Kitten season

Robin and Upstairs Human helped their friend find help for a litter of kittens yesterday. These five tiny babies hadn’t even opened their eyes yet. Their mama had left them in a garage, thinking they were safe and she’d get back to them, I imagine. The weather has been awful, and really, you never know what might happen when a cat goes out to hunt. Anyway, they were mewing way up in the garage and that helped Robin’s friend find them up there. She was worried about the babies because they were cold, so she put them on a towel on a heating pad and gradually warmed them.

Robin had some kitten milk that she bought for me when I was really sick (I wouldn’t even sniff the stuff), so she hopped in the car to take it to her friend for the babies. Meanwhile, she called her friend who knows EVERYTHING about the animal community in our town. She made a stop by the pet shop, where supporters of getting a dog park were getting signatures on their petition and met a woman who rescues lots of animals. They got the name of someone in town who does lots of kitty rescuing and the idea to take the babies to PetSmart in San Marcos. The rescue groups are always there on Saturday and would probably be able to help.

By the time Robin got there with the kitten milk, the babies were feeling warm again and sleeping or moving around. Robin and her friend didn’t know how to teach the babies to drink from an eyedropper, and they decided that the quicker they got the babies to a knowlegeable human, the better chance they would have.

At Pet Smart, Robin’s friend found a nice human who has nursed kitten babies before, and those kittens stayed with her.

I don’t have pictures of the kittens because all the humans were too afraid to get attached to them. I do have a message for the humans who take care of us companion animals: spay and neuter your cats.

2 thoughts on “Kitten season

  1. How very kind of Robyn to help rescue those little kittens. Our local Pet Smart has a couple of rescue groups in every weekend too. Both rescue groups are no kill shelters. Seems like Pet Smart is trying to do the right thing these past few years after getting a bad reputaiton for so long. Nice to see.

  2. Oh, gosh. That was so wonderful of Robin and UH to help the sweet little babies! As much as I would have loved to see pictures, I agree about not wanting to get too attached to them. Poor little ones. See… it was good that you didn’t drink that kitten milk! You were just being helpful and didn’t even realize it.

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