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I have a dog, named Ladybug, and she was a rescue. I picked her up off the side of the road after almost hitting her with my car, fully intending to find her owners and return her. Funny how fate works out, but she is my precious mama puppy. About six months after I got her, I realized that, during one of her 'escapes' from my backyard, she had gotten pregnant. I was ecstatic, but when the time came for her to have her babies, they were both stillborn. We were both very upset, and Ladybug was a very sad not-mama for the next few days.
I say few days because, I think day 3 after she had her stillbirths, I went to my garage to look for something, and heard tiny mewing sounds. I searched around for a few minutes, and found five week-old kittens in a box! Their mama had gotten cold, as it was the middle of winter, and had left her babies in my garage. I had left the door open the day before because I needed to air the place out, and I guess that's when she got in. I had seen the cat around the neighborhood, so I left the garage open, hoping she would come back to her babies, but she never did. About eight hour later, I decided to take them inside to warm them up. I locked them in Ladybug's travel crate with a blanket and a microwaved rice-sock, and went to go get kitten formula.
Fast forward a week, and I no longer needed to bottle-feed the kittens. Ladybug was very calm and gentle around them, and so I started letting her near them while I fed them. One day, I was feeding the largest one, Kianta, and realized that I had forgotten to latch the door to the crate. I turned around, and saw Ladybug, in the crate, nursing the kittens! I realized that she was no threat to the babies, and so I let her nurse them. They stopped needing me to bottle-feed them, and I did keep them all, albeit spayed and neutered as soon as they were old enough. I am now a proud cat-momma to Kianta, Coma, Ceian, Scott, and Piccolo.
-Cairo
I say few days because, I think day 3 after she had her stillbirths, I went to my garage to look for something, and heard tiny mewing sounds. I searched around for a few minutes, and found five week-old kittens in a box! Their mama had gotten cold, as it was the middle of winter, and had left her babies in my garage. I had left the door open the day before because I needed to air the place out, and I guess that's when she got in. I had seen the cat around the neighborhood, so I left the garage open, hoping she would come back to her babies, but she never did. About eight hour later, I decided to take them inside to warm them up. I locked them in Ladybug's travel crate with a blanket and a microwaved rice-sock, and went to go get kitten formula.
Fast forward a week, and I no longer needed to bottle-feed the kittens. Ladybug was very calm and gentle around them, and so I started letting her near them while I fed them. One day, I was feeding the largest one, Kianta, and realized that I had forgotten to latch the door to the crate. I turned around, and saw Ladybug, in the crate, nursing the kittens! I realized that she was no threat to the babies, and so I let her nurse them. They stopped needing me to bottle-feed them, and I did keep them all, albeit spayed and neutered as soon as they were old enough. I am now a proud cat-momma to Kianta, Coma, Ceian, Scott, and Piccolo.
-Cairo