Post #2569639

Got dressed in jeans and a long sleeve shirt, gloves, partner tied a fabric scrap on my head to keep shit outta my hair. Took the flashlight and started crawling. First stop was 10 feet over to a vent that I knew wasn't connected cause I'd had to reset the pole it was braced by and it pulled right out. At the time, I couldn't see what it was supposed to be attached to. Now I could, and was somewhat concerned a kitten could have fallen into the pipe. Thankfully not. Got the vent back onto the pipe and moved on Crawled my way to the middle of the house, where the axles still reside. Mama moved away from me as I approached. Kitten louder now but still not sure where it is. Got to about where the wall between bathroom/2nd bedroom is and looked up into the rather large opening in the floor. Looking back at me was the tiny face of 3rd kitten. Adjusted my position into a kneel and reached out into the space, as the kitten started to retreat. Was close, but was able to just stretch enough to catch it by its little tail and pull it back, get a good grip on it. Twisted around and resumed a prone position, crawled my way back to the rear of the house, passed out the baby and then exited. Fun times. She took the 3rd in to reunite it with its sibs. I got to work fixing the skirting back in place/filling in holes so this wouldn't be a recurring thing. Left the panel on the side off so mama could leave. She still just stared at us, no intentions of coming near. Went in, no word from friend yet. Babies have settled down in the bin, on a towel. Bottle of warm water to cuddle with. We have 4 cats already, so babies must go, ASAP. They spent the night in the 2nd bdr. Happened to have kitten wet food, mixed it with a little egg yolk and got a couple of them to eat some. Friend got back to us next morning and picked them up a few hours later. Mama had left, so I closed up the crawlspace. She came back and hung around for a day or so, but that was it. She's already moved on, lol. She got free child care 🤣