I know this because I am one right now. The boy down the street that found the kitten named it Snickers. I am guessing his girlfriend has something to do with this and when I call him to tell him about visitation, I'm going to tell him that if he doesn't come up with a better name that I'm going to start rumors that he's (Ummm p.c. moment) sensitive. So this little freaking cat wants to eat all of the time. I've figured he's 2-3 weeks old and he's eating formula from a dropper. He's getting better at walking and crawls all around me, night and day. His meower and purrer works really well and he never shuts up, unless he's asleep which is a lot more often than I am, now. At 5 a.m. my daughter took over and I don't know took over for her because she was helping some during the night. I'm pretty impressed that in one day he is using the litter box correctly but has only gone pee. No accidents and he was digging one hole but going pee where he was standing. Now he's getting it into the hole and burying it. So I look it up and find out that the mother cat licks the anal and genital area to stimulate it. I told my daughter that could be her job.... Ack. He's asleep right now and I'm typing really quietly. He sleeps tangled in my hair and burrowed into my neck. He starts licking my neck and biting it when he's hungry so I think he's definitely identified me as his mother. I wonder what happened to his mom and siblings. Not to be mean but if I had a litter, I'd run away from home. But I won't because I think he already has abandonment issues.
**If you are offended by the usage of words like "pee" you should stop reading now because this cat is dead to the world asleep and I need to pee.
Update and you will think I am making this up. I thought I was being punk'd but my youngest daughter came in crying with a Walmart bag. She was at a church activity and they took some stuff to the dumpster and found 3 newborn, STILL WET from birth baby kittens. I just found the city animal control officer who is very awesome and she told me she had a mother who had lost her litter and was very much in pain and she's suffering from the loss. We got the babies out there and she rolled over and let them nurse. THANK HEAVENS!!! I told her I'd be coming out to meet her and help foster a bit, but this put me at nine cats. My oldest would like to volunteer there and we could work well together. I need to learn how to foster a bit better and this is going to be a fun charitable thing for me to do. But it's a relief to have help after I get them eating and ready for adoption that I have some help and I will try to help adopt them out and the shelter is non-euthanasia. I can take care of babies past the colostrum age, teach them to litter train, then work on adopting them out. There's also a van that sterilizes them. New cause, YAY!!! But it's exhausting.
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