Young rescued feline and litter are survivors
Mother and 9 kittens now need to find good homes
You hear of so many animals that are rescued and they are all special, but I am sending along a story of one very special cat named Nadine. A young, frail, black stray cat was noticed by a kind person who started feeding the little feline and quickly made a phone call for help. The young feline was weak, a skinny bag of bones and extremely malnourished.
Upon contacting Gwen Thompson, who does feline rescues, the kitty was taken to Gwen’s non-funded sanctuary, where she was given food and shelter. Gwen soon realized that small bump on her belly was a sign of pregnancy and due to her weak condition the cat was placed with a foster family to bring her back to health with special individual care. Two weeks later, Nadine gave birth to nine black kittens, of which some were preemies — some of them so tiny they were pink from lack of fur and required around the clock care. The other kittens were also less than a normal weight and it was unclear if they would survive.
The devoted foster mom spent the next four weeks syringe feeding all nine kittens every two hours. This way, the weakened mommy could recover and have enough milk to feed all of them and not lose more weight herself.
Thanks to a kind person, a rescue and an extremely devoted and caring foster mom, the litter and mom are now healthy and ready for adoption. Now we are hoping for kind families to give these very deserving kittens and their proud mother, who herself is less than one year old, a forever home. They were hand fed, extremely socialized and all super friendly.
To make this a complete upbeat story, the end result is for them to get a much deserved chance in life. After being born with little chance of survival this is a miracle in itself. If you can open you hearts and make this happen, please contact Gwen at (613) 258-2622 to arrange to view and adopt these little survivors.
If they all got adopted then that is what I would call a truly happy ending.
Update: Three weeks after they were born, all nine kittens remain up for adoption. Thompson took them to last weekend’s Pet Expo. “People would look at them and say how cute they were, then they’d go to the next booth and pay $1,800 for a Bengal kitten that didn’t even have its shots,” she said. She says the kittens are victims of ‘ black cat syndrome.’
“People just don’t want them,” she said. “But in my experience, black cats are the smartest of them all. These kittens are all so beautiful and very, very social.”