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| If the kittens are trying to get into your house I would let them in and find them good homes. Please get your male cat neutered ASAP. There are way too many homeless cats out there. At our humane society alone there are over 300 adult cats that need homes. Most of them will be killed. This is just at one shelter! There are also tons of kittens which have a better chance.   
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| Ohhhhhhh, they are precious...yes if they want to go in your house, I would let them, they're soooooooo cute, I want the white one. I would feed the little ones and mama if I were you. They need all the protection/strength they can get since they are stray.
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| Let them in. Then look for a good family for them. If it's the first time it shouldn't be very difficult.
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Actually as weid as it sounds, my mom wants to keep em all. We're horse people and we were planning on getting a few barn cats and she figured since they're here why not just keep em? She and I always say "you can never have to many cats"  She said we'd spay all the females including their mom but just leave the males to save money.
Oh I also wanted to ask another question! I've always thought that the "fathers" of the kittens dont know that they're theirs... but my cat Merucury is always around the cats and those little kittens just jump all over him and he could care less which is strange cuz these are the only cats I've seen him with that he doesn't fight with since he's kinda cranky ane agressive... why is this? Is it just because he's attatched to the mother?
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| Male cats don't know their kittens, but they usually don't attack kittens. And many times they let kittens play with them. When you take a kitten to a house where there are cats, usually a male one adopts the kitten. The females rarely do that. And the litter can have more than one father because queens go with more than one male.
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Basically your unneutered male cat is not just being friendly to the mom and kittens - he's looking for another opportunity to mate with the mom again. She will become pregnant when nursing kittens which is not a good thing healthwise.
Males need to be neutered just as much as females need to be spayed. You risk both sexes of being prone to cancers at an early age; fighting between males (and more vet bills). Its far cheaper to get them done one or two at a time.
Check with your local shelter and see if there is a vet or place where you can get more of a discount if you bring in several cats at a time. We had barn cats and we took them in 2 at a time to get them done. Males first as they can still get females pregnant within 2 months of being neutered.
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| Firstly, I think it's great that your mom wants to keep the whole brood. When I was growing up out in the middle of the Arizona desert, we always had multiple cats, because they kept mice and rats away, and they killed poisonous snakes. But, you definitely need to get the male fixed. As Ocimom said, he's probably being so sociable because he's scoping out a new "conquest", and the mama can get pregnant while she is still nursing the little ones. Many animal shelters offer reduced prices for spaying and neutering animals, and again, they may also offer a "group discount." There are way too many orphan cats around because males and females aren't fixed.
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