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after two nights with the cat i rose determined to return to where i'd found her. i owed it to myself, her and her kittens, if it wasn't too late, to see what i could find out. i arranged my day so that i might pass by the intersection again, about 45 minutes from home. i did my best to assure...

shawowsR, thank you for your good advice. i agree with all you say. i regret i cannot deliver a happily-ever-after ending to the story, as you will see. shadowk, your leash idea is clever and very good. although, the only time i tried a cat on a leash (with a harness) it easily escaped the...

i considered names for her and rachel came to mind.  "A voice is heard in Ramah," says a sentence i'd read in the book of matthew,  "weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." don't name her that it's too sad, said my...

shadowsR, thanks for your thoughts. i am surprised how strongly you feel it was the right thing, but i admire your decisiveness.  i could use some of what you've got. and i appreciate your advocacy for this dear girl  regarding medical care. shadowk2001, your suggestion -- releasing her and...

once home i made provisions for her upstairs in quarantine -- water, dry food and litter -- and spent the night with her there. she was not shy about food but otherwise withdrew to a nook or cranny. not scared, calm but understandably wary. when once i needed to move her i scruffed and lifted...

such relief your words brought me, shadows, i can't describe. i think i exhaled for the first time in days. flynnie thank you for understanding what a difficult choice it was norachan, regarding the name ... well, stay tuned.  thank you all.

i was too far from home to contemplate any but the most basic decision: let the cat go -- forever -- or keep it. could you ever justify taking a mother cat from its kittens? and almost certainly be condemning the kittens to death? but wasn't the mother herself near death? and wouldn't...