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I don't know if I am allowed pasting a link into a thread or not but this is a sweet but sad story of a rescue of a tiny kitten...its mother knew
there was something wrong and that is most likely the reason
it was left. They made a wonderful effort to save the little baby but
as you will read it started getting sick soon after. This story might help
someone dealing with the emotions that goes along with finding
or rescuing a very young baby kitten and dealing with it getting
sick. It helped me realize that although we want to do everything
we can to save them, sometimes they will get sick anyway.
Even though it may seem cruel that a mother would leave
a baby, she knows whether there is something wrong with it or not.
I don't know which seems worse because this kitten got sick
and suffered as it got older even though it did experience lots
of love and a great home. It has to be heart wrenching to go through.
I amazes me at the same time it saddens me greatly how the mother
knows...

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomfr...%2FTyrone.html
 
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I myself experienced this sad event. My son found 2 ,2 week old kittens under his friends porch and brought them home knowing I would take them in. My vet kept one and I kept one. Neo went everywhere with me in a little sack straped to my chest so I could feed him every hour. He was fine and grew to be a perky loveable baby that had stolen my heart. When he was 7 weeks I woke up and he was dead. I suffered so much pain! The autopsy showed nothing wrong. I was terribly heart broken. So, despite the fact I already had 3 cats I found a purebreed cat to fill my hearts hole and to assure, hopefully, good health. Gohan was just the thing to fill that hole. He is a munchkin and I actually got a female munchkin later. The moral of my story is that even though the mother may have known the kitten was going to die, we should still try to help abandon animals. It cost me over 800.00 to let Neo die but his sister is healthy and happy.And I got 2 new babies that have become my pride and joy.
 
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I think we must weigh the options...when we should fight and when we should allow nature to take it's course. I had a kitten that died of pneumonia....we tried everything...but in the end, it was her mom that helped her cross the rainbow bridge. She knew that this kitten was suffering and did what she felt was in the best interest of her little one.

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Originally Posted by TNR1

I think we must weigh the options...when we should fight and when we should allow nature to take it's course. I had a kitten that died of pneumonia....we tried everything...but in the end, it was her mom that helped her cross the rainbow bridge. She knew that this kitten was suffering and did what she felt was in the best interest of her little one.

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What did she do? Do you mean she smothered it, or attacked it? I'm really just curious. I have never had any of these expiriences. As a kid any cats we had my mom always fixed and I never had a cat on my own until three years ago (well a year before that I got a spayed retired ragdoll and afew months before that a male moogie that I neutered a few weeks after getting)when i got a ragdoll queen. She has had two litters without any problems and is expcting her third soon.
 
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Originally Posted by celestialrags

What did she do? Do you mean she smothered it, or attacked it? I'm really just curious. I have never had any of these expiriences. As a kid any cats we had my mom always fixed and I never had a cat on my own until three years ago (well a year before that I got a spayed retired ragdoll and afew months before that a male moogie that I neutered a few weeks after getting)when i got a ragdoll queen. She has had two litters without any problems and is expcting her third soon.
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She smothered it. For weeks she had been watching me try to feed her little girl antibiotics and going to great lengths to save her life when in fact, this kitten was getting weaker and weaker and finally her mom was just like "enough already". This cat was a stray who had come to the shelter that we had pulled..she had 2 bright, big healthy girls who found great homes..but her 3rd kitten was just so sick. I was really angry with her at first...but Gaye helped me to understand that she was doing what was in her instinct to do and looking back, there really wasn't much we could do for Matilda at that point.

You are very fortunate to never have experienced a fading kitten. Most rescuers I know can tell the story of their kittens that just passed on...or the ones that were so sick they lived a very short time.

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That's too bad but that's how they are. It's amazing they (mothers) know, when vets can't tell. I worked at a kill shelter so I have seen kittens that have died or some thing like that, but usually we came into there to a dead kitten. For the most part, instead of stress on mom and kittens (which almost always died) and tying up a cage for months when they usually died anyways, the shelter would just spay a pregnant cat or if it was too far put it down. It was pretty harsh at first until I realized that being in that invironment with some times sick cats, the kittens usually fadedl. Now, some times there are more people willing to foster them, but if not, they put it down. So if the mother ever smothered a kitten I was never there to see it.
 
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He was such an adorable baby. But those things happen. Life is not in our power to give and shouldn't be in ours to take, but to love and nuture while we are here.

