basically I had five kittens and today I went in and there were four. I know that it's possible she moved/hid the one but we have the cat and kittens in my garage in a large dog run/kennel with chicken wiring all around it, cardboard, and a cover. Now that being said we used to house a feral cat in our garage and she escaped out of this (before all the cardboard, duct tape and chicken wire.... when it was just a dog run with a cover) anyway it's very unlikely that kitten got out of this or mama got out of this and somehow back in. I'm not saying it's impossible, just not likely. That being said, there's still a missing kitten. I'm wondering if she ate the kitten. Would there be any signs if that was the case? Would there be bones? Blood? Here's why I think she ate them. Mama is around a year old. She's young (I foster, btw, so these aren't my cats) and these aren't actually her babies. They got put with her because they were so young, just one week old when they came to stay with me. Mama had her babies and they were three weeks old, well the place I foster for decided to have me foster these babies with this mom and not her babies because the foster coordinator was afraid the three week olds would crush the one week olds. mama took them on with no problem, though idk how long they were together before the coordinator decided that they would be okay together. Anyway... mama stopped eating a few days ago. I tried giving her different types of canned food while also keeping one brand of hard food in there. She didn't touch any of it. Finally (after what I think was too late) we found a food she liked and I also gave her some tuna. She was small before but by now she looked really skinny. Then today I go in to check on everyone and one kitten was missing. The problem is I don't know how long he or she has been missing... I made the mistake of trying to give them alone time since they were only about a week to two weeks old... I know they needed time with the Mom. So I was gonna leave them alone. Now I feel horrible because I don't know what happened to this little kitten or where he or she is. There's no sign of him/her anywhere. Which makes me think maybe she ate him... would she have eaten him with him being around two weeks old? And would there be any signs? I don't see anything he's just gone, completely gone. No bones or blood or anything. It's sad, too... he's one of the only kittens I had named so far. He kinda looked like Smiguel from lord of the rings to me so I named him/her that.
