More Cats

Well - for the past month we have had a male cat, very light tiger stripe, that's been hanging around and eating our free food that we put out.  He's wild but not totally scared.  We haven't been able to get anywhere near him.  Anyway, a couple of days ago I went out and low and behold here he is with three little kittens tagging along.  They're totally wild and absolutely starved.  You could see their back bones and ribs.  So - here we go again.  This is totally weird.  I've never seen a male cat taking care of kittens.  Unless this is a really young male, they usually kill off the kittens to force the female back into heat.  We called the vet and she agreed - it's strange.  But she says if we'll tame them down - she'll take them in and see that they have good homes.  I'll post pictures as soon as I get some.  It's really funny watching this male cat groom and clean these kittens.  It looks like two males (one black and white and a grey tabby) and a female (tortie).  The adult male, we call him tigger, places himself between us and the kittens anytime we go out on the porch and he pushes and herds them away from us whenever they roam too close.  I've never seen anything like it.  More later.........