Abandoned Kitty

Video of an abandoned kitten I found in our currant bushes on May 23, 2010. If it hadn't been for how loud the tiny thing was crying, I would never have known it was there.

We have quite a few stray and feral cats in our area. We do what we can for them, including trying to catch the feral ones to have them fixed in the local catch/spay/release program. We have three 8 month old feral girls we've been trying to get close to since their Mommy brought them around. (We were able to catch mommy when she left them on their own. She was once again very pregnant. We were luck that the local SPCA took her. She had 5 more kittens who the SPCA are trying to find homes for. They have fixed Mommy and she has been adopted. Video of Mommy and the three feral girls the first day Mommy brought the to the "food house": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZLzIvnSd3o ).

I am certain that this little kitten was the first born of the litter of the smallest of the three feral girls. As we name every cat who turns up, whether they are in the yard for a day or decide this is their home, we call her Tiny. She was extremely friendly that day and for the first time didn't run when I got within a few feet of her, and she actually let me touch her. When I petted her, I ran my hand along her tail and my hand came back with blood on it. I new she was in labour and was able to get her into a cat carrier. One of her sisters, whom we call Patch, was also pregnant and would not leave her sister's side. We were able to get both cats into our washroom (video of them outside together not letting us get too close: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irjFqpvmsLk&feature=related ). It was about four hours after this that I found the kitten in the currant bushes.

We hand fed this little one every two hours overnight. The next morning we found that Tiny had given birth to a little black and white kitten, whom she was not taking care of. She had left it in a corner while she was cuddling with her sister in another area.

Luckly our vet was able to take the abandoned kittens and put them in the hands of people who knew what they were doing when it comes to hand feeding them.

Their mommy (Tiny) was then fixed as part of the catch/spay/release program and returned to us to release back into the feral cat colony she came from. We kept her with her pregnant sister (who has since given birth and is a good mommy) for a few days to allow her heal.

Tiny is now out and about and back with her other sister (Whom we call Little C). Still as timid with us as she was before she went in labour, but she's far more playful.

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[finance87]

That is a sin that the mother would abandon that poor helpless thing