I have a rabbit cage in my house, which I use as a recovery cage for sick cats and those that need time to recouperate following neutering. I had the brilliant idea of rehousing the kittens - and I frankly thought their mom was either gone for good or didn't care much. One of the kittens was so weak that it just lay where I put it, without moving. I figured it was dying.

The three kittens in the rabbid cage in my house

I was wrong about the mom. She was at the rabbit cage within the hour and she was livid. She grabbed one kitten by the ear and dragged it back to the shed. I returned the other two also, making sure to keep my distance from the livid molly.

The feral molly is livid

The kitten being dragged back to the shed