Apparently, she adopted a litter another cat abandoned. I guess her milk came in before her babies were born, and she took on the first 5. Then her 4 were born a week later. Her elderly owner was just put in a nursing home, and the family dropped the poor girl and the babies at the county...
I am happy to hear you get more time with the babies!
I have fostered kittens since 2001. (And just picked up a litter of NINE babies today!) Hard as it is to say goodbye, knowing that they are going to carefully-screened homes makes it so much easier to deal with. I've found that some of the...