Here we go again **Sigh**

Well,I have aquired three kittens.They don't even have their eyes open yet.They were dumped off at my aunt's store out in the country.

They are soooo tiny and sooooo cute.Darn it.LOL.I know that if I bottle feed these babies that I won't get rid of them.I am hoping one of the other girls in my class will take them so I won't get so attached to them.I don't have a problem with bottle raising puppies and letting them go,it's these darn little kittens that I have a problem letting go.LOL.
Max and Ruby were bottle fed too,and guess where they are?HERE.Hehe


My supposed(think that darn keep em' fairy got me) to be foster cat is hovering over them like they are her babies.She is trying to let them nurse her,but she doesn't have any milk to give,but dang if she ain't trying.She is cleaning them and laying with them.

I know I probably shouldn't let them around each other,but I am hoping she will help me in keeping them clean,warm,and help them with using the bathroom.She got one in her mouth while ago and tried to carry it off somewhere and I got it and told her no she couldn't take the baby off.LOL.

Anyway,just wanted to share the news and say that I hate stupid people that dump off little babies that can't even fend for themselves.

Keep your fingers crossed for these little guys.

Oh yeah.There is one girl and two boys.

Aww, see I am the total opposite, I could never foster a cat/kitten over the age of..3-4 months, but if I have the baby orphaned kitties I never want to keep them, I dunno why. Thats why I would like to find a shelter that would let me specialize in fostering the orphans that need to be bottle fed. I have done it before, it wasn't easy, but I enjoyed it a lot (even without sleep, lol)

I hate it when people drop off babies like that as well, but not everyone is like us (to bad huh?) I haven't delt with puppies before so I can't say how I would do with that.

We want pics!! What are you going to name them??

I can relate to the desire to keep the bottle fed babies. 6 of mine started out that way (3 for less than a week to force wean them, 1 for 3 weeks and 2 for 5 weeks). But of the younger ones, I somehow managed to adopt out 4 of them. Of course 2 went to dear friends and I can see them grow up.

I feel for your problem!

sorry double post

I will take pics,but will have to wait until I get the disc back from Wal-Mart cause we lost the USB cable for the digital camera.

I am going to try NOT to name them.LOL.May sound weird,but if I name them I will feel closer to them,but I'm sure when I take them to school everyone will name them though.LOL.


My foster cat will NOT leave them alone.I had them in a box in the living room and she keeps taking them to my bedroom.
I figured she just wanted some privacy,so I fixed them a bed in my son's room(he is with my mom),but she won't leave them in there either.She insists they stay in my room.

She has been cleaning them really good and stimulating their bottoms,so I hope she keeps it up and I won't have to worry about those things,gonna be hard enough trying to keep them fed.
You can definately tell she has had her share of litters of kittens.
MY females are hissing or running from them.LOL.

I will be in here feeding them and she will come in here and try to take them from me.LOL.


Oh how I dread the middle of the night feedings.LOL.

Whenever our rescue group finds orphans, we try to find a surrogate mom for them. Even though your foster isn't producing milk, she is teaching them a lot of "cat" behavior and manners. I would encourage you to let her take care of them. And if she moves them to a place where she is comfortable (within reason), let her! Mom cats do best at taking care of their young when they feel secure themselves.

Cats can be stimulated to produce milk even if they haven't had a recent litter. I have no idea how long this takes, or if it is nutricinal enough for them. Perhaps do some digging at your school (and let us know what you find out!)?

Way to go, and yes, those dreaded middle of the night feedings!

Same with me. I would never ever be able to 'get rid' of the poor thing even if I fed it normal cat food. Good luck.. because I don't know what you should do!

This is interesting. See, my dear husband gets VERRRY attached to foster kittens and cats. I, on the other hand, just LOVE placing them in great permanent homes. I guess I feel that a cat really "blooms" when it has its own home, and I also get the biggest charge out of getting stories about "our" cats in their new homes. It's awful quiet right at first when one goes off to its new life. But (BLUSH!) in a month or so, we are just as intent on the next kitten or cat, and sometimes I have to get out the pictures to remember what Chloe or Buddy looked like. (I know, that's ALMOST sacrilege here to say, isn't it? ). Maybe if there were not SO many cats in need around our area, I'd see the fostering thing differently. But I think partly, it's also my personality. I like people a lot, so I like to see them learning about a new member of the family!

Originally posted by Momofmany
Whenever our rescue group finds orphans, we try to find a surrogate mom for them. Even though your foster isn't producing milk, she is teaching them a lot of "cat" behavior and manners. I would encourage you to let her take care of them. And if she moves them to a place where she is comfortable (within reason), let her! Mom cats do best at taking care of their young when they feel secure themselves.

