so i was left with three orphans, 10 days old at the time of the finding, with no special milk for baby cats and not the best knowledge on how to handle literal babies. i decided to at least feed them regular milk ("it's better than not feeding them at all" was my thought process), i put them in a box with a few rags and a hot water bottle for warmth and that's how i'm trying to sustain them at the moment
if they live through the weekend i found a shelter not too far from here and i'm hoping to take them there and hopefully give them a life
if that doesn't work, i don't know; i can't really do much for kittens this young and none of my friends have cat mums that could take a few more under their belt
they have very little chances to live and i'm only prolonging their suffering if it all doesn't work out but i really do not want to resort to mercy killing right away; i just want to hold onto that sliver of hope and give those kittens a chance to exist
if they live through the weekend i found a shelter not too far from here and i'm hoping to take them there and hopefully give them a life
if that doesn't work, i don't know; i can't really do much for kittens this young and none of my friends have cat mums that could take a few more under their belt
they have very little chances to live and i'm only prolonging their suffering if it all doesn't work out but i really do not want to resort to mercy killing right away; i just want to hold onto that sliver of hope and give those kittens a chance to exist
she never showed me where she kept them (the previous batch she did bring to me eventually) so i just assumed they were just chilling somewhere safe or that something unfortunate happened because i actually looked around where they were supposed to be and found absolutely nothing, didn't even hear a thing
so after i saw her body i got a bit concerned about the litter, they were just a week old kittens at that point; but i had no whereabouts on them at all and i haven't heard them meowing so i just assumed the worst and left it at that
on the same tuesday i got badly sick and spent the next few days either in bed or inside, barely going outside at all, so i haven't seen or heard anything, naturally
until yesterday. yesterday (friday) i was helping push a vehicle around and i heard faint meowing, my cat heard it too and instantly pinpointed the source, it turned out that the orphaned kittens (three in total) were still alive, just hungry. one fell off a ledge and landed in some hay that wasn't exactly too warm so it was a bit low when it came to body temp but i managed to fix that to the best of my abilities
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