Late last night, I went on a rescue call (this one for a dog) someone dumped at our local damn. I didn’t find the dog and there were several of us looking for her. What I did find was the leash left behind, coiled on the ground!  I was so angry- Green Peter Dam is so remote, not many people go there and we called and shook biscuit boxes and looked everywhere. I hope that someone picked him up. The FB page said he kept trying to get into peoples cars and he was starving and thirsty. At least with dogs, more people are willing to pick them up then they are cats.

I got home to find out the woman who brought me Mojo had called and she had found another kitten. This one with the sac still on it. I called her back and she brought over a beautiful little girl kitty who was also stone cold and lethargic. On the phone she said they were going to give her non-dairy creamer. I asked her please not to give that crap to a kitten and instead bring it over asap.

She, like Mojo is gray and white, shorthair and in rough shape. The woman said she found it inside the wood chipper! The mom must have put her there but with the kitten still in the sac it is clear this mom has no intention of mothering her. I am calling her Chippers-

I was up with her all night- warming fluids helped her a great deal and I am feeding her every two hours warmed goats milk with a bit of Karo syrup in it and some colostrum. I was using the feeding tube as of 2:00 a.m. this morning, but now she is suckling so I am using a small syringe. She doesn’t have the strength yet to suckle on a nipple. I have also put out a FB alert that I am looking for an actively nursing queen for her. That is the only way this little girl is going to even have a chance at survival. I am told there are more kittens but they can’t find them 🙁

It is now 10:00 a.m. and I have introduced Chipper to four separate queens with bad results. The reaction the moms have to this kitten is showing me the kitten is sick or damaged. The queens want nothing to do with them. It is at this time more prudent to keep Chippers with human rescuers versus feline ones.

Right now, prayers are my only weapons and coffee is again, my best friend