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October 2014 Moms
MuffinMom14
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NBR: Free Kittens (Just Kidding)
MuffinMom14
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Found momma and four tiny babies tonight. GOT THEM ALL (the babies). They are going to the local no kill shelter to be socialized and homed. So far, we've TNRed 3 adults, found 2 kittens a home (they are together! ), 1 is in a foster home now being socialized, and these four will be going once we use them as "bait" to get their mom for TNR. We are still trying to get two other strays homed/TNRed if possible.
It's been the summer of CATS.
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Re: NBR: Free Kittens (Just Kidding)
TFMC 08.02.13 at 19+ weeks. Everyday I grieve for my little Olive.
Me- 36 DH- 40 ***TTC since 1/13
BFP #1 - 4/3/13 *** EDD 12/13/13 ***M/C 4/12/13 @5wks 1 day
BFP#2 - 1/29/14 ***EDD 10/11/14
It's a GIRL!!!
Anyways -so great what you're doing!!!
I always tell myself that kittens that cute will be easy to get adopted...so that I don't break down and become the crazy cat lady with millions of cats.
We got one cat (well, he came to our door) two months before I got pregnant with DS, and we found the other one when I was about 7 months pregnant. Cats are kind of a baby thing in this house too! But DH says no more...
...and now I'm sad thinking of the mama cat worrying about her babies. Pregnancy does this to my brain.
And I openly wept this morning. She stayed BESIDE them all night and all morning. But would NOT go in.
The bigger issue is that we need her spayed so this doesn't happen again, but the other issue is, obviously, she needs to be with those kittens. They are too young to be away from her. They are borderline, and someone can feed them, and they will life, but. It's not the best case scenario.
And I openly wept this morning. She stayed BESIDE them all night and all morning. But would NOT go in.
The bigger issue is that we need her spayed so this doesn't happen again, but the other issue is, obviously, she needs to be with those kittens. They are too young to be away from her. They are borderline, and someone can feed them, and they will life, but. It's not the best case scenario.
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((Hugs)) When we found our orange kitty (see randoms thread for pic), he was very very young, and I was pregnant with DS so super hormonal. I saw him at the garbage dump and used a piece of white bread torn up and tossed to him to get close enough to snatch him. The dump manager guy said that someone had trapped the mom and babies but this one was left behind. I couldn't believe he didn't care!!
Took him to the vet and they said he was 4-6 weeks old, so not really ready to wean. We gave him special high-calorie food and he would sleep in our other cat's faux sheep's wool bed, pawing at it and purring like it was his mama. That made me SOB because I was like "this baby NEEDS his mama!" Poor DH...
As soon as our two cats really met, the older gray cat sort of became mom to the orange one. They were inseparable, and the gray one would clean him and snuggle him. It all worked out fine, and they're super happy best friends.
Anyway, long story short, I've cried over kittens and their mamas and the unfairness of it all, but they do ok.
TEARS.