Do you ever wonder about your kitten's life before you met?

Lately, I've been wondering what Zissou's life was like for her first two and a half months. She was definitely born wild, and I just wonder about the kind of stuff she saw. She was also real sick when we got her (every parasite imaginable). Another cat I lived with was stray for years... did he sire a few litters? (I'm sure). Where did they hang out? Does Z miss her brothers and sisters?

I just wonder about these things sometimes when I look at her. I'll never know, I guess. Does anybody else think about their cats' wild child days?

Lucky for me I know about everyday of my precious kitties lives, but how interesting it would be to know everything about before you knew them

My cats Elmo, Bridget, Lonestar and the kitten (9 weeks old) have been with me everyday of their lives and Sophie lived with my Nana until 10 weeks old.

I wonder about all 3 of them. We got Willow from a BYB and from the way she acts now, I wonder if she got any human contact in her first 6 weeks. With Buffy, she was orphaned at 4 weeks and was a stray with her mom and litter before then, so it's pretty obvious what her life was like. Mostly I wonder about Molly, who I found a few months ago at 4-5 months old. She's so friendly and docile that she has to have been owned by a loving family, but we found her with shorn whiskers and nobody has called us to claim her. Was she happy, or has she been a stray all this time and it's just a coincidence that she's so friendly? And did teens (she was found by 2 juniour high schools) shave off her whiskers? I'll never know.

I actually only wonder about Gus and Chloe, because well, Chloe was a stray and Gus, I got him from somebody that had an ad up for him and another cat that they had found(they said looked like someone had tried to drown them) and these ppl saved them! I know where Sherman came from(good home) and Gracie as well, and Callie and Lucy are her kittens so I know they are from a good home And Abby and Lily also came from a really good home!!

I often wonder about Poptart and Gorditos past. Sicne they were found in the middle of no-where.. almsot run over by a lawn mower.. and they were only 4 weeks old. I wonder if they were feral, and wandered from the nest.. or if mum was moving them to a new nest and left them behind.. (poptart was deathly ill) There was also a sister that didn't amke it.. she died a few days after I got her.

Nacho and Orion were house cats though... and then were taken to a petstore when they were 7 weeks old.. but I still wonder aobut them.. what color their mum was, and which was born first and such like that.

oh yes. I think Samuel had a family that cared for him very much, but who let him outside. They found him wandering around a construction site, so I think he simply got lost and couldnt find his way home. He just loves people.

I wonder about the new kitty.. she had distemper and i wonder if she wasn't surrendered because her previous owners couldnt pay for the treatment she would need. However, she had it when she was very young, so maybe she was born to a feral mother and captured later? I don't know.

I too wonder about Layla's past. Was she a frisky kitten? What's her brother like? And does she ever think about her old life?

Sometimes at feeding time, I wonder if Pudge remembers that I've been feeding her twice a day every day for two years now. We got har as a semi-feral, palm-sized puff 'o furr at 4 weeks old from a feral mother. Any later, and she would've been uncatchable. She was fairly wild already. Lived under our bed for weeks, and was so food-crazy that she'd claw her way up my face after food (but oddly, only mine). Now she's a big, laid-back mooch who rides on my shoulder (but thankfully not my face...ouch).

Unfortunately, all of her littermates that I know of are dead. A lot of people don't see the point of fixing/vet care at all/indoor life, and as a result, the ones that I know of all became one with the roads near their "homes". It irks me so much when people keep asking "Is she still alive?"

I wonder about both my boys too.
Pushy came wandering in to a dog training facility from the surrounding fields. He was so little and vulnerable that it just breaks my heart to think of him like that. He was a friendly wee guy although he's skittish with strangers now.
Wiggies was found wandering in a Burger King carpark, taken in by a student, then given to a cat rescue, where we found him. So he must've had quite an adventerous childhood. He's extremely sociable and not at all afraid of people, so he can't have met any nasty people at least.

i wonder who or why anyone would have given up this feline goddess and how lucky i am to have gotten her.and that poor little steel cage she had to live in and how cruel that was. it makes me almost cry.

Rosie was 6 weeks old when i got her from the cage she was in with her two brothers at the pet shop, and Sophie was in a lovely big box with her mum and siblings at the home of a friend who's a vet nurse.

Gandalf thankfully I know all about how he grew up before I got him. My cousin is a softer touch with kitties than I am if that's possible.