I have seen seemingly healthy animals die. And I have seen animals that I had no hope for surviving to pull through and live. Comet, my road-kill kitten, showed everyone that God can do things when even the vets give up.

Don't ever underestimate the power of prayer and love and caring and compassion. These can make a difference in any life; no matter how long they are here.
 
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My very first rescue which also became my very first kitten/cat was a similar situation. Twenty-something years ago, I found a mother cat who had delivered kittens in my backyard. I didn't bother the nest area but she moved them leaving one. I found her in my neighbor's yard and moved the lone kitten to the nest. Once again, she found a new nesting area and left the same kitten behind. This time, I couldn't find where she had moved the babies.

So...I took the kitten in and rushed her to my vet. for an evaluation. She came-up FeLv positive and I was told she had little chance for survival. Well, I just wouldn't stand for that!! I bottled fed around the clock, slept with this little baby on my chest night-after-night and literally lived around this litte one.

Long story short...Obession became my 1st kitten and grew into a gorgeous jet-black cat who lived 5-years filled with love & kindness. Although her life was short due to her terminal illness, looking back, I would not have changed one thing!! For five lucky years, she lived a spoiled life filled with human kindness and total love.
 
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Originally Posted by leesali

My very first rescue which also became my very first kitten/cat was a similar situation. Twenty-something years ago, I found a mother cat who had delivered kittens in my backyard. I didn't bother the nest area but she moved them leaving one. I found her in my neighbor's yard and moved the lone kitten to the nest. Once again, she found a new nesting area and left the same kitten behind. This time, I couldn't find where she had moved the babies.

So...I took the kitten in and rushed her to my vet. for an evaluation. She came-up FeLv positive and I was told she had little chance for survival. Well, I just wouldn't stand for that!! I bottled fed around the clock, slept with this little baby on my chest night-after-night and literally lived around this litte one.

Long story short...Obession became my 1st kitten and grew into a gorgeous jet-black cat who lived 5-years filled with love & kindness. Although her life was short due to her terminal illness, looking back, I would not have changed one thing!! For five lucky years, she lived a spoiled life filled with human kindness and total love.
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That is awesome! she had five wonderfull years she never would have had if you hadn't interfered.

Obession.... I like that! I think I have found a name for one little kitten that will be born soon, now all I have to do is find names to go with that for the rest. Wonder how many she will have?
 
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Originally Posted by celestialrags

That's too bad but that's how they are. It's amazing they (mothers) know, when vets can't tell. I worked at a kill shelter so I have seen kittens that have died or some thing like that, but usually we came into there to a dead kitten. For the most part, instead of stress on mom and kittens (which almost always died) and tying up a cage for months when they usually died anyways, the shelter would just spay a pregnant cat or if it was too far put it down. It was pretty harsh at first until I realized that being in that invironment with some times sick cats, the kittens usually fadedl. Now, some times there are more people willing to foster them, but if not, they put it down. So if the mother ever smothered a kitten I was never there to see it.
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I do not agree celestialrags. I think it is cruel and inhumane to kill a cat simply because it is preganant. I had a kitten in my last litter the had Flat Chested Kitten Syndrome. I did not expect him to make it, but now alomst a year later he is a perfectly normal frisky adult siamese.
I believe that all kill shelters should be closed down for good.
 
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Originally Posted by megmar6853

I do not agree celestialrags. I think it is cruel and inhumane to kill a cat simply because it is preganant. I had a kitten in my last litter the had Flat Chested Kitten Syndrome. I did not expect him to make it, but now alomst a year later he is a perfectly normal frisky adult siamese.
I believe that all kill shelters should be closed down for good.
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I didn't say that I agreed, I didn't run the shelter so I hadn't made the choice. They house 40 cats, that would be a good idea shutting it down now wouldn't it let those cats run around uncared for and breeding too, that's real smart!
If people took care of their own animals shelters wouldn't have to take care of their messes and make these choices. Fact is there are too many cats and kittens and not enough homes if people can't handle it too bad, some one has to do some thing about it.
Have you ever had to watch a litter of kittens slowly fade away in a shelter cage due to stress and diese? Every one died and mom had to go through all of that for nothing, kittens died, she held up a cage so others couldn't have it, she had to dry up get spayed heal from that and then try and find a home months later, when she could have just been spayed and heald up and adopted and allowed room for another cat.
 
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