Now for a week before last Saturday. My mom and I were going to PetSmart to get dog food for Liza when we saw a very very little animal cross the road and go into the brush. We stopped for a moment there and realized that it was a little kitten! So, we go on to the pet store and then we abandon the store idea and realize that we want to try to save the kitten. So we go home, get like 68 pounds of bug spray on (it had just rained), food and milk to entice the kitten, and long cloths, and begin our excursion into the woods!
First, we make the typical little kitty clicking noises that say "come here!" but that doesn't work, so we begin meowing...yes meowing. And whadya know! It works! The kitten meows back. This is the tool we used to locate where the kitten was going, because we couldn't see her.
There were a few times where she came out as if she wanted to eat, but then gets scared by out movements and goes back into the weeds. After about three or four of those, I finally grabbed her. And what skin and bones she was! I could feel each bone in her spine and her pelvis and her ribs...it was really sad. (And another thing, when we found her, this cat looked to young to be out on her own...maybe a little longer than my hand.) We brought her back home where we fed her cottage cheese and yogurt (those were the only things she would eat.)
That next Monday, we took her to the vet and found out she had a cold and a strange wound thing under her neck. Both of which are going away now. By the way, she weighed 1.2lbs...
Now she is doing very well. She has gained weight and feels normal now, her cold's almost gone, and her sore is healing.
She loves to be pet and purrs instantly when you enter the mudroom. We don't know if we are going to keep her or not, but if our other cat, Poppins, doesn't mind her, we may.
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