Lucky little kittens

[chemenger]

These are my latest foster kittens. They were found in a skip this morning. One of them was so cold his temperature didn’t register on the thermometer. All that was needed was a phone call, a text or a message and we would have picked them up, why put them in a skip to die instead?

[catwithnohat]

I seriously despair at the human race sometimes (quite often really) and people's inate cruelty.

[FredaFrogspawn]

You could try boiling chicken and mincing it?

[Flicketyflack]

I would try plain chicken 🍗

Gentle on little tummies.

Although tuna is tasty too 😊

[Thefemalekeithrichards]

You are really an angel for looking after them and sending us pics 😻😻😻

[chemenger]

Tuna has been the only thing they haven’t rejected in horror. We will try chicken tomorrow. At the moment I’m just relieved they’ve eaten something. They were so excited about the tuna I have to think they’ve had it before. We mixed it with a bit of water to get some liquid in them as well. Hopefully we’ll be able to wean them on to a more suitable diet.

[Thefemalekeithrichards]

@chemenger
😻😻I bet they are really hungry poor little things may get tummy upsets though - but you have already had runny poop and furry bottom situ. Hope you all manage to get a peaceful night.
Sleep well 😻😻

[TrainspottingWelsh]

Glad they've started to eat. Hopefully they're just tempted by the smell of tuna, because I don't fancy the chances of someone that dumps kittens buying their lactating cat tuna as a treat. Rather than if prior to being found they discovered an old can with going off remnants in, and that's contributing to the runny poo.

[almostfreeatlast]

OP sorry if this has already been asked but how do you get involved in doing this? Do you need to be at home full time?

[Thefemalekeithrichards]

@TrainspottingWelsh

Agreed - anybody neglecting a cat wouldn’t even buy them Asda smart price shit but I think tuna is the equivalent of cat crack if you see what I’m mean ? It’s just exists to make any cat go crazy....whether previously starving or not, So sad I think you are right it found a thrown away tin with some residue in-I cannot get that picture out of my mind now lactating mum licking a sharp dangerous can, you see sights like this when you travel and it actually put me off travelling tbh
Not sure if I will have a good nights sleep tonight as I tend to over think animal cruelty 😿

[TrainspottingWelsh]

Sorry female for the image. I wasn't actually thinking of that. Purely because they've obviously been deliberately dumped, rather than abandoned with the mum, I was considering the possibility they found some since then. Rather than the poor mum with a sharp can. (Guessing op would know already if they'd hurt themselves on a can).

I know someone that genuinely is a caring animal lover that took in a pregnant stray, and genuinely thought that if they're eating solid food 6 weeks was fine for rehoming kittens. Only due to vets advice with the skinny mum did they learn otherwise. So every chance they're from a clueless breeder that didn't research new homes, rather than the same cunts owning the mum and the rest of the litter.

[FredaFrogspawn]

Kitten fostering can be done through a cat rescue - most of them seem to be looking for new carers. I work part-time and they accepted me. It’s lovely but don’t underestimate the amount of work, especially for a larger litter. There’s a lot of cleaning up as well as the nice play and feed bits! Ask at your local cat rescue - they all have slightly different rules.

This is to almostfreeatlast

[FredaFrogspawn]

You’d usually have the mum too.

[Thefemalekeithrichards]

It’s okay - thanks
I just despair about it all
People getting so arsey about fuck all and there’s this situation
Poor little kittens and what about mum cat do you think she’s missing her kittens ?
I watch that ‘snapped’ series i totally get getting ‘snapped’ if I saw animal cruelty I’d just lose it in fact I did have an altercation with a Greek teenage boy earlier in the year that was being mean to a cat that was literally dying
Not that he understood a word -probably just as well 😏

[fancytiles]

Oh my gosh they are totally gorgeous
Thank you so much for rescuing them
Horrible people leaving them there!!!

[TrainspottingWelsh]

Me too. I'm very easy going and slow to anger as a rule but it's one of the few things I can and have lost it about. And hold lasting grudges about.

[Thefemalekeithrichards]

@ TrainspottingWelsh

Like ‘prince’ charles murdering 3,000 grey squirrels - or getting his lackeys to do it
🤬🤬🤬total rage

To OP - Sorry to go off topic

[chemenger]

I foster for Cat Protection, you don’t need to be in all day, I work more or less full time. You do need flexibility though, for trips to the vet etc. I’m a “whole house” fosterer; I don’t have a special foster room. I don’t have cats of my own, if I did the the foster cats would need to be kept separate. Large litters of kittens generally go to people with cat rooms because they’re easier to deal with if confined! Usually they’re with mum so they can be left through the day. At the moment DD is here working part time so there will be someone at home with these little kittens most of the time.
If you want to get involved with cat protection but can’t foster we have people who do fund raising, help at our rehoming days, do home visits, help with admin or help with driving (picking up cats to go to the vet, delivering to adopters who don’t drive) there’s always plenty to do.

We rehomed almost 200 cats and kittens this year, not bad for a group of about 15 people.

[chemenger]

Update, they polished off the rest of their tuna last night, I’ve given them more. We’ll start weaning them off it today but they’re so skinny that I just want them to eat. No horror in the litter tray, so that’s good, I’ll be at work today so no reports until this evening. They’re awake and glaring at me from the back of their carrier so I think everything’s fine with them.

[chemenger]

New bed

[Youngatheart00]

They are so adorable. How do they seem today?

[chemenger]

They are muc perkier today. The grey one has started hissing at us, which is very cute.

[Georgiemcgeorgeface]

Oh my. I'm in love. The grey fluffy tabby is the spitting imagine of my boy I lost a few months ago aged 17, kidney failure. I think I might need him

[IncrediblySadToo]

@Georgiemcgeorgeface. Sorry to hear about your cat🌷. But if you need this one, you BEED the pair, surely!!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Ajj yes Georgie you need both . They have been through so much already and have a lot to go through still to get back to health and socialise .

They need to be able to regale the neighbourhood cats with their tales of mis-adventure and survival .
"We was in a box , in a skip, then in some blokes overalls , then the Vets then chems gaff . And the rest , as they say , is history" (I'm giving these cats an Essex accent in my head)

[chemenger]

They will have to be adopted together (I get to choose who adopts them). The ginger is now more or less happy to be stroked as long as there is food on the go. The grey is hissy, not helped by the fact that personal hygiene is well beyond him, fluff and poo not a good combination. Having his bottom wiped and lumps of poo removed from his fur is not making him love us 😿.