Once again, this website that was constructed with love and care has turned out to work to the positive in saving a kitten.
The gal who contacted me shared her story. She heard a small kitten crying at night and went outside searching until she found the wee one. It was skinny, scrawny but not knowing what to do right away, Heather decided to leave the kitten. A common mistake made by so many people who think that mom will return to get the kitten back. The truth is, the mom abandoned the kitten in a place where predators would find it so it wouldn’t endanger the rest of the nest. Finally, Heather couldn’t handle hearing the cries anymore and went to fetch the kitten.
Once she had it inside, she was in a dilemna. This was the first abandoned kitten she has ever encountered and she didn’t know what to do. She turned to the Internet and found kitten-rescue. She made up a cardboard box with a heating pad, mixed up a batch of kitten glop and then fired off an email to me.
Her concern (and it was viable) was the amount and the size of the fleas on the kitten was killing it. Which is exactly what was happening. I told her to bathe the kitten with a few drops of Dawn liquid dishwashing soap and warm water which will stun the fleas, comb them out with a baby comb or flea comb and then use tweezers to crush the buggers before dropping them into a jar of hot water and flushing them away.
I just got a phone call from Heather, the kitten has survived and has been adopted into another family who had a queen still nursing. The kitten was readily accepted and it is clean, fed and rid of fleas. Heather wanted to thank me for kitten-rescue. She said that it was a “kind website, full of good information and a lot of love.” That made me smile-that is why I created it out of love for these creatures that some in the world would rather throw away and forget about them.
Thank you to all the Heathers out there who care enough to interrupt their lives and administer to the many needs of these kittens.