Kitten Rescue 911
Five kittens were in a tree that did not yet have there eyes open. A little girl told our friend Lisa about some kittens falling from a tree near an abandoned house in our neighborhood. The place is well known as a safe-house for ferrel cats. Lisa took the abandoned kittens and worked with my wife to nurse them.
Today I woke up and Angel asked me to take her back over to Lisa’s house. One of the kittens was having a tough time breathing. We came back as there wasn’t anything we could do but wait. Later in the day, he died and one of his siblings was starting to have the same problems.
Angels sister came over and took the kittens to the vet to have them checked out and see if anything could be determined. We are all just hoping that everything turns out ok.
Update
The second kitten has also passed away. The vet was able to see the four kittens before the last one died. It turns out that they all have respiratory problems. Angel told me that the two that have died so far are the same ones that had fallen out of the tree that there mother dragged them up into. The three remaining kittens are now on medicine and quarantined.
Tags: Kittens, Emergencies, Abandoned, Pets, Fostering, Nursing, Death
September 20th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
I’m at my mothers house. A third of the origonal 5 kittens was having breathing problems and my Older sister ran him strait to the vet. fortunatly the vet was able to save him. we baithed them finaly as they are more stable it seems. *accept the white one* but they needed to be de-fleaed realy badly. using a humidifyer and a few boxes *one erealy big and one not so big* we made them a cozy little incubator that should help them get over this nasty sick they have. The white one is still makeing funny gurgle and cough noises but we are helping him along. Once they are healthy and not sick they will coem back to our house so i can finish raising them and Lisa and i will find them homes.
September 21st, 2005 at 12:49 am
There’s nothing quite as sad as dead kittens.
September 21st, 2005 at 2:14 am
Kitten Number 3 has passed.
November 6th, 2005 at 11:27 pm
[…] My wife agreed with her friend to help foster five sick kittens who had not yet had there eyes open. A vet who saw them gave us some antibiotics to help with there respitory problems. One by one, the kittens died and caused much heart ache. We were down to the last kitten, Bandit. […]