Hi everyone, I found this site by searching about care on abandoned kittens. It looks like I’ve read most of the sites you guys recommend 🙂
We had a stray have kittens at our house. It was always my intention of getting her spayed before this happened but unfortunately it didn’t happen in time. We are definitely planning on getting her spayed now as we don’t want this issue to happen again as when she showed up she was pregnant with kittens she didn’t care for to begin with.
Anyways, we never saw how many kittens she had or anything. She was constantly moving them and then the other day my husband came went to let the dog out and found a 2 week old kitten placed on one of our patio chairs. The last place we knew that she had any of them was under the porch, a place we could not access so we didn’t know if she was planning on moving them or what was going on so we waited for a while but she never came back for it.
When we saw her we left the kitten out for her but she was completely unconcerned about it. If I approached her with the kitten she got mad and ran away.
Visually the kitten is fat and healthy looking. We brought him in, made him a nest, got some KMR forumla and he took to the bottle like a little champ. He’s been peeing and pooing when I clean him, eyes are open, he stumbles around way better than I imagined a 2 week old would, even purrs when eating. His eating gets more and more robust with each feeding.
I don’t have a clue at the moment if the mama has any other surviving kittens or even if she is taking care of them is she does. She had a set earlier this year when she first showed up at our house in which she never seemed to produce enough milk for and basically rejected. She just doesn’t have that motherly instinct it seems although I was hopeful with this litter since she did seem to care initially. I can’t stress enough that we ARE getting her spayed this time so there will be no more kittens from her, unfortunately it was a money issue after her first litter earlier this year.
As well as the kitten is doing right now, I have moments of cautious optimism. Unfortunately I also feel very down at the same time because people keep telling me “well if the mother abandoned it there is probably something wrong with it and it will die anyways” so in the back of my mind I guess I feel like that this kitten probably won’t make it so I don’t want to get attached at all.
We have 2 adult neutered male cats, we are obviously keeping them away from the kitten. We have a papillon dog and he is OBSESSED with the kitten, he keeps wanting to check on it and lay beside its nest. I guess all he wanted in life was to be a kitty mommy lol
I don’t know what I’m asking here… just looking for some support/tips or something I guess…. I just want this little guy to thrive so bad and I just feel down by all the things people have said to me I guess. As much as I hate to admit it I’m probably already getting attached!
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