Cats can be stimulated to produce milk even if they haven't had a recent litter. I have no idea how long this takes, or if it is nutricinal enough for them. Perhaps do some digging at your school (and let us know what you find out!)?

Way to go, and yes, those dreaded middle of the night feedings!

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Yeah I am planning on asking tomorrow at school about the milk thing.
She is spayed now,but I don't know if that would matter or not.

I did read an article by a vet college on the internet while ago that talked about a cat that produced milk for a kitten even though she was spayed,but it said that the cat didn't produce near as much as a normal "mother" cat would.

So even if my foster did produce milk,she probably wouldn't have enough to feed them good enough.
So,I guess I will have to stick to the bottle feeding,and she can stick to the other parts of it.

I am really glad she is here to help me,if she would just quit dragging them all over the house.LOL.
I wouldn't care where she put them,but I have too many other cats for her to just put them anywhere.She tried to put them up in the boxsprings,which wouldn't be good cause that is where some of the cats sleep and they wouldn't like that too good.

I really have to keep an eye on her with them because she will get them out of their box and put them in the floor and poor Ruby goes nuts.LOL.She is trying to play with them and gets on top of them and bats them around,so I have to be very careful on keeping an eye on them.

Anyway just wanted to let everyone know that the kittens are still doing fine...eating like little pigs.It is been a VERY long time since I have even been around kittens this little.LOL.Max and Ruby were tiny,but at least they had their eyes open(I think they were around 2-3 weeks old when I got them).

It is just going to be so hard getting rid of them.I am going to be sooooo picky about who gets them.

BTW.Just wanted to add that they will NOT be going into their new homes until they are fixed.Even if I don't have the money to get it done,I am going to arrange it with whoever adopts them that they can pick up their new baby at the vet's office AFTER the surgery.At least there is one vet around here that will do early s/n,I would really be in trouble if I had to keep them until they were 4-6 months old.LOL.

Originally posted by Meowzer-x-
Same with me. I would never ever be able to 'get rid' of the poor thing even if I fed it normal cat food. Good luck.. because I don't know what you should do!

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LOL.I have problems even if I feed them normal cat food too.LOL.Hence the "Supposed to be foster" comment in the first post.LOL.

Originally posted by linda_of_pgff
This is interesting. See, my dear husband gets VERRRY attached to foster kittens and cats. I, on the other hand, just LOVE placing them in great permanent homes. I guess I feel that a cat really "blooms" when it has its own home, and I also get the biggest charge out of getting stories about "our" cats in their new homes. It's awful quiet right at first when one goes off to its new life. But (BLUSH!) in a month or so, we are just as intent on the next kitten or cat, and sometimes I have to get out the pictures to remember what Chloe or Buddy looked like. (I know, that's ALMOST sacrilege here to say, isn't it? ). Maybe if there were not SO many cats in need around our area, I'd see the fostering thing differently. But I think partly, it's also my personality. I like people a lot, so I like to see them learning about a new member of the family!

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It's really good that you are able to deal with the placing of the kittens/cats.
If I could do that then I would foster all the time,but I shy away from fostering kitties,because I know I won't want to give them up.And if everyone was like me there wouldn't be anyone to foster the little guys.

I have placed a few cats though.
The latest one was a few weeks ago.
A stray male young cat came here.He was skinny,had a URI,had worms,had earmites,and of course was not neutered.
I took him to school to get him taken care of and one of the girls just loved him and I told her he was up for adoption and she was like "Really??I want him" So she took him home with her and I don't worry about him,because I know she will take very good care of him.

But more cats end up staying here than they do leaving,so I try not to bring them in.LOL.

Originally posted by chixyb
Aww, see I am the total opposite, I could never foster a cat/kitten over the age of..3-4 months, but if I have the baby orphaned kitties I never want to keep them, I dunno why. Thats why I would like to find a shelter that would let me specialize in fostering the orphans that need to be bottle fed. I have done it before, it wasn't easy, but I enjoyed it a lot (even without sleep, lol)

I hate it when people drop off babies like that as well, but not everyone is like us (to bad huh?) I haven't delt with puppies before so I can't say how I would do with that.

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Too bad you don't live near me.I would let you foster these little guys until they were weaned...maybe I wouldn't get so attached to them then.

Yeah the poor little things were just laying out by my aunt's store and I know everyone that walked by there heard them crying,but no one offered to take them.
I am going to try to get a letter to the editor written soon.I have a few things I would like to say to the scum that set these babies off.I will be sure and post the letter on the store door as well,so I'm sure they will see it.