Calling all Bottle Babies!!!

Most of you know the story about how I found Sui when she was only 2 days old and that she is a bottle baby. Who else has "bottle babies"?? Post their pics here, I'd love to see them!






Here's Sui when she was a bit younger: (my husband is in quite a few, he LOVES Sui

Look at her now!!!!! 8 months old!!!

What an excellent job you have both done on raising such a lovely, healthy cat! Well done and can't wait to see other ppl's pics in this thread

Originally Posted by ugaimes

Oh Kelly, my heart just melts looking at little Sui!

She is truly a miracle baby- you did such a wonderful job raising her on the bottle (obviously, since she's the resident eating machine!).

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Aw, thanks Amy! It was scary, I didn't really know how to take care of an unweaned kitten. I couldn't get the animal shelter or any local vets to do more than just give me vague advice

Shy did a lot of researching before I even got home with her

. I spent a lot of nights crying and worrying about that helpless little baby I found. It was so precious to watch her grow and learn

. Now, she's the terror of the household

. Raising her has been one of the most rewarding, precious experiences of my life.

You did a great job, Kelly. She's turned out to be a gorgeous kitty full of purrsonality!

Sui is absolutely beautiful, Kelly. You've done a wonderful job of caring for her!

awww, thanks Jenn, Gilly, and eilcon! It's definitely been a labor of love! I applaud all the ladies who care for entire litters of bottle babies at a time, it's a big job.

Ever so sweet!! And, Kelly, what a lovely girl you have now! You did a splendid job!

Wow! I have such admiration for those of you that can successfully raise a wonderful cat from a helpless orphan.

Sui is such a lovley girl, all grown up.

My baby pictures are at home, but here are some adult pics of my bottle feds:

Elwood (orphaned at 10 days, adopted out to friends):




Jake (brother of Elwood and adopted out to same friend):



Muddy and Koko (live with me, siblings of Jake and Elwood):



Scarlett (orphaned at about 20 days old and lives with me as "Queen". I adopted out her 2 siblings but don't have any current pictures of them):



I'll see if I can get some baby pictures out to photobucket tonight.

I don't have any pics of my little man, Tigs when he was a baby, but he was about the size of Sui in those first pics......but look at him now!

Gorgeous little man!

Amy, I LOVE that pic of Jake -- that is soooo funny! They're all sweet, though.

Found one of the babies!

Here is (left to right) Muddy, Elwood, Koko and Jake at 11 days old (the day after we rescued them). They were quite the handful! Elwood is a polydactyl and you can already see what looks like deformed front paws in this pic.



We didn't have a digital camera when we rescued Scarlett and her siblings so I don't have any pictures of them real young. For some stupid reason we didn't take pics of them at the time.

Oh you guys.....I love the pics!!!

Ally (black&white) & Bob (tabby) -- both born premature and bottlefed from birth (within hours). I brought them in from a feral colony outside. Thank God, both are now healthy & bouncy kittens.

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