Cages to keep mother cats and kittens

[Yellowroses]

Hi everyone I do fostering for local area shelters. Yesterday I picked up Ruby a year old cat who is expecting in two weeks and Carrot who is expecting in four weeks. I have two cats of my own I was wondering if I should use a three story cage to keep the mamas and babies isolated at night from cats Nigel and Tommy. Right now I have Tommy and Nigel sleeping in my garage to keep them isolated from the mamas. I'm going in the next few days to look at cages at some pet stores. Do you think it fine to keep the mamas and babies in cages at night to keep them safe from my cats>?

[melissaranks]

I would keep them isolated all the time. Maybe in a room instead of a cage (you don't want the kittens to climb up and then accidentally fall onto the hard cage bottom). Do you have a spare bedroom you could keep them in? What are you going to do with the kittens? Is the Humane Society going to take them for you when they are old enough? The Humane Society out here won't adopt out pregnant animals. They put them in foster homes until the babies are born and old enought to be away from the mommas and then everybody is spayed/neutered and back to the humane society they go.