A COLWYN Bay theatre welcomed the theatrical debut of a very different kind of mews-ician when new-born kittens were discovered.
Workmen refurbishing Theatr Colwyn came across a cardboard box on the stage of the Victorian venue where they found four kittens who were just an hour old.
Their mother, a stray, sought sanctuary in the building to give birth, but was in a distressed state and ran away and hid.
Theatre staff called in Cats Protection, whose volunteers Janet and Ray Gardener successfully managed to catch the mum, who was terribly thin and undernourished.
Sadly, the fourth kitten died.
The mother cat, named Zeta, and the kittens - a black coloured male called Novello, a black coloured female called Shirley and a tortoiseshell female called Bassey - all suffered ill health in the early weeks.
But now the kittens are healthy and will soon to be on their way to a new home.
Homing officer with Colwyn and District Cats Protection, Janet Gardener, said: “The kittens had infection in their right eye which was treated over a period of weeks and they have now made a full recovery.
“Zeta was so undernourished that on two different occasions she was unable to produce enough milk to feed them, so [my husband] Ray and I took turns to bottle feed them, every two hours, until she made a full recovery.
“The great news is that the kittens have now been reserved and will be adopted by a lovely family from Rhos on Sea, after their first vaccination.”
Mum Zeta will have to wait a little longer until she is put up for adoption, but Janet doesn’t think it will be long before the beautiful looking cat has a new home too.
Phil Batty, theatre manager, joked: “I never thought our first production at Theatr Colwyn would be Cats! Seriously though, we are all very happy to hear this lovely news that the kittens are so well now and on their way to a new home.
“So many of the burly builders working at Theatr Colwyn on the day they were found went all soppy over them, concerned about their well-being.”