to find a home — together,” Weinstein said. “That warms all our hearts, as the moms so often are the last to be adopted.”