Samwise on the other hand, I do wonder about. Same cousin found him on her porch, which means he was probably a dump job. I just can't imagine anyone wanting to dump my sweet boy. So maybe he got out of his house and couldn't find his way back. He wasn't very old though 9 or 10 weeks, I sure wouldn't let a kitten that young out of the house. He also was starving and I believe he was seperated from his mother too early because he used to suck on anything he got ahold of. I had to bottle feed him to get his weight up and of course, he had fleas and worms but other than that was a friendly healthy kitty.

Spot was adopted from an animal rescue. He was previously owned by an elderly woman who passed away. He also lived with his father, so when I adopted him, they were separated. I feel bad sometimes, wondering if he misses his dad and vice versa.
Poops, so I'm told by my BF, was found in the dead of winter almost frozen in a chicken coup. His girlfriend at the time brought her home. Things didn't work out between them and she left the cat behind. Luckily for both of them, I came around not too long afterward .

I wonder a lot about my kitties before they came to me. The only one I know anything about is Pearl, and not much about her. She was born on 7-4-00 to a semi-feral barn cat. Her first owner abused her horribly, and my daughter rescued her from that awful *itch.
Pepper was running across the road, limping, when I stopped the car, jumped out, and crawled under my car after her. I asked around the area where I found her, and found out she was probably part of an abandoned litter, left behind when the military family got transferred. The others were taken in by neighbors. She was such a scraggly, little girl nobody wanted her. She had been injured, and could not walk very well. She recovered fine, and now has the cutest wiggly run. She has grown up to be a big beautiful girl, sweet as can be.
Scooter was abandoned along with his littermates in a trailer park that was owned by a hotel I once worked at. The maintenence people were talking about seeing if a kitten could be flushed down a toilet.
Fluffy was tossed out in the parking lot of the tattoo shop my SO works at. She was our fuzzy little Christmas gift from someone. She is such a little love bug, she had to have been someone's spoiled baby. I wish I knew how old she is. She has had several heat cycles, (she will be getting spayed soon) but she is very tiny under her thick fur.

I know about Freckles because I got him from a co-worker. I still wonder if he misses the other cats in the house or his old living situation.

Bob was a stray who came with several wounds. Last fall when he was diagnosed with asthma, the vet took x-rays and found a BB gun pellet in his back. I cried over that, wondering what else happened to him. All I can do is give him the best life that I can.

I wonder about Leo all the time...the most conclusive story I have on him is that he was someone's outside cat, they moved and left him there.

Or Raphael, with his big fighting scar...how many kittens is he paying child support for?

Or Gracie who braved Katrina...how was it to go through THAT and be left there by your owner (who we did find, and he didn't want her back)

The only one I really wonder about is Katie. My other three, former feral kittens, were at least cared for at their sites before being trapped and socialized. Katie, however, was found as a tiny kitten roaming in a woman's yard. She searched everywhere but couldn't find a mama cat or other kittens. I've oftened wondered what happened to Katie's mother and hope that somehow she knows her baby girl is safe and loved.

I wonder about it all the time with my 4. I am pretty sure I know Trixie's background the 6 weeks before I got her, but the other 3.........I don't know.
I mean, how did Petals end up in a ditch in the middle of nowhere at a little over 4 weeks old, sick as a dog!!?? The thoughts drive me crazy if I think someone delibertaly got rid of her.......Tiggy and Bailey too.......running down a country road, little and sick...I'm just SOOOOO glad Jerry found them and brought them home!

Originally Posted by lionessrampant

I wonder about Leo all the time...the most conclusive story I have on him is that he was someone's outside cat, they moved and left him there.

Or Raphael, with his big fighting scar...how many kittens is he paying child support for?

Or Gracie who braved Katrina...how was it to go through THAT and be left there by your owner (who we did find, and he didn't want her back)

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Oh wow! Thank goodness your kitties all found you! I can't imagine leaving mine behind in a hurricane...let alone not being ecstatic if someone found them. Well she is better off with you (and they are all gorgeous!)


I think I know most of Lucky's background before I found her at 4weeks. She was a kitten of a barn cat (and a very large tuxedo Tom according to the farmer) who i guess wandered away from mom a little too far. I know nothing about Rambo before I found him at the shelter at 8weeks. i can only guess that he was taken away too soon from his mom since he still tries to suckle (especially when he's tired or upset).