You don’t have the time or money (it sounds like) to care for so many cats. You should not put them in an animal shelter (animal pound) though because it is likely that most of the cats would be unable to find homes and put to sleep. Take them to a no-kill animal shelter in your area or a rescue group. You can find one on Petfinder.com and they will help you. Be nice even if they give you a little speech about this, sadly they see more pets without homes everyday.

Make sure they are old enough to be away from their Mother and the rescue group can tell you that. But take them there soon. Kittens get adopted much faster then adults or adult looking cats. It’s good that you are keeping the Mom cat because she would have a hard time finding a home.

You can get more answers to this question if you post it in the animals/pets/cats area of yahooanswers rather then the teaching area.

It will be sad to say good-bye to the kittens but giving them to a rescue group would be the best way for them to find life-time homes with good people.

Momma cat will look for them for a few days then she will resign herself to the fact .. it is “cat nature” and natural.

I am glad you are having momma spayed it is the best thing to do.

Your feelings about the whole situation are natural and I know you will miss them too. But in your heart you know it is the right think to do. Good Luck

As to taking the kittens away from their mother – cats have been know to eat their young. They don’t have maternal feelings; they don’t have feelings at all. That is a human attribute.

…and don’t get bent out of shape. I like animals, I just don’t give them human attributes.

Good luck to you

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