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****warning, very tragic story*****
This is a very tragic story, some of you may find it hard to deal with. I myself am devistated.
We took the care of a queen who was known to us, but was pregnant. Owners dumped responsibility of the queen when she got pregnant. However queen was already comming to my house for a while and so had adopted us as a second home. Up to this poitn we thought she was spayed as was vaccinated by her owners and well looked after.
The queen had her kittens 2 weeks ago, i helped her deliver. I spent all my time looking after both queen and her 3 kittens.
I had to go in to hostpital last weekend, So the care of the queen and my disabled daughter was taken over by my husband.
No problems all was well, queen and kittens where thriving. Kittens had met all the right milestones , eyes where open all 3 where healthy and plump. The queen was a very, very good mother. Hardly left them, produced loads of milk, kept them warm. I was even placing heat pads in for the kittens and checking them all the time.
On saturday i received a call from a distraught husband, my disabled daughter (she is 5 but has the mentall age of a 15 months old). Had managed to escape out of her bedroom in the early hours of the morning (somethign she had never done). She entered the bathroom where the kittens and queen where nesting in a large open , low cupboard.
My daughter has an infatuation with water, and ran the sink till it was overflowing. Then she snatched the kittens off the queen while she was nursing, and put them in the water.
Husband was awoken to the sound of gushing water. that had come throught the cealing. Ran to the bathroom to find the 3 kittens drown in the sink.
As you can imagine this is very , very hard to deal with.
Everythign was tried to revive the kittens (who where onyl 2 weeks old). But they where gone.
The queen saw the whole horror unfold.
Husband drained the sink, and placed the dead kittens on a towl but still up high in the sink away from the queen.
When he returned miniuts later. The queen had removed her dead kittens and hid them in a draw, and was tryign to get them to suckle.
Husband gently removed the kittens from the queen and nuried them in the garden.
The queen keeps callign for the kittens, is full of milk, and is just confused.
The only consulation is that the queen and i had a good bond, and she still trusts me, and is comign to me for comfort.
I am trying my best, to hold it together its very hard.
Even though i was not even here when it happened i feel to blame so badly.
We had always been very carefull never to allow access to the kittens from my daughter. We had tried so very hard to give these kittens a chance. We had even named them and had planned to keep all 3, getting them nutered and vaccinated.
Where do we go from here, queen is booked in to be spayed once her milk dries up (vets wont touch her before hand)
But she is very full of milk today, and i am concerned that she may be come ill from this.
She is bright and alert, washing loads and still eating and toileting.
However the heartbreaker is i sat with her whiel she gave birth, i was there with her the whoel way, she trusted me with the kittens, letting me weight them, check them, handle them ligthly.
Now she keeps comign to me crying, obviosuly thinkign i have the kittens somewhere. (i only wish that was true).
How long will it take the queen to get over the loss?
I understand instinct is makign her search for her babies, that as a good mother this is somethign ingrained in her.
How the hell can you tell a cat her young have died?
She did she the bodies, but still tired to nurse them . Should i have left her with the young for her to realise they where dead?
Obviously they where in a pretty bad way after the accident, and it was just very ipsetting.
Please, please if anyoen has any help. advice on hwo to deal with this....
I knwo this is horrible, and some of you may choose not to reply due to the fact that you may feel i am a murderer, that this is my fault. I had a duty of care. I understand this..
This is a very tragic story, some of you may find it hard to deal with. I myself am devistated.
We took the care of a queen who was known to us, but was pregnant. Owners dumped responsibility of the queen when she got pregnant. However queen was already comming to my house for a while and so had adopted us as a second home. Up to this poitn we thought she was spayed as was vaccinated by her owners and well looked after.
The queen had her kittens 2 weeks ago, i helped her deliver. I spent all my time looking after both queen and her 3 kittens.
I had to go in to hostpital last weekend, So the care of the queen and my disabled daughter was taken over by my husband.
No problems all was well, queen and kittens where thriving. Kittens had met all the right milestones , eyes where open all 3 where healthy and plump. The queen was a very, very good mother. Hardly left them, produced loads of milk, kept them warm. I was even placing heat pads in for the kittens and checking them all the time.
On saturday i received a call from a distraught husband, my disabled daughter (she is 5 but has the mentall age of a 15 months old). Had managed to escape out of her bedroom in the early hours of the morning (somethign she had never done). She entered the bathroom where the kittens and queen where nesting in a large open , low cupboard.
My daughter has an infatuation with water, and ran the sink till it was overflowing. Then she snatched the kittens off the queen while she was nursing, and put them in the water.
Husband was awoken to the sound of gushing water. that had come throught the cealing. Ran to the bathroom to find the 3 kittens drown in the sink.
As you can imagine this is very , very hard to deal with.
Everythign was tried to revive the kittens (who where onyl 2 weeks old). But they where gone.
The queen saw the whole horror unfold.
Husband drained the sink, and placed the dead kittens on a towl but still up high in the sink away from the queen.
When he returned miniuts later. The queen had removed her dead kittens and hid them in a draw, and was tryign to get them to suckle.
Husband gently removed the kittens from the queen and nuried them in the garden.
The queen keeps callign for the kittens, is full of milk, and is just confused.
The only consulation is that the queen and i had a good bond, and she still trusts me, and is comign to me for comfort.
I am trying my best, to hold it together its very hard.
Even though i was not even here when it happened i feel to blame so badly.
We had always been very carefull never to allow access to the kittens from my daughter. We had tried so very hard to give these kittens a chance. We had even named them and had planned to keep all 3, getting them nutered and vaccinated.
Where do we go from here, queen is booked in to be spayed once her milk dries up (vets wont touch her before hand)
But she is very full of milk today, and i am concerned that she may be come ill from this.
She is bright and alert, washing loads and still eating and toileting.
However the heartbreaker is i sat with her whiel she gave birth, i was there with her the whoel way, she trusted me with the kittens, letting me weight them, check them, handle them ligthly.
Now she keeps comign to me crying, obviosuly thinkign i have the kittens somewhere. (i only wish that was true).
How long will it take the queen to get over the loss?
I understand instinct is makign her search for her babies, that as a good mother this is somethign ingrained in her.
How the hell can you tell a cat her young have died?
She did she the bodies, but still tired to nurse them . Should i have left her with the young for her to realise they where dead?
Obviously they where in a pretty bad way after the accident, and it was just very ipsetting.
Please, please if anyoen has any help. advice on hwo to deal with this....
I knwo this is horrible, and some of you may choose not to reply due to the fact that you may feel i am a murderer, that this is my fault. I had a duty of care. I understand this..
