Rest in Peace poor little kitten

[Debi]

An update to this post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6692752&mesg_id=6692752

Kitten died sometime between 11:30 last night and 5:00 this morning.

When we got home from watching the fireworks I checked in on kitten. He was sleepy and weak but he had used the litter box and his tummy was growling. I thought it was a good sign.

Although he didn't eat much more than 1/2 ounce of formula I figured he was just tired and would be hungry by morning.

Mr. Debi checked on kitten in the middle of the evening and he was out of bed in front of the bowl of formula and water dishes.

I found him 1/2 in bed and 1/2 out and cold this morning.

:cry:

I guess the bastards who hate cats won this one. Hope the fuckers are happy. :grr:

[China_cat]

1. Shit

[Debi]

3. Yeah

Part of me wishes now that I wouldn't have cleaned his wounds and caused him unnecesary pain. Had I known he had only a day to live I would have just held him and scratched his ears for 24 hours. Bastards

[flvegan]

2. Aw, damn. I'm sorry.

You tried, and you gave that kitten a short period of love that he likely wouldn't have known.

[Debi]

5. He deserved so much more - like not being pitched from some assholes car

or to not be abandoned before he even knew how to eat. :grr:

I'm just empty inside.

[LeftyMom]

4. Ah shit.

Poor thing. Thank you for trying, and if you ever figure out who the dumpers are, I want a piece of 'em while they're still sorta recognizable.

[Debi]

7. Bring rope, sand paper and a pellet gun

Fuckers.

[1monster]

6. At that young, his chances of survival were really slim since he was already

pretty much starved. I don't think there was anything you could do more than you did.

If you find yourself needing to feed a baby kitten in the future, you may want to try an eye drpper instead of the kitten bottles, because the bottles are so hard for them to suck from.

You just have to be very very careful not to give them too much at a time.

At one time, we had ten cats due to my husband bringing home dumped cats.

[Debi]

9. We fostered 10 kittens last year at this time

5 from a stray that came in and had her kittens on a rainy night (on our sun porch) and 5 more from a momma stray that was hit by a car as she tried to move her kittens across the street (I searched our ditch to find the kittens...and lucked out finding them after a long night outside). One momcat and 10 kittens was too much so we supplemented by my syringe/bottle feeding the kittens and helping mom groom them x(. We were able to find homes for all of them(including mom).

My husband thinks that the infection on his wounds was probably further along than any of us thought, and he agrees the kitten was probably too far gone when he found us. Damn it!

[1monster]

38. We kept all ten. One died of congenital congestive heart failure and

two have been killed probably by raccoons in our neighborhood.

The first one (Amber) was my kitty and she loved me as much as I loved her. But after she was spayed, she couldn't bear to be around the other cats. She was terrified of them for whatever reason. She would take off and be gone for days, even a week or so at a time. Then she would come home, and I'd carry her past the other cats to my bedroom where I fed and watered her. She would sleep with me and go out the window in the morning. She'd stay around for a couple of days and then disappear again.

One day, she just didn't come home again. About a year after that, our neighbor was in the vacant lots across the road from us and found a cat skeleton and just enough of the brindled calico fur to recognize her.

Three months after that Mr. Squeeks disappeared from our yard. This surprised me because he always stayed very close to home. Three weeks after he disappeared and after (and frantic trips to two animal shelters), some neighbor kids came by and told me they had been playing in the same vacant lots and found Mr. Squeeks in the same condition as Amber.

So we now have seven cats. I make sure all of them are in by dark these days.

Here is the story of Elvis. http://journals.democraticunderground.com/1monster/1

We all do what we can, but sometimes that is not enough.

[Left Is Write]

64. My mother once had ato feed a litter of puppies with a dropper.

She said it works pretty well.

She used the same method to feed an injured baby bird.

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Safe passage.

Might he be free from sufferings. Peace and comfort to you and yours. :hug:

[Debi]

10. At least he was comfortable - on a soft cushion with fleece around him

he had fresh water and formula - I had bathed him with a warm wash cloth (just like a momma cat would so) and we scratched his ears and rubbed his belly after we tried to feed him. If I'd know he was going to die I would not have hurt him by cleaning his wounds and I would have stayed home from the fireworks to hold him (and I would not have gone to bed - I would have stayed with him). :hug: Thank you - I hope he is in a good clean warm and happy place. The poor baby deserves no less.

[begin_within]

11. I was supposed to get a kitten, but...

...it was not meant to be I guess. My neice and nephew found a tiny kitten, starving, dehydrated and near death, but they nursed it back to a basic level of health. They offered it to me because they already have 3 cats, 2 dogs and a rabbit, and they couldn't take on any more responsibility. I accepted, and they told me they would drive the 90 min. to bring it to me. But 10 days passed without a word from them, and finally yesterday I found out that they took it to the pound instead, because it had ticks. So I never even met the kitten, and that's probably a good thing because I might have fallen in love with it and then it would be harder for me if they had turned it in. I had been planning to post pictures of it here and solicit suggestions for its name. But, I guess it was not meant to be.

[Debi]

16. I'm sorry for you and for the poor kitten

:hug:

[begin_within]

29. Thanks very much.

I'm over it now, I was a little upset because they didn't tell me anything, and for 10 days I was anticipating getting a kitten, and they didn't even tell me they gave the kitten to the pound. I only found out while talking on the phone to one of the kids. That was the weird part about it. I have a cat so at least I'm not catless. But I appreciate your kind thoughts!

[Missy Vixen]

12. I'm so sorry

Our first cat was named Merlin. He had a magical name because he was a magical cat. Like your sweet kitten, he was thrown from a car window. Luckily, Merlin was probably older than your little guy and fairly scrappy. We brought him home from an animal rescue organization. (He chose us. He was in the back of the cage; I wanted the cute gray cat with the white paws instead. DH picked Merlin up, though, and Merlin attached himself to DH's chest. What could we do?)

We lost Merlin in August of 2001 due to fibrosarcoma. Until then, though, we spoiled him rotten.

I hope that your little guy is curled up in the sun and being groomed by our Merlin at the Rainbow Bridge.

Julie

[Debi]

17. Hope he is too

Both deserve it!

[Guava Jelly]

13. poor kitty

I'm sorry :hug:

[Debi]

18. Me too

Life was too short and too painful.

:cry:

[applegrove]

14. Sorry. You did your best.

[Debi]

19. Thanks, I hope the little one knows I tried and I'll keep trying each time

some moran does it again and again and again...

[Mz Pip]

15. You did the best you could

That's really all any of us can do. You gave him love and a safe place, but he may have had injuries that were just too serious.

Good for you for trying.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Debi]

21. My husband thinks his infection was in his entire system and there

was really no fighting it with such a small malnourished little body. :cry:

[Mz Pip]

25. I rescued 8 kittens

a few years back. They all survived except one. SHe'd eat and play but she never seemed to grow much. One night she just died. In retrospect I think she may have had some intestional malfunction that kept her from absorbing nutrients, but there would have been no way of knowing that. Although she was tiny, she appeared healthy in every other way.

Still it's hard. We got attached to her in the few weeks that we had her. It doesn't take much for them to steal our hearts.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Debi]

26. Good for you for trying

Had the little one for just over 24 hours, it still hurts.

[stuntcat]

20. yah^^ you did good

just helping the little guy.
I'm sorry :hug:

[Debi]

22. Thanks, I'm sorry too - such a sweet creature didn't deserve all that pain

:hug:

[davsand]

23. I had to go find my fat boy after I saw this.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry for you for the heartbreak and I'm sorry for the kitten that he found finally kindness from humans when it was too late.

My fat boy Chaucer was a kitten born to a stray. The kittens and Mom were taken in by some kind people who kept them in their house until they were old enough to be separated from the Momcat. THEN they took them all to the local animal shelter to be placed up for adoption...

Our companion animals bring us love and devotion in Little furry bodies that are built to last a shorter time than our own. We are gifted with them and entrusted with their care in return for that love. I am sickened when that gift is rejected in such a callous way.

Blessings to you and your family for trying to help make a difference.


Laura (human companion and walking lap for Chaucer D. Cat)

[warrior1]

24. I am so sorry

You did the best you could.

[Debi]

28. Yeah, thank you..I'm sorry too...hope the little one is warm, safe and full right now

wherever he is :hug:

[Debi]

27. Your kitty looks like the mommacat stray we have out under our deck

she has a sister that has black on her face (she has white on her face). We have four healthy-happy kittens running around right now. Hope to find them homes (they're about 8 weeks right now). Love em!

[nuxvomica]

30. My friend Amos had a similar start in life

Fortunately he wasn't as malnourished as your little friend but he had the scraped, bloody face that was indicative of being tossed from a moving car. There are plenty of options if you have an unwanted animal but abandoning them isn't one of them. Amos lived for 16 years after he found me and he was among the finest, dearest friends I have known. The idiots who do this sort of thing to kittens will never know that kind of friendship but that should be the least of their punishments though in my mind it would be the most devastating one.
I offer my thanks to you and your husband for caring for that little one. I offer it on behalf of all the abandoned souls in this world for whom the extension of your caring hand has reduced their aggregate suffering by some small but precious and hard-won measure. What you have done is wonderful and I'm sorry for your loss. :cry:

[Pushed To The Left]

31. I'm sorry to hear about that

but at least the kitten lived his last hours with a caring, loving owner rather than alone. :hug:

[Debi]

58. Yeah, hopefully he just fell asleep and passed on - he was inside

warm and in a cozy bed. :(

[Liberal Veteran]

32. Damn it all.

Poor baby....thank you so much for all you did. You did your best.

[Debi]

59. If he would have lived I'd have asked you to let him join your brood!

:hug:

[JackBeck]

33. Oh, no.

This breaks my heart. Poor little one.

:cry:

[Debi]

60. I know. I keep thinking through the short time he was with us

from when I first picked him up Friday night to when I opened the door Sunday morning and watched his body waiting for him to take a breath...not much time, but enough to have this break my heart.

[judaspriestess]

34. awww how heartbreaking

you did the best you could do, poor little baby. No telling where the rest of his siblings are either.

[Debi]

61. Hopefully in homes

with humans who love them.

[judaspriestess]

35. don't know how I got a double post but let me add

All we can do is continue doing everything we can to spay and neuter as many dogs and cats to stop this senseless treatment of animals.


You were that little kittens guardian angel here on earth. I'm sure that little baby passed knowing what it was to be loved.

[Roon]

40. Breeding should be banned too eom

[ThatsMyBarack]

36. It always makes me sad when a cat dies.

But a baby kitten....:cry: x 10

[Debi]

57. Yeah - he never knew what it was like to be happy and warm and full

and loved. At least except for his last 24 hours :cry:

[UrbScotty]

37. Oh dear.

:hug:

[Debi]

56. Yeah

:hug:

Thanks

[usaftmo]

39. This breaks my heart.

Even though the kitten was thrown from a car by somebody, the last part of his life he was treated with lots of love (which all animals, not just kittens) deserve.

You did the right thing taking care of the kitten, and although you might not feel this way...I'm proud of your handling of the situation to make him feel better and loved.

[Debi]

55. Thank you, it's not our first time - just the first time it didn't work out

:cry: poor little kitten.

[racaulk]

41. Oh no!

That whole situation makes me so sad and angry. I really don't understand how some people can be so cruel and inhumane. That's just so horrible!

Thank you and your husband for doing what you could, Debi. I'm sorry you couldn't save him. :hug:

[Debi]

54. So am I

but, like it was posted upthread, he's no longer in pain or hungry now. :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

42. I'm so sorry.

Poor little baby. :cry:

And for you and Mr. Debi: :hug:

[Debi]

52. Thanks, wish we could have done more or he could have found us sooner

He would have been fearless after all he'd been through.

[BreweryYardRat]

43. Dammit.

I'm sorry. :hug:

If you ever find the fuckers who threw him out of that car, let me know. So I can help butcher them.

[Debi]

51. You have an open invitation

And their last moments should be like the little kittens...but without a human caring for them :grr:

[wildhorses]

44. ~

:hug:

[Debi]

50. Back at cha

:hug:

[Richard Steele]

45. At least he spent his last hours knowing someone cared about him.

That's a lot more than many of us helpless little mammals -EVER- have, y'know?

[idgiehkt]

47. amen

it was a wonderful thing that Debi did.

[Debi]

49. I know, wish it took away some of the heartache.

Thanks. :hug:

[Critters2]

46. Oh God.

This is so sad. You did so much for him, but the damage was done, apparently.

I'm torn between my admiration for you and Mr. Debi; and my anger at the bastards who hate cats.

I fostered kittens for the Wright County Humane Society when I was over there. I lost one to feline leukemia, so I have some sense how you feel.

I'm sorry it ended this way. Thank you for being there for him :hug:

[Debi]

48. One good thing came out of it - I know that Waverly Pet Rescue is still up and running

So, the next time some asshole dumps a kitten/puppy, I'll have somewhere other than the Humane Society to take them. :hi: Thank you for that!

[Critters2]

62. You're welcome.

Sorry you had to find out this way, though.

If it should happen again, and Waverly isn't able to help, let me know. I helped to organize the HS in Wright County (Eagle Grove/Clarion area) and the cat coordinator there is still one of my closest friends. I'm sure she'll help!

Thanks, again, for being a good Samaritan!

[LaraMN]

53. That's awful!

That kitty was lucky to have someone kind like you to care for him in the interim, at least.
You're a good egg, sweetie.

:hug:

[Debi]

65. Well, then, it's like looking in the mirror...

Mr. Debi laughed his butt off about your recent JackNM story - says he know EXACTLY what you're talking about!

[Left Is Write]

63. Oh, that breaks my heart.

:(

[Debi]

66. Mine too - it's so weird now because all the bedding has been washed

and the extra cans of formula and left over kitty litter are stored in the basement (ready for the next drop off x(). He was just here on Friday and now.....*sigh* I just keep thinking that he's happy and healthy wherever he is now.

[Wcross]

67. You did the best you could Debi, thank you for trying.

The "bastard" that hates cats didn't win this one. It will come back on him ten-fold with bad karma. Hopefully it will be some very painful karma............

[Hayabusa]

68. Poor thing

Bastards...