Cat lovers save 5 kittens from the cold, accepting a Christmas gift from the CDS by helping a local pregnant stray raise her supermeowdel litter: 'We saw them take their first wobbly steps'

When you're a cat lover, one thing can lead to another pretty quickly. One moment you're befriending a local stray black cat, admiring her shimmering fur and leaving out a few kibbles every day, and the next thing you realize, you're a kitten midwife. 

A cat-loving couple experienced this zero-to-family moment when the harsh Canadian winter chill started to rise. 

Knowing that the year's end would only become more frigid and unforgiving, they worried about the lady kitty outside, whom they had become accustomed to feeding. Alas, the black cat mama showed up looking a little plumpier than usual, signaling to her favorite humans that she was ready to come inside… And fast! 

As it turns out, she had a litter of kittens on the way and needed the human's help and shelter to save them. Lucky for this black cat, she came to the right place, burrowing deeper into the hearts of a couple of folks who loved her kittens before they were ever even born.