We simply don’t understand how people can just discard animals like trash. Take them out to a remote area for whatever reason? Just leave them to fate, or try to end their lives, as if their lives don’t matter. We never want to understand the mindset of these people. But what I, myself have learned in all my years of rescue is; they could be anybody.

We would like you to meet two kittens, who along with their mom were dumped in a remote part of the forest up on the mountain. They were found by a friend of mine. I got the call yesterday morning around 8 o’clock. They were here at the house by 10. The little Torti girl, who is now called Rain, she spent the entire day underneath the daybed. I would hear her softly crying when I went in to check on them. I ended up just putting her food underneath the bed. The food disappeared. Her stool is pretty nasty looking. Dark dark green. Making me wonder what kind of foliage she was eating to try to stay alive? This morning surprisingly she came out. I made no move to pet her or move towards her. I did manage to snap this quick picture of her before she disappeared back under the bed. I will only pet her when she shows me that she wants me to. Right now she’s trying to figure out where mom is, where her littermates are and where the devil did she end up at?

Mom is emaciated. She has no milk. She is in foster care. She will be spayed within the month, along with Rain (who we haven’t weighed yet) But if she’s 2 pounds, she will go with the others up to the FCC in Portland to be spayed.

Mom has a home! The gentleman who brought her over to me wants her. He really wanted one of the kittens, but I told him that mom is probably going to be overlooked. The kittens will be the focus of the adoptees. It’s sad, but it’s just the way it is. Everybody wants a cute kitten, now, it is our priority to make sure that these kittens land in the correct homes.

The long-haired, mackerel, tabby girl, I am calling Olivia. She is a sweetheart. But she is so hungry, I really think that she would eat my shoe if I dropped a bit of cat food on it accidentally. We have to be careful how we feed her. Little bits at a time, slowly, and surely.  I have put her into a large soft-sided cage. Although it’s highly possible that they have the same mom, they are not from the same litter. It would be foolhardy of us to think that they would get along right now with all the new adjustments they are having to make: new place, new smells, mom’s not here, new sounds getting used to the pulse of the house. It all takes time.

To say that we need kitten food, both canned and wet is an understatement. If anyone can help please do.