This morning in the space of 20  minutes, we received frantic phone calls about an abandoned car filled with cats and kittens at a local park. Apparently the car had been seen there consecutive days and the callers were quite concerned, so I grabbed my stuff and flew out there.

The windows of the car were down and inside were four kittens and a mom who if she is 8 months old, I would be surprised. She’s in rough shape. Also inside the car were two young males, one neutered, one not. Well “Not” is spending the night at the vet and will be neutered in the morning. The orange boy is out in the main enclosure all by himself and mom and the kittens are in the bedroom. None of them are doing great- they are super skinny, full of parasites and fleas. Mom is matted to beat heck. She has no milk- zippo and hasn’t had in quite awhile. The mom and babies have the calici virus- each baby only has one functioning eye right now. We are soaking the eyes and applying ointment when the eye even shows a slight hole. The kittens’ eyes are still blue and when I got them out of the car it was 87 degrees outside!  They are not eating like I had hoped they would- they took a little bit- each weighs just under 7 ounces.  I can’t post pictures because my emails are still hosed up- but I will ask for prayers for these 7 kitties and also if you have a few dollars lying around- they would help on the vet bill I am still trying to whittle down. I wasn’t about to leave them there, they were not in a good place at the time.