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I am brand new to this site and pretty new to cats. I had a couple of outdoor cats when I was little but like the rest of the world my husband and I decided to foster kittens during lock down. Well just yesterday the two little kittens went, together, to their new home and I keep breaking down. When they came to us they were 5 weeks old and had tummy troubles and were quite sick, we weighed them every day and fed them their medicine and their pumpkin and watched them grow in to the best 11 week olds ever. They followed us everywhere, every room we were in they joined us, they purred just if we got close to them and I don’t know cat psychology but I swear they loved us so much. When the boy kitten would wake up alone he would meow and come straight to me for more snoozing and to groom my eyelashes and would stare straight in to my eyes purring and putting his paw gently on my face. We go away lots of weekends we aren’t from the country so we know we would have had to leave these cats alone or move them overseas or change our lives completely to keep them. So off they went yesterday to a really lovely family who have been sending me photos and updates and they’ve said the kittens seem happy. In one video the kittens are hiding under the bed terrified of the 2 year old kid and I literally cannot get over the pain of missing them. I feel so bad that they have had to go to a whole new home with strange new people and that they will wonder where we are and why we left them. I’m so happy they’re together and so happy the new family seems to care about them and BELIEVE me I have no idea why I feel like this I honestly never imagined I could care so much or sound so insane but I have to ask what people think. Do the kittens feel betrayed? Did they spend the night sad? Will they wonder where we went and wonder why? From what I’ve read it’s not normal to feel so so distraught, I even wanted to ask for them back but I know that’s terrible. Please, from a new cat lover send help!!
PS, I am welcoming 3 new foster kitties tomorrow but they will be my second and last as my new landlord doesn’t allow foster pets and I’m moving in a couple of weeks. I hope they will help me to feel better but worry I’m setting myself up for more heartache and stupidly feel like I’m betraying the two little kittens we loved soooo much. Thanks for any replies in advance
I am brand new to this site and pretty new to cats. I had a couple of outdoor cats when I was little but like the rest of the world my husband and I decided to foster kittens during lock down. Well just yesterday the two little kittens went, together, to their new home and I keep breaking down. When they came to us they were 5 weeks old and had tummy troubles and were quite sick, we weighed them every day and fed them their medicine and their pumpkin and watched them grow in to the best 11 week olds ever. They followed us everywhere, every room we were in they joined us, they purred just if we got close to them and I don’t know cat psychology but I swear they loved us so much. When the boy kitten would wake up alone he would meow and come straight to me for more snoozing and to groom my eyelashes and would stare straight in to my eyes purring and putting his paw gently on my face. We go away lots of weekends we aren’t from the country so we know we would have had to leave these cats alone or move them overseas or change our lives completely to keep them. So off they went yesterday to a really lovely family who have been sending me photos and updates and they’ve said the kittens seem happy. In one video the kittens are hiding under the bed terrified of the 2 year old kid and I literally cannot get over the pain of missing them. I feel so bad that they have had to go to a whole new home with strange new people and that they will wonder where we are and why we left them. I’m so happy they’re together and so happy the new family seems to care about them and BELIEVE me I have no idea why I feel like this I honestly never imagined I could care so much or sound so insane but I have to ask what people think. Do the kittens feel betrayed? Did they spend the night sad? Will they wonder where we went and wonder why? From what I’ve read it’s not normal to feel so so distraught, I even wanted to ask for them back but I know that’s terrible. Please, from a new cat lover send help!!
PS, I am welcoming 3 new foster kitties tomorrow but they will be my second and last as my new landlord doesn’t allow foster pets and I’m moving in a couple of weeks. I hope they will help me to feel better but worry I’m setting myself up for more heartache and stupidly feel like I’m betraying the two little kittens we loved soooo much. Thanks for any replies in advance