I need advice quickly!

About a week and a half ago my husband and I found a kitten abandoned at a car wash in the middle of a big city in the blazing hot sun. He was doing great after we brought him home, so about a week after we found him we left him in the care of our neighbor while we went to tour my husband's flight school program for one day. She had him for one night and the next morning he was sluggish, cold, and had diarrhea.  Because we were out of town, and the kitten was sick, she took him to an animal shelter because she had no money to pay for a vet. 

According to what I was told by my neighbor, they told her he had feline leukemia and needed to be put to sleep later that night (she called us immediately but didn't tell us that she was planning on surrendering him). She surrendered our kitten without telling us to the shelter because they had made him seem like a lost cause. 

All of this happened on Monday. Today I went in to see him and try to get all of this straightened out (I tried yesterday and they were closed), and the lady would not give me any information about him, renamed him and said that he is doing great and is with other kittens his size in foster care. Why is he in foster care with other kittens his age if he has feline leukemia?!?!? She then proceeded to tell me that I could not afford the kitten's care and that I had no business possessing a kitten that small. Excuse me? She doesn't know me. How dare she make those assumptions. He was obviously too young to be away from his mother (6 1/2 to 7 weeks) but by no means did I steal him from his mom. 

What do I do to get my kitten back? I feel sick.  

scottifredrix said:

 
About a week and a half ago my husband and I found a kitten abandoned at a car wash in the middle of a big city in the blazing hot sun. He was doing great after we brought him home, so about a week after we found him we left him in the care of our neighbor while we went to tour my husband's flight school program for one day. She had him for one night and the next morning he was sluggish, cold, and had diarrhea.  Because we were out of town, and the kitten was sick, she took him to an animal shelter because she had no money to pay for a vet. 

According to what I was told by my neighbor, they told her he had feline leukemia and needed to be put to sleep later that night (she called us immediately but didn't tell us that she was planning on surrendering him). She surrendered our kitten without telling us to the shelter because they had made him seem like a lost cause. 

All of this happened on Monday. Today I went in to see him and try to get all of this straightened out (I tried yesterday and they were closed), and the lady would not give me any information about him, renamed him and said that he is doing great and is with other kittens his size in foster care. Why is he in foster care with other kittens his age if he has feline leukemia?!?!? She then proceeded to tell me that I could not afford the kitten's care and that I had no business possessing a kitten that small. Excuse me? She doesn't know me. How dare she make those assumptions. He was obviously too young to be away from his mother (6 1/2 to 7 weeks) but by no means did I steal him from his mom. 

What do I do to get my kitten back? I feel sick.  

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I think the easiest is you simply apply to adopt him with his new name, when he becomes of suitable age to be adopted.  They are probably just happy to having acceptable adoption home waiting...   You will of course pay their usual fees, but it will be hardly more than the vet cost.  They will possibly also want him to have a pal, so they will perhaps suggest you to adopt two of their protegées, him and some of his dear friends he is most often cuddling with.  Although if you adopt two, you will usually get a discount.

Observe, adopting a kitten from a shelter is almost as good a deed as rescuing it from dire danger on the street.  A life is saved both ways, even if adopting from a shelter is easier and not so glorious in the same way as being a real rescuer.

I know from other threads they are verry reluctant to let out cats once submitted/surrended to them.  By obvious reasons.  Quite a few would probably misuse it, it they were easy to get back...

The question is of course, if he is really the one you rescued once.  My guess is he was pts being so sick - Felv diagnose or not.  And the one you are looking at is another, although a very similiar.

Although, it he didnt had felv, just some more harmless, which went over by itself / tx to their vet care, after a day or two - they would probably rename him yes, and not let you get him easily back.  That is true and surely what they usually do as a normal routine.

Apparently this shelter does has some vet care, and also, helps and fosters small kittens.  Many shelters do not, so in many shelters, surrounding a small kitten to them is essentially a way for a humanly done pts.