Posted by shar on November 14, 2003, at 19:22:39
In reply to To Dinah and Snowie, posted by Elle2021 on November 13, 2003, at 1:01:35
This may help those of you who are worried about the strength and determination of your kits.
[I am a dog person, have three of 'em, and never went looking for a kitty.]
For about three days, some weeks ago, I heard meowing. I at first thought that my sweetheart had set his computer to "meow" when something happened (like a new email message).
Well, after asking about it, he and I went around the whole place with a flashlight trying to find out where a kitten could have gotten in. No luck. But, we still heard the quite insistent meowing. Oh---what to do?
So, one day I came home and the quite loud (by this time) meowing, was under the front deck. So, as I live in a manufactored home, I grabbed my brother-in-law across the street, and he showed me how to lift up the siding on the place. Well, once that was done, this gray kitten came running out, covered with cobwebs.
OMG, I thought, as my brother-in-law backed away...what to do. This was a tiny, about 3-week old kitten. OMG again. He was wobbly, hungry, and I am not sure how come he was left under the house. OMG.
Well, it turns out, my sweetheart has a lot of experience with kitties/cats. We/he fed him from a bottle. I went to Petsmart to find out (from the vet there) what to do. We bottle fed him, and estimated his age as 3 weeks when we found him. He was even younger before!
We took him to the vet and she pronounced him healthy. Whew! Now, he is 6 weeks old, we are torn up with scratches (looks like we are cutting) and he is one dang healthy kitty. He can get out of any room we put him in, has our 3 dogs a bit mesmerized/terrorized and I love him dearly.
He is a manx. The manx has quite an interesting story, so we named him Finn McCoole, which has a history regarding the Isle of Man, where the Manx comes from. My sweetie is still sleeping with him, so he has the person contact that he needs. We never saw a mama cat.
Anyways....he has brought our clan together, and my sweetheart has stopped talking about having a baby, for which I am ETERNALLY grateful.
That's sort of a quick rundown of events, so take heart.....cat's and kitten's seem to be able to withstand quite a bit!
xoxo
Shar